KVRR Local News It happens all over North Dakota, including small towns.
January 9, 2021
NORTH DAKOTA January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and organizers in North Dakota are helping inform the public of the severity of the issue.
“When you look at human trafficking it’s a criminal act, and it’s also what we call human rights violations,” ND Human Trafficking Taskforce’s Dr. Analena M. Lunde said.
Human trafficking affects many people, and the circumstance of it all can be much more closer to home than you may think.
“It looks like runaway kids, what it doesn’t look like are people standing on the street corners selling themselves, we don’t see that here like they see in the big cities maybe they don’t so much anymore,” Bismarck Police Department’s Sgt. Mike Bolme said.