by Jim Kouri, CPP
Human trafficking is a transnational crime whose victims include men, women, and children and may involve violations of labor, immigration, antislavery, and other criminal laws.
To ensure punishment of traffickers and protection of victims, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), which is subject to reauthorization in 2007. The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) lead federal investigations and prosecutions of trafficking crimes.
The Government Accountability Office reviewed strategies, reports, and other agency documents; analyzed trafficking data; and interviewed agency officials and task force members.
Since the enactment of the TVPA in 2000, federal agencies have investigated allegations of trafficking crimes, leading to 139 prosecutions;provided training and implemented state and local initiatives to support investigations and prosecutions; and established organizational structures, agency-level goals, plans, or strategies.
For example, agencies have trained new and current personnel on investigating and prosecuting trafficking in persons crimes through their agency training academies and centers, provided Web-based training, and developed and disseminated guidance on case pursuance. Agencies have also sponsored outreach and training to state and local law enforcement, nongovernmental organizations, and the general public through a toll-free complaint line, newsletters, national conferences, and model legislation.
Finally, some agencies have established special units or plans for carrying out their antitrafficking duties. Federal agencies have coordinated across agencies on investigations and prosecutions of trafficking crimes on a case-by-case basis, determined by individual case needs, and established relationships among law enforcement officials across agencies.
For example, several federal agencies worked together to resolve a landmark trafficking case involving over 250 victims. However, DOJ and DHS officials have identified the need to advance and expand U.S. efforts to combat trafficking through more collaborative and proactive strategies to identify trafficking victims.
Prior GAO work on interagency collaboration has shown that a strategic framework that includes, among other things, a common outcome, mutually reinforcing strategies, and compatible polices and procedures to operate across agency boundaries can help enhance and sustain collaboration among federal agencies dealing with issues that are national in scope and cross agency jurisdictions.
To support U.S. efforts to investigate trafficking in persons, the Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded grants of up to $450,000 to establish 42 state and local human trafficking law enforcement task forces.
BJA has funded the development of a train-the-trainer curriculum and a national conference on human trafficking and taken further steps to respond to task force technical assistance needs.
Nevertheless, task force members from the seven task forces we contacted and DOJ officials identified continued and additional assistance needs. BJA does not have a technical assistance plan for its human trafficking task force grant program.
Prior GAO work has shown the need for agencies that administer grants or funding to state and local entities to implement a plan to focus technical assistance on areas of greatest need. BJA officials said they were preparing a plan to provide additional and proactive technical assistance to the task forces, but as of June 2007 had not received the necessary approvals.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
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VeteransAbroad said,
They’ve broadened the term to denote not only the true and horrifying trafficking of unwilling or blackmailed victims of slavery like forced prostitution, but also to denote legitimate international dating sites that rub feminists the wrong way because they talk about foreign women being “traditional” or “non-feminist”.
If men in positions of authority, like you apparently are, are not aware of the blatant and rampant misuse of the term “trafficking”, then Marxists feminist groups like the Tahirih Justice Center will get more and more federal funding (against the Constitution which never says anything about the federal government funding women’s shelters that spread propaganda).
In addition, social conservative males need to be very careful about going along with the Marxist feminist attitude that all voluntary prostitution is “trafficking” because the woman might be poor. Helping women out of poverty who would otherwise practice the oldest profession must not be confused with “combatting trafficking”.
Let’s take a recent development: in Finland this year, feminist groups tried to get a law passed making it a felony for a man to purchase sex from prostitutes. Finnish conservative politicians, unlike their American counterparts, were immediately aware that this was a power play by feminists. So the conservative politicians decided to beat them at their own game: at the last second, the wording of the law was changed to say that it was illegal to buy sex from “trafficked women”.
The police and courts quickly established that “trafficked women” meant someone who was doing something against her will or under duress or without her full mental capacities.
A gang was quickly arrested and charged under the law for having pimped a mentally retarded woman.
The feminists, meanwhile, had voted against the law because it was changed at the last second to say “trafficked women” when they really wanted to make it a felony for a man to buy sex from a woman who knew what she was doing and wanted to do it. In Sweden, where the parliament is 51% women, it is a crime to buy sex and they have beautiful female cops trying to entrap men there.
The Finnish and Norwegian men want nothing of that kind of entrapment in their countries. Can you blame them?
Men in the USA need to be educated about what is going on and how feminists misue terms like “trafficking” to fulfill agendas that have hatred of males at their core.
