How Well Can Law Enforcement Address Sex Trafficking?

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Oakland has inaugurated a billboard campaign aimed at ending sex trafficking. Photo courtesy of the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office

By Sukey Lewis, KQED News Fix

A sexual exploitation scandal that has launched investigations into misconduct across multiple Bay Area police agencies has some questioning how well law enforcement is positioned to combat sex trafficking and prostitution.

So far, about 30 police officers are alleged to have had some form of sexual contact with the young woman known as Celeste Guap, who told reporters she had sex with some officers when she was only 17.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

For more on the issue of sex trafficking, read the San Francisco Public Press Spring 2012 special section, Human Trafficking in the Bay Area
 

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