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. pimps will drive down the street
she was i d say, i know she was well under five feet tall. she wasn t developed. and she was with a mentor who was probably 13 years old. 13 or 14 if i remember. and we were shocked. oakland pd knows that moments like these where they can isolate the girls from their captors are the only window of opportunity to try to offer young women help and services. i mean, some of the stories i ve heard are just horrendous. for hoffman, every story is a heart breaker whether it s the 10-year-old sent out to work the streets for her mother or the 14-year-old run away who ran into the arms of a man she thought would love and protect her only to discover a life of daily beatings and sexual abuse. we recognize these ladies and truly being victims and so we re trying to educate them and get
and sell themselves. it s a street where men force young girls to sell their bodies for cash. a lot of men early in the morning, they re going to work, so they ll stop and buy a prostitute. and then when they re done, they just go to work. so, a lot of them tells 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 to the track. let s just go talk to them. she s 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 sec? 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
about to make her last proposition of the night. how much for two of us? just quick head. oh, that s going to be a 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 didn t 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
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. pimps will drive down the street in vans, jump out, and snatch girls up and throw them in the car. they ll take you to locations hours from oakland and make you