August 5, 2007 at 1:58 pm
The Vicar said,
August 5, 2007 at 7:12 pm
veritas said,
August 5, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Roger Knight said,
First they haved to explain to the 23 regular citizens drawn from the voter’s registrar what the elements of the crime of peonage, 18 U.S.C. §1581, are, or what the elements of the crime of involuntary servitude, 18 U.S.C. §1584, are.
Then they have to try to explain how the human trafficker is a criminal but the support enforcer is not!
August 5, 2007 at 11:30 pm
VeteransAbroad said,
I can go on with the informative comments on the anti-male Bush Administration’s misuse of the word “trafficking”:
1) In 2006, Condi Rice infuriated the German people by declaring Angela Merkel a “Sex Trafficker” simply because some silly, sad German brothels are now legal. Condi put her foot in her mouth big-time by suggesting that the men who came to Germany to watch soccer would really be coming to exploit sex slaves (in reality, the men really did come to watch soccer and the brothel business dived during the six week tournament). Via Senator Sam Brownback they got the Vatican to insult Germany as well.
What the sanctimonious busybody Christian Marxists did not understand is that the recent “legalization” of prostitution in Germany effectively destroyed it. No more can a college student or bored housewife make a few thousand euros at “free market” prices for a week or two on a lark. Now there are a few chain-smoking older professionals at these sad places. These women would, themselves, report any infusion of beautiful young competition from poorer countries. In the end, one Polish man was charged during the World Cup with trafficking for trying to bring some willing women across the German border in a van when it was obvious that they were prostitutes by profession who had no intention of registering with the tax authorities or take the required HIV test. The German government did its job while the Bush Administration, via Condi Rice, preened like a peacock accusing everyone, especially European males, of being less moral than they were.
2) Just last week, the US Congress voted to humiliate the Japanese people yet again by “demanding” for the 57th time that the Japanese apologize not for the millions of murders committed by the Japanese Imperial Government in WW2, but for the Sex Slave Brothels of that war.
The Japanese men, who weren’t even born when these atrocities took place, know this to be an attempt by American feminists to bring them to their knees and beg them for forgiveness.
The Japanese ministers are saying that these shenanigans are damaging the relationship between Japan and the USA.
But the feminists in the Bush Administration (and possible coming Clinton Administration) are probably assuming that they can get a new pro-feminist Japanese Government elected by getting Japanese women to turn against Japanese men. Just as Madeleine Albright really did not care about pissing off the entire Muslim world with her anti-male talk, the Bush women honestly do not care how Japanese, German or Russian men think about their attitude.
Getting the 57th apology for the Japanese Slave Brothels is just a progess yardstick for the Bush women. They want to smash the patriarchy world-wide and they see Japanese men as a big target for their wrath.
I should also explain who some of these Bush feminists are:
A) Karen Czarnecki is a “Republican” who is Director of the Dept of Labor Office of the 21st Century Workforce. She wants to help shape how workplaces are in the future and makes a point of having a male secretary. The woman is bitter and arrogant in her relations with men. She slandered all internationally-oriented American businessmen last October when she claimed that they date foreign women “because they want a subservient 1950s robot.” If she had slandered any other “minority” in American society that way, she would have been out of a job the next day.
B) Michelle Bernard, director of the supposedly anti-feminist “Independent Women’s Forum”. Michelle was appearing with Karen Czarnecki in a PBS Broadcast debate last October about socalled “Mail Order Brides” (see link below). She and Karen were supposed to be arguing for the “conservative side”. But she ended up saying at the end of the clip that she was “terrified” by the “possibilities for abuse” that international dating websites represented (Marxist feminist viewpoint).
Watch the following clip of our Republican female “allies” selling American men down the river:
http://www.onlinedatingrights.com/forum/index.php?topic=559.0
August 6, 2007 at 2:36 am
veritas said,
femi-prop=Feminist agitation propaganda!!
August 6, 2007 at 4:43 am
veritas said,
August 6, 2007 at 4:47 am
VeteransAbroad said,
August 6, 2007 at 5:27 am
mruffolo said,
August 6, 2007 at 6:05 am
mruffolo said,
August 6, 2007 at 6:10 am
VeteransAbroad said,
The Tahirih Justice Center of Virginia is one such organization. Readers should write their Congresscritters, or better yet, speak to a Constitutional lawyer, about getting this organization defunded.
August 6, 2007 at 7:15 am