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like most of the united states prostitution is illegal in california. merely 5 kilometers from hollywood's tourist back boulevards a dark industry comes to life each night as dozens of young women are selling their bodies on the street. in the hollywood vice squad surgeon who knows and his men are gearing up for

a major operation of western. limits. on the way back raven to want to. write. their mission tonight takedown the prostitutes customers in a rush their pimps. will confirm a prostitution violation with the suspect and when violation has been obtained you see outrage will get a pre-determined 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 customers to pay them and catch them in the act they will also try to be recruited by pimps. approximately 1517 arrests and arrests pimps and or human

traffickers. western avenue is a popular spot for sex workers. 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. in the box me jaysus one of the plainclothes police officers will pretend to be homeless hidden under a cardboard box so having the uniforms in the area would also have you know various you know you see operators that's up to them to be as creative as they can be if this individual here in the car in front of us with the hood open that's actually 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. 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. 0 expected. thanks it. sounds like they're trying to they go there they go she. 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 plainclothes officers cover is and uniformed officers nearby carry out the arrests. try now you're just being.

detained for prostitution investigation. you know. these arrests will continue well into the night. i think it was for oral sex but we told him that because she didn't get into the car that he thinks nothing happened while no way that 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 aren't the only people charged who knows who's concerned about. her she says there's just see the light a car. 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 with you and i communicate with them they can be something that can be done tonight or it could be darn within the next couple of days. it's going to take place what are. the results. and contact with a potential sexual trafficker the operation has been a real success for surgery and the hollywood vice squad at the station christine 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. i was oral anything like that it was very kind of beg me he wanted more from us so not really saying ok i'll control every day 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 by at least. 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 they. differ. on the city's sidewalks and 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 dollars. 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 catch a child you know the car you're going to jail. they're hunting ground western avenue. they come out here illegally walk up and down the west. how quickly. surging 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. should i say are they going to. as soon as underage victims are identified these undercover officers and the case over to the human trafficking unit 60 tech 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 cell phones 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 one $120.00 miners out of prostitution in just a year up where young you got to be freezing. t.k.

is a survivor she was forced into prostitution throughout her entire teenage years. crop 12 to 18 hours probably about 12 or 15 different pen. it's an exceptional immersion by elly's elite police officers who are leading the war against sexual trafficking without mercy. they get out here where you go to jail to . there and 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. 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 riots when we could go. every day this father of 2. 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 this 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 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. they are not i. think they 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 again i pose of 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 in 824681012 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 he 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 who had said that to him 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 i don't ask for him though send a picture of a penis. these vulnerable and easily influenced girls will then fall into the pimps trap. for our real victims need these are all girls that are out there they have very low self-esteem so when something like this gets into the picture that all

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 i say you know what i think you're the guy for me and then i'll know i'll come mess with the hope. 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. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters cold

gun violence school shootings. first it was my job it was my fear of dealing with my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is not like i don't try aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in the aisle of doing this. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse it's this very idealized image as. americans look possed the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america. we're going to be conducting this investigation that both tell. cornelius arise or it's going to be sergeant munoz we're going to have to interview the bench

a victim's and once we determine that they are victims of human trafficking ring or pandering then we're going to attempt to locate and identify their their pimps. josh 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 just 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 l.a.x. . b 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 are lines girls that were 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 2 adjoining rooms in this hotel. still set up. 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 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 give her a story say that it's credible that i was at

a strip club and i wanted to. 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 really 300 dollars for an hour or for 50 for 2 hours. ok for example for you get her. reads for who knows 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 able to use a 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 woman's imminent arrival at all if she starts. to. pull out cases. so is he going to be this is the way to get. police officers bumped 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. you're. like we need

man for your stuff. what matters here are. the 1st yes oh you. are if i didn't know that they don't. know. the young woman is taken into the adjoining room where 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.

this whole. 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 to be very youthful and 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 is 24. and they're not being chopped if they're doing it on their own. so they will get. taken to the jail they'll get citation and released and then they'll go off their own welfare always. 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. early evening and surgery munoz's day has already been pretty busy. he came in early to help out the detect is. the upper hand should have a couple gay members there were actually it was. possible the shooting most of the shootings throughout all the wood and some of the surrounding areas so we've got to

make custody so we're here at 4 in the morning for you know we're going to start right in the city they will go all night you know address some of the fish and issues fish will be 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 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 their dress or attire is it's part of that. and certainly the surgeon notices a sex worker who appears very young. spring everybody. else are now she's here on the corner he's here right here crossing the street we have enough on the choruses in the area they kind of tried to get her attention. to see if she decides to get into. one of the

plainclothes officers approaches her in his van after a short conversation the young woman agrees to get in. such an alley other than one question declined an hour at all she's trying to screen him and as we can see there why are they going to be driving away. surgeon when no standards detail them the it calls in the surrounding area are waiting for the signal from undercover cops before intervening. oks got the. violation. 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 doesn't have any idea. so these girls often lie to us about their identity no i.d. and their age even though she's saying she's 20 years old and her appearance is that of a junior also. these arrests of under age looking girls continue well into the night. because you get. just said typical friday night and you know hollywood and the state of the 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 in cheese. 5 months pregnant.

at the precinct surgeon munoz recognisance the young pregnant girl this is the 3rd time she's been arrested. first that was our 11th and then we go to jail calls to hear 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 not there to see if this who's in charge of the children actually is iker she actually jumped out of the car ran out for ran away from d.c. fs and she's better but now she's she's probably in a double every other fight that i let you know 46 us and maybe she was so. desperately wants to be. the she is the is the center ship magician's it all right . male very he rests the rate

we set confirm it but we just need to get the right information out. 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 id she is in fact still a teenager it's a reality her older sister's name i just found for. iris mark. name is actually you know. she was 15 that's fairly certain you see her sister's information so that it turned out that she still is in there so now you got a call b.s. really hopefully help her out and get her out alive but it's going to be a hard road if it's a young. financial

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