Bodies on the street. In the hollywood vice squad sergeant who knows and his men are gearing up for a major operation at western. Embassies. On the way back raven to want to. Write. Their mission tonight takedown the prostitutes customers in a rush their pimps. Also will confirm a prostitution violation with the suspect and when violation has been obtained you see outrage will get a predetermined signal. The Police Officers are going to do something that would be unthinkable in france go undercover posing as prostitutes. These agents known as undercovers will encourage. Dimmers to pay them and catch them in the end they will also try to be recruited by pimps. They expect. Approximately 1517 arrests and arrests pimps and or human traffickers. Western avenue is a popular spot for sex workers the 2 undercovers take their position the operation is extremely dangerous they could be assaulted by customers or threatened by pimps carrying weapons this is why searching windows has set up ingenious security measures. For those in the box me jaysus one of the plainclothes Police Officers will pretend to be homeless hidden under a Cardboard Box so on top of having the uniforms in the area we also have you know various you know you see operators thats up to them to be as creative as they can be. This individual here in the car in front of us with the hood open thats action on the cover officer. Just in front of the 2 Police Officers another armed officer is ready to intervene in case things get out of hand the prostitutes are very quickly approached. Theyve only been out there for 30 seconds now we have a car stopping to talk to the Sergeant Munoz has a live feed of their conversations through the phone. He expected. Thanks it. Sounds like theyre trying to they go there they go she sexually the money a simple verbal agreement between the prostitute in the customer is all it takes to clear. If i as an offense the girls indicate to the customer park a little further away. So thats the plain clothes officers cover isnt uniformed officers nearby carry out the arrests. Straight now youre just being. Detained for prostitution investigation demist and you know. These arrests will continue well into the night. I think was for oral sex but we told them that because she didnt get into the car that he thinks hold Nothing Happened while know it you can still commit a crime even without the theme of getting in the car in california prostitution customers or johns risk up to 6 months in prison and a 1000. 00 fine however these johns arent the only people charged munoz is concerned about here she says theres just too the line of cars waiting. He wants to identify the pimps these pimps and often recruit girls directly from the street the driver of this luxury sedan approach christina one of the undercover officers. This is a possible pam and he exchanged phone numbers. Where on the cover so what the on the cover is going to do if they want to communicate with them they can be something that can be done tonight or it could be darn within the next couple of days. Its going to take place around. The result 18 arrests and contact with a potential sexual trafficker the operation has been a real success for us. Argemone and the hollywood vice squad at the station christina is quick to contact the driver of the sedan. The way he was talking to her it wasnt like the usual guys that approach us and are just like a lot of sex or i was oral or anything like that it was very kind of big to me he wanted more from us so not really saying ok ill control over it completely but influencing me to keep working out on the street what were trying to accomplish is to see if we can get a band or a violation. Fornia inciting an adult woman to prostitute is punishable by 6 years in prison. Los angeles the 2nd most populated city in the United States with over 4000000 inhabitants and hotbed of prostitution and. On the city sidewalks in apartments but also in hotels around the airport thousands of women are prostituting themselves under the control of pimps who are often gang members. This issue is affecting more and more underage girls on a daily basis totally. Less risky than trafficking weapons or drugs the Sexual Exploitation of children is a highly profitable business for organized crime and underage prostitute could bring in between 150200000. 00 a year 10000 dollars to a week that is a week. Maybe we were given the rare opportunity to follow the hollywood vice squad who fight this modern slavery on a daily basis if i get your other car youre going to jail. Theyre Hunting Ground western avenue. But come out here just blatantly walk up and out west. How quickly this kid. Surgeon munoz is leading a team of around 20 officers in the field working undercover they are trying to catch prostitutes and pimps by posing as customers. The post office theyre going to. As soon as underage victims are identified these undercover officers and the case over to the Human Trafficking unit 60 tech to have specialized in long term cases probably looking at about 36 open cases right now aaron and his colleagues use some surprising investigation methods to catch out traffickers. We call this are. Going through cellphones fake profiles online and on social media you know if youre going to exploit a child here in los angeles were going to come out with thanks to these techniques he has managed to pull 120 minors out of prostitution in just a year got 4 young youve got to be freezing i am. T. K. Is a survivor she was forced into prostitution throughout her entire teenage years. Probably 12 to 18 hours probably about 12 or 15 different pants. Its an exceptional immersion by ellys elite Police Officers who are leading the war against sexual