I don’t know where else to put this-
Re “trafficking”.
@Loren Pechtel asserts:
It's vastly overreported because most "trafficking" busts are just prostitution.
I say:
Trafficking is vastly underreported because the vast majority of instances of trafficking are never reported, and never result in trafficking busts. If they did, there wouldn’t still be trafficking.
We don't have overall numbers, but we can see that the vast majority of "trafficking" arrests are not trafficking. As a percentage it's clearly way overreported.
Unlikely to be true.
Loren states “trafficking is over reported” as if it’s an unarguable fact based on a lot of prostitution arrests that supposedly result in trafficking charges, confidently but namelessly asserting that all trafficking results in arrests, and since most arrests [for trafficking] end up litigated as prostitution charges, there was never any trafficking involved.
That is illogical on the face of it.
No. If it was trafficking why only prostitution busts? It's cop math.
Plus, Loren is in LV where many or most prostitution charges are filed to protect the legal prostitution racket.
Huh? No, it's not about protection, it's a combination of how well organized the outcall places are (a sting will only catch one and then everyone else will stay away) and that by leaving them alone unless there are other problems reduces the other problems.
He has not given a source for his specious trafficking statistic, and even if he did, the point remains that unless he’s a trafficking kingpin of some sort, he has NO IDEA how prevalent trafficking really is, because the vast number of instances do not result in arrests - for prostitution or anything else.
I'm saying that when they claim to have busted trafficking it almost always is obvious that it's just ordinary prostitution. When you keep seeing false claims of X figure that X is at best rare because if they had real examples of X they would use them rather than the false ones.
