profession a booming sex industry that today experts say thrives on young girls threatened and coerced. for traffickers, it s never been safer to make millions. the men who sell women can hide themselves behind a girl they advertise on the internet. we take it very seriously. we ve been working with the fbi for years. this is a craigslist operation. the oakland, california police department trafficking task force has conducted internet sting operations for years. to find exploited girls, they simply follow the internet trail. this girl i want to get to. she s 17. it s thursday night and oakland pd s human trafficking task force gears up for an undercover sting. the undercover officers will be out there in these vehicles in high prostitution areas cruising around. tonight oakland s task force will send six new undercovers out on the streets to pose as johns looking to pay cash for
morning are going to work. some will stop and buy a prostitute and then when they re done they just go to work. so a lot of them tell the guys at work, hey, guess what i did on the way to work kind of thing. so it spreads, you know, word of mouth. five nights a week as the light of day fades debbie hoffman of oakland pd s see care unit heads out to the track on a mission to seek and find the forgotten girls who sacrifice their health and welfare to pleasure johns for the brutal men who control them. hey, honey. can i talk to you for a second? it may take months or years but for a decade hoffman s been there trying to save one life at a time by simply letting them know she cares. okay, honey. take care. hoffman says parents who believe it will never happen to their daughters should listen closely to the story of 19-year-old britney. on every corner you go to you will see a pimp.
no sting operation, oakland pd s debbie hoffman works the street as part of opd s see care unit. she is the human equivalent of a life line trying to reach the unreachable. human trafficking is happening right here in our own back yard. just happening from county to county and from state to state. this is my cell phone number. okay. i want you to call me when you get out. okay? even if you don t want to get into a program. just let me know you re okay. okay? hoffman tries to make an emotional connection with the young girls in an attempt to wrest them from the iron grip of their pimps. they ll probably make around maybe a thousand dollars a night off of one girl. and if he has six girls that s $6,000 in one night. hoffman says many of the 13 and 14-year-olds she sees are american girls trafficked from normal homes. the youngest girl i ever saw out on the street was ten years old. i ll never forget her. she was wearing a white jacket, which was filthy dirty.
they re a medium like a phone book, through which messages are dispatched. federal law protects websites from content posted by users, but hiding behind the first amendment is wrong. nazi glorified memorabilia are not auctioned off on sites like ebay anymore. why then should we have human beings auctioned off as entertainment? many believe the only real way to impact what amounts to modern day slavery is to crack down on the buyers. the oakland police department runs sting operations to bust johns by sending female officers undercover. on this night, four squad cars and 12 officers watch and wait for suspect eed johns. the decoys have barely hit the corner, and already, johns are taking the bait. yellow mustang. starting up and heading northbound. one after another, the men
hundred. i don t know all right. where should i meet you? all right. walk over there. i ll meet you. moments later officer saleda tells officers to grab the young woman for soliciting prostitution. in the old days it was a sweep. you just swept these girls off the street and dunt give a damn. you threw them in jail and you weren t attacking a problem. you weren t solving the problem. the girls would keep coming back out and keep doing it. by attacking the pimps and making them pay, they don t victimize other girls when we get them and the girls get the services and we can save one or two, then we ve done our jobs. it s modern day slavery. it truly is. four nights a week, sting or no sting operation, oakland pd s debbie hoffman works the street as part of opd s see care unit. she is the human equivalent of a life line trying to reach the unreachable. human trafficking is happening right here in our own