trafficking without mercy. Make it easier for you go to jail to. Parent lives in a residential suburb around 15 miles away from los angeles. This former professional snow. The border has now been working in the Human Trafficking unit for 12 years. Aaron and his wife have a new member to their little family. Center came early and we have a new addition to our family. Our baby girl arrived when we could go. Every day this father of 2 attempts to save minors who are being sexually exploited recently becoming a father has only reaffirmed his determination you know work in child sex crimes its a very difficult position to work. You know the stuff that im exposed to on a daily basis the images that we see you know the interviews you hear the stories of these children of what they go through and its heartbreaking you know obviously i would never want my daughter to ever be you know exposed to any of this so its still a motivator for me. However aaron doesnt have a lot of spare time for his family. They are not i. Think they get a call yesterday. Even on a day off. Erins unit is located at l. A. P. D. Headquarters in the heart of the city the 60 tech tims working in this department are very well be on average 100000. 00 per year in order to fight this war against sexual trafficking they have a surprising weapon up their sleeve they use fake social media accounts as a means to catch pimps i have 2 undercover accounts. Instagram that i do so this is my 1st account can i pose as either a 16 or 17 year old female this particular. Female that i use is actually a Police Officer here fairly pretty. And we use different type thing i will do it showing her with money resource show that she gets to travel a little bit in california the legal age for sex is 18 years old however aaron is still contacted by dozens of men you know 24681012 i probably have 25 or 30 direct messages from different bands and chapters this particular person who goes by i get paid the trust no one has asked me what school you go to i told the school and then the very next one was how old are you to be honest with you i am 16 years old saw her and said that to him and well see if your response. To recruit young girls via social media or dating apps the pimps 1st try to seduce them some dont hesitate in sending graphic images i dont ask for him though send a picture of a penis. These vulnerable and easily influenced girls will then fall into the pimps. For our real victims needs these rural girls that are out there they have very low selfesteem so when Something Like this gets into the picture Little Things i told them how cute they are youve got a nice body youre so smart it builds a girls confidence at some point obama say you know what i think youre the guy for me and then all you know all come mess with the oh. So we continue to chat. Tonight aaron is going to try to trace back these men who are exploiting young girls his team will be working in a joint operation with the hollywood vice squad. U. S. Secretary of state is on a mission he claims the world must change china or china will change just how should we interpret this the cold war to be waged against meeting this is also implying force regime change china is certainly a major global competitor but he said now. There was competition or free Market Competition in drugs in america the price but thats the beauty of free market capitalism the fact that you dont have free market capitalism for drug prices in america shows you have an entrenched. Or monopoly and they gouge its price gouging and hes right to try to dismantle that but without that kind of premium for these drugs for these companies that however i dont see how theyre going to command the multiples they do on the stock market so hes hes got to hes saying hes either going to take a 50 percent hit on the stock market corey is going to lose a lot of people. Were going to be conducting this investigation that well. Coordinated supervisors its going to be Sergeant Munoz were going to have to interview the central victims and once we determine that they are victims of Human Trafficking or pandering then were going d to attempt to locate and identify their their pimps. One of the officers has selected the online profiles of the prostitutes that appear under each as of 2017 they are now considered as victims under California Law to help them get out of the game these undercover officers are going to trap them by posing as potential cost. This is what were looking for right here she looks very. Good you can tell shes using social media that to me this kind of screams that. This has the potential to be a juvenile victim right here. In the market for it is nothing that you would believe but the. Police will be operating from this luxury hotel by x. 80000000 travelers who pass through this area every year and the dozens of surrounding hotels are a godsend for pimps. A lot of the girls or lines girls at work prostitution. May know the hotel very well they know that most of the men that call them in this area are business men who are usually from out of town so a lot of times are undercover as well act as businessmen from out of town. 20 or so agents are now inside to adjoining rooms in this hotel. So that room is where they will be doing the undercover operation and then the undercover when they get a violation and then we take the female into custody they bring her back in here and you will do the interviews and. The undercover cop is already texting a girl who is potentially underage to gain her trust he is telling her about his evening kind of gave her a story so that its credible that i was at a strip club and i wanted to. So now that i spoke spoke to her she says shes going to be out here in 20 