{"id":37511,"date":"2011-07-17T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37511"},"modified":"2011-11-02T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:08:00","slug":"u-s-anti-trafficking-enforcement-is-an-abysmal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/17\/u-s-anti-trafficking-enforcement-is-an-abysmal-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Measurement of Anti-Trafficking Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/anti-trafficking-enforcement-in-u-s-is-an-abysmal-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineheldman.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/14\/anti-trafficking-enforcement-in-the-u-s-is-an-abysmal-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline Heldman&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that\u00a0U.S. citizens and policy-makers have a hard time imagining that modern-day sex slavery is\u00a0prevalent in our country, and an even harder time understanding that the vast majority of trafficking victims here are U.S. citizens. In fact, the State Department estimates that, of the world\u2019s 27 million trafficking victims, about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-06-27\/politics\/human.trafficking_1_human-trafficking-combat-trafficking-ranks-countries?_s=PM:POLITICS\" target=\"_blank\">100,000<\/a> live in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/cshti0810.pdf\">a report from the U.S. Department of Justice<\/a>, only 2,515 investigations of suspected incidents of human trafficking between January 2008 and June 2010, leading to 144 arrests\u00a0so far. This means\u00a0investigations were opened on only 2.5 percent of human trafficking cases.\u00a0Federal\u00a0efforts to address human trafficking in the U.S., it is clear, are simply not effective.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., however, still gets a top-notch rating from the State Department, which just-released the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/g\/tip\/rls\/tiprpt\/2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Trafficking in Persons Report<\/a>, which evaluates worldwide efforts to fight modern-day slavery. The State Department uses a three-tier system. Tier 1 countries are in full compliance with the TVPA, Tier 2 countries are making \u201csignificant efforts\u201d to comply and Tier 3 countries are making no efforts whatsoever. The U.S.\u00a0is ranked as\u00a0Tier 1, which begs the question: How useful is this rating system if a 2.5 percent prosecution rate gets us to the top?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/18.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37515\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/18.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/18-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/06\/27\/human.trafficking\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of giving us useful information about what countries are most effective in prosecuting trafficking, this map simply gives the illusion that the U.S. is doing a bang up job.\u00a0 If we were more honest about U.S. efforts, though, it would expose the U.S. as less than the ideal society we think it is. In fact, federal\u00a0efforts to address human trafficking are\u00a0an abysmal failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Ms. and Caroline Heldman&#8217;s Blog. I suspect that\u00a0U.S. citizens and policy-makers have a hard time imagining that modern-day sex slavery is\u00a0prevalent in our country, and an even harder time understanding that the vast majority of trafficking victims here are U.S. citizens. In fact, the State Department estimates that, of the world\u2019s 27 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,304,291],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-the-state","tag-sex-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41382,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions\/41382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}