Anti-Human Trafficking Bill Would Send FBI Agents on Trail of Pimps

Source: Washington Post

Local vice police officers, who for decades have led the law-enforcement crackdown on prostitution, could soon have unwilling partners: FBI agents.

The Justice Department is fighting legislation that would expand federal law to cover prostitution cases, saying that the move would divert agents from human trafficking crimes. Although local police still would handle the vast majority of cases, Justice officials said the law's passage would force them to bring cases in federal courts as well.

Some anti-trafficking activists and members of Congress say the federal government should be involved in policing prostitution. Prostitution is a social evil, they say, and increased law enforcement can only help the campaign against it.

"It's mind-boggling that the Justice Department would be fighting" the bill, said Dorchen Leidholdt, a founding board member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, an activist group pushing the change. "They have the power to pick and choose the cases they want to prosecute. They don't have to prosecute local pimps if they don't want to."

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the latest one I saw said that one cities round up 4.1% of the girls tested hiv positive.
I THINK IF YOU PLASTERED THAT ALL OVER THE NET WORKS THAT WOULD CERTAINLY HELP SLOW DOWN THE BUSINESS. AND CONDOMS AREN'T 100% EFFECTIVE. IN NEW YORK 75% OF THAI MALES VISIT PROSTITUTES
REGULARLY OF THESE ONE IN 5 TEST HIV POSITIVE=20% AND 75% OF THESE CONTINUE TO USE PROSTITUTES.
JUST GOOGLE FOR MORE INFO: SCAAARRRYYY!

DRUG TRANSMITTED AIDS the major cause of prostitutes AID's infection

DISEASE TESTING WOULD REDUCE DISEASE, prostitution is not evil..sex slavery is.. and the pimps in the white house do nothing about this epidemic.

because of the 'no child left behind' program there are a lot of young women with so other skills to make a living other than prostitution, speaking from my experience as a juvenile parole officer

The DOJ has extraordinary discretion in which cases it pursues and prosecutes.

...this is a very serious problem and the DOJ needs to take it on.

I was just reading that the average that a person becomes a prostitute is 13-That's slavery. Perhaps people should put as much effort into amnesty for the child victims of prostitution instead of sending them to jail. Then perhaps they might dare come forward and point their fingers at the men and women enslaving them.