Trafficking

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  1. striker

    striker Road Train Member

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    Uber and Lyft push it to rideshare drivers all the time, I've partially done their online classes.
     
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  3. striker

    striker Road Train Member

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    It's not always about the big busts, often times it's one or two girls at a time and the busts never make the news. Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen, I'd more likely to suspect the numbers ebb/flow on a regular basis.
     
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  4. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    It's not so much about underage kids, although it does happen. It's more about the prostitutes and the pimps and the pimps forcing the hooker to work to "pay off debts" that never really get paid off.

    All trafficking, except the rare and true tied to a bed slave situation, would go away with a simple law change. Make what happens between consenting adults not be illegal. If a woman that is being abused is allowed to go to the cops without fear of going to jail herself, she would be much more likely to.
     
  5. Hazmat Cat

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    I think I signed up but it may have just been an episode of law and order svu
     
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  6. Elroythekid

    Elroythekid Road Train Member

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    Pilot in Kentucky I75, late at night back row looking for a spot. A car comes along and the interior light goes on, guy in his 50's ish? And an 16-18 year old girl. He cuffs her and she lifts up her shirt for me to have a look at the merch.
    I stop and get out with my tire thumper and he bolts. No plate, I called cops with a description of a silver 4door sedan chev I think.
    It happens. And those doing it should be shot. I'll provide the lead.
    And the same for the excrement who purchase.
     
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  7. Dennixx

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    All of our tractor's have the sticker on them.
    We had a video we watched 2 years ago.
    Have not seen anyone being trafficked yet, but we all remain vigilant...lol
     
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  8. buzzarddriver

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    Is a school bus trafficking children, because we all know they are taking the children somewhere they don't want to go?????
     
  9. jamespmack

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    Unfortunately its a big deal with the interstate system. Toledo Ohio being worse.

    On a side note, my town of 19k people now has a facility for them, signs hanging right out front downtown. Walking by asked the Mrs. If it was a brothel? You already know the look I got. But I smell gov. Money with the set up over here.
     
  10. striker

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    There's a video that pops up on Youtube and Facebook about Trafficking, and one of the things they show, is the person who crosses the border illegally with the promise of a better life, has their papers taken away, and shoved into a some hotel or someplace and forced to work. We had a Saudi couple nailed here in Denver a few years back, they were expats living/working here with little kids, they brought some woman over, took her papers, took her life, forced her to be a maid/slave/indentured servitude. Somehow she got away, couple were arrested, IIRC, both are serving many years for human trafficking and other crimes, and will be deported when released.
     
  11. Dockbumper

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    Those are the only 6 words in your post that I don't believe. It seems we don't deport foreign criminals anymore, we just keep IMPORTING THEM!
     
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