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 customers to pay them and catch them in the end they will also try to be recruited by pimps. approximately 1517 arrests and arrests. and are 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 that's up to them to be as creative as they can be if it's a blend this individual here in the car in front of us with the hood open that's actually not a 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. they've only been out there for 30 seconds and now we have a car stopping to talk to the sergeant munoz has a live feed of their conversations through the phone. and expect to.

thanks for the detail it. sounds like they're trying to they go there they go. the money a simple verbal agreement between the prostitute in the customer is all it takes to classify as an offense the girls in the key to the customer park a little further away. so that's the plain clothes officers cover isn't uniformed officers nearby carry out the arrests. straight now you're just being. detained for prostitution investigation. you know. these arrests will continue well into the night. i think was for oral sex but we told them that because she didn't get into the car that he thinks hold nothing happened while no if you can still commit

a crime even without the female 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 aren't the only people charged munoz is concerned about here she says there's 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 they're on the cover so what the on the cover is going to do if they want to communicate with me something that can be done tonight or it could be done within the next couple of days. cross

going to play what are. the results 18 arrests and contact with a potential sexual trafficker the operation has been a real success for a surge among those 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 wasn't 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 i'll control every absolutely but influencing me to keep working out on the street what we're trying to accomplish is to see if we can get a pandering violation. california 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 side watch 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 under-age prostitute could bring in between $150200000.00 a year 10000 $1.02 weeks. now. as

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 catch you judge another guy is going to jail. their hunting ground western avenue. they come out here just blatantly walk up without a western how quickly just get. surgery 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. guys there. 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 erin 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 you're going to exploit a child here in los angeles we're going to come out with thanks to these techniques he has managed to pull 120 miners out of prostitution in just a year off where young you got to be freezing. g.k. is a survivor and she was forced into prostitution throughout her entire teenage years . probably 12 to 18 hours probably about 12 or 15 different pens. it's an exceptional immersion by elly's elite police officers who are leading the war against sexual trafficking without mercy. they get out they are for a good job too.

erin lives in a residential suburb around 15 miles away from los angeles. this former professional snowboarder has now been working in the human trafficking unit for 12 years. erin 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 arrives when we can 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 is a very difficult position to work. you know the stuff that i'm 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 it's heartbreaking you know obviously i would never want my daughter to ever be you know exposed to any of this so it's still a motivator for me. however aaron doesn't have a lot of spare time for his family. that night or day or night but if i get a call yesterday. even on a day off. erin's unit is located at l.a.p.d. headquarters in the heart of the city the 60 tech lives working in this department are very well pete 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 p.d. . 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 proves by get paid the trust no one asked me what school 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 all and we'll see if your response.

to recruit young girls via social media or dating apps the pimps 1st try to seduce them some don't hesitate in sending graphic images that i don't ask for him they'll send a picture of their 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 self-esteem so when something like this gets into the picture little things they tell them how cute they are you've got a nice body you're so smart it builds a girl's confidence at some point a rope and say you know what i think you're the guy for me and then all you know all come mess with you. so we continue to chat. tonight aaron is going to try to treat these men who are exploiting young girls his team will be working in a joint operation with the hollywood vice squad.

not going to just sell my job know about that get a list of all the i'll just. keep on going to one because i want a quiet while you know who the hell out of the. clear we hope to be but there are here are some friends so that the us are still so that the so beautiful thing to do something to see. this child. play

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we're going to be conducting this investigation that both well. coordinated supervisors it's going to be sergeant munoz we're going to have to interview the bench of it and once we determine that they are victims of human trafficking or pandering then we're going to attempt to locate and identify their their pimps. one of the vice squad officers has selected the on line profiles of the prostitutes that appear under any 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 customers this is what we're looking for right here she looks very. you can tell she's using social media that to me this kind of screams that. this has the potential to be a juvenile victim right here. the market for it is nothing that you would believe