minutes and hopefully we can get her to come out and then how much was the amount of her really 300 dollars for an hour or for 50 for 2 hours. Ok for example for you get her. Reach for hotels are 2 or 3. Times higher than the going rate on the street Police Officers have Police Cameras around the bedroom for the operation so they can discreetly observe what is going on in the next room. So. They are doing a negotiation we can hear it and help us with our investigation later on down the line if we have to go to court their evil the use of video to show that the officer did make an agreement the girl a Police Officer on watch at the Hotel Entrance alerts the team of the young womans imminent arrival at all if she starts. To. Pull out cases. So this is going to be the way to get. Their government. Police officers bump into was suspicious woman in the corridor or perhaps the prostitutes madam. The Police Officer who is posing as the customer comes out of the bedroom pretending to take a phone call. Youre. Like we man thought. Here. For. The 1st. Call you. Know i didnt know but they dont think its such. A young woman is taken into the adjoining room where shes making out like this is her 1st arrest. Shes taken 200. 00 from the fake customers got it. The Police Officers now want to find out if she is working under a pimp. So like thats. Whats making this whole. You know braver going to pass off. Its impossible to know whether she is working for herself or for someone else despite her young appearance she is in fact of age as shes very youthful and appearance yeah but they verify shes 20. The police managed to arrest a 2nd prostitute later that evening but she is also of age. They got 2 girls tonight it was a good night they got to unfortunate in getting minors and then one girl was 20 and then a crow was 24. And theyre not being charged if theyre doing it on their own. So they will get. Taken to the jail theyll get a citation and released and doubled up there all the way. Being charged with prostitution means these 2 girls risk a 1000. 00 fine and over 40 Hours Community service unfortunately the police havent managed to arrest any underage girls tonight but their efforts to save these young girls from a life of prostitution will soon be rewarded. Between tonight operations the hollywood vice squad are taking advantage of those rare moments of down. Time to release some tension kids early evening and surgery munozs day has already been pretty busy. He came in early to help at the detect this. Endeavor and should have a couple gay members who were actually responsible for shooting most of the shootings throughout all the wood and some of the surrounding areas so we got them in custody so were here at 4 in the morning for you know were going to start right in the city they will go all night you know addressing the fission issue is officially a finite ofeibea long. As hollywood for you usually long nights. Surgeon munoz will spend most of tonight patrolling the streets of east hollywood in search of underage prostitutes in his undercover car he will head down western avenue. Crushing koreatown with its local businesses and motels but also those more infamous hollywood streets that are ran by gang members surgeon munoz sometimes stumbles upon some rather unusual scenes during the night. Every night at around 10 pm the regular ritual of scantily clad prostitutes coming out onto the street begins to come out here just plainly walk. Wester and you can see how quickly things just get more growth yeah theres theres about 56 Different Girls with it about a 4 block area. The soliciting is completely uninhibited for everyone to see so you could say that monitoring traffic waving cars blowing kisses at people on. See their dress the way their dress or attire its part of that. Suddenly the surgeon notices a sex worker who appears very young. Spring everybody out in. The sun now shes here on the corner hes here right here because of the street we have enough undercover officers in the area theyve got to try to get her attention to see if she decides to get into one of the cars. One of the plainclothes officers approaches her in his van after a short conversation the young woman agrees to get in. Such an alley and with an one question declined an hour at all shes trying to screen him and as we can see the wife know theyre going to be driving away. Surgeon who knows sturge detail them leave calls in the surrounding area are waiting for the signal from undercover cops before intervening. League. Okays got to have a violent. Making. The arrests take place at a gas station. The c. C. T. V. Cameras and lighting mean it is safer for both parties that. Once again the young woman doesnt have any idea. So these girls often lie to us about their identity no i. D. And their age even though shes saying shes 20 years old see her appearance is that of a june also. One of these arrests of under age looking girls continue well into the night. You can get. Just typical friday night in a hollywood initiated alley. More often than not these girls arent carrying id theyre taken to the station to verify their agents. In the parking lot one of the girls catches the attention of the officers shes 5 months pregnant. At the precinct surgeon munoz recognizes the Young Pregnant girl this is the 3rd time shes been arrested. Them 1st that was our 11th and then we go to. Be here her last arrest was when she was 17 years old and she is now potentially of age but the Police Officers are sure to try to get her salary at the last hour there to see if this was in charge of the children actually. She actually jumped out of the car ran out for ran away from the c. F. S. 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