the. police will be operating from this luxury hotel by x. 80000000 travelers who pass through this period every year and the dozens of surrounding hotels are a godsend for pimps. a lot of the girls are like these girls at work prostitution. may know these hotels very well they know that most of the men that call them in this area are businessmen 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 2 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. when we take the female into custody they bring him back in here and it was easy and he's an. undercover cop is already texting

a girl who was potentially under age to gain her trust he is telling her about his evening kind of gave her a story that it's credible that i was at a strip club and i wanted to fuck up so now that i spoke spoke to her she says she's 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 rate $300.00 for an hour or for 50 for 2 hours. ok for example for you getter. reads 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 they can discreetly observe what is going on in the next room. so. they are doing a negotiation we can hear it and it helps us with our investigation later on down

the line if we have to go to court they're evil these it's going to go 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 woman's imminent arrival at all if you start. to. pull out. 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. like we man for starters. what happened during your. very. first yes oh you. are if i didn't know you don't. know. the young woman is taken into the adjoining room over there she's making out like this is her 1st arrest. and. she's taken $200.00 from the fake customer got it. the police officers now want to find out if she is working under a pimp 2. so like.

i once did this whole. thing to drive you don't break you're going to pass off. it's impossible to know whether she is working for herself or for someone else despite her young appearance she is in fact of age as she's very youthful in appearance but they verify she's 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. or. and they're not being chopped if they're doing it on their own.

so they will get. into the jail they'll get if i say shit and released and the whole lot their own away. being charged with prostitution means these 2 girls risk a $1000.00 fine and over 40 hours community service unfortunately the police haven't 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 downtime to release some tension it's early evening and surgery munoz's day has already been pretty busy. he came in early to help out the check this. branch of

a couple gay members who were actually responsible for shooting. throughout all the wood and some of the surrounding areas so we got them a custody so we're here at 4 in the morning for you know we're going to start right . they will go all night you know address some of the shifts should be a finite a 5 year long. where you usually have all night. surgery munoz will spend most of tonight patrolling the streets of these tollywood in search of underage prostitutes and his undercover car he will head down western avenue. crossing 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 i think. every night at around 10 pm the regular ritual of scantily clad prostitutes coming out onto the street begins to come out here and just plainly walk. wester and you can see how quickly things just get more growth yeah there's there's about 56 different girls it within about a 4 block area. the soliciting is completely uninhibited for everyone to see so you can see them monitoring traffic waving cars blowing kisses at people obviously they're dressed the way they're dress or attire it's part of that. and suddenly the surgeon notices a sex worker who appears very young. spraying everybody at. all so now she's here on the corner he's here right here because of the street we

have enough on the caruthers in the area they 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 them one question declined an hour and all she's trying to screen him and as we can see there is no they're 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. oks got the list. i would violate.

the arrest take place at a gas station. to c.c.t.v. cameras and lighting mean it is safer for both parties that there was once again the young woman doesn't have any idea on her. so these girls often lie to us about their identity and id and their age even though she's saying she's 20 years old she and her parents is that of a german also. these arrests of under age looking girls continue well into the night. because they get. just the typical friday night in a hollywood at the stade alley. more often than not these girls aren't carrying id they're taken to the station to verify their ages.

in the parking lot one of the girls catches the attention of the officers she's 5 months pregnant. at the precinct surgeon who knows recognizes the young pregnant girl this is the 3rd time she's been arrested. first it was our 11th and then we got her and. 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 salad they're not there to see if this was in charge of the children actually. shit she jumped out of the car ran out for ran away from the c.f.s. and she's better but now she's she's probably in a double every 3rd. 45th generation me before. if you eat desperately wants to be. the she is the is the center shepard you think

she's good all right after i think. the rest of it we said confirm it but we just need to get the right information out. with it when checking the files the officers realize that the young woman has lied about her date of birth she's been using her sister's idea she is in fact still a teenager so brianna is her older sister today i just found out for. iris mark. this action. was 15 that's fairly certain using her sister's information so that it turned out that she still is and so now you have to call b.s. really hopefully help her out and get her out o. lives i suppose but it's going to be a hard road to piss a young. let

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