Skip to main content

tv   Documentary  RT  February 14, 2021 12:30pm-1:01pm EST

12:30 pm
their pimps. also will confirm a prostitution violation with the suspect and when violation has been obtained the rate will give 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 end they will also try to be recruited by pimps. they expect to make 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
12:31 pm
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 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 card. to talk to the charger monos has
12:32 pm
a live feed of their conversations through the phone. bank 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 indicate to the customer 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.
12:33 pm
i think it was for oral sex but we told him that because she didn't get into the car that he thinks well nothing happened well 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 the johns aren't the only people charged munoz is concerned about here she says there's this is a line of cars. 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 here exchanged phone numbers. whether on the cover so what the
12:34 pm
on the cover is going to do is going to communicate with me something that can be done tonight or it could be darn right within the next couple of days. actually. it's going to take place around. the results. and contact with a potential sexual trafficker the operation has been a real success for surgery monos 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 wild 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 play play but influencing me to keep working out on the street what we're trying to
12:35 pm
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 is 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 or the sexual exploitation of children. is
12:36 pm
a highly profitable business for organized crime and under-age prostitute could bring in between $150200000.00 a year 10000 dollars in 2 weeks that is a week. 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 go to jail. they're hunting ground western avenue. they come out here and just blatantly walk up and down the western how quickly. 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. guys there. as soon as under age victims are identified these undercover officers and the case
12:37 pm
over to the human trafficking unit 60 tech to have specialized in long term cases probably looking at about $36.00 open cases right now erin and his colleagues use some surprising investigation methods to catch out traffickers. we call this are. going through so 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 minors out of prostitution in just a you got to young you got to be freezing. g.k. is a survivor she was forced into prostitution throughout her entire teenage years. 1218 hours probably about 12 or 15 different pen. it's an exceptional immersion by ellie. elite police officers who are leading the war against sexual
12:38 pm
trafficking without mercy. they get out here we go to jail to. aaron 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 arrived when we could go. every day this father of 2 attempts to save minors who are being sexually exploited recently becoming
12:39 pm
a father has only reaffirmed his determination you know work in child sex crimes it's 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. 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 to point.
12:40 pm
and are very well paid 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 on instagram that i do so this is my 1st account. and 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 he asked me what school you go to i told the
12:41 pm
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 . 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 there are things i 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 obama say you know what i think you're the guy for me and then all you know all come mess with the. so we continue to check out.
12:42 pm
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. must not conflate all elites with corruption there are many bureaucrats and many public servants that are. civil duties and that if anything must be associated with the new order that comes up that many of the success stories in. the one. intelligent leaders and movements tell you know people or the corrupt elites on the other side look we will give you a fair chance and we will give you an honorable exit from the system if you let
12:43 pm
your peers which are clear and which have no blood on their hands come in and manage this process with us. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. no not. on things. back home like american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. of the real. one by else a store on. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of be. crude. we're
12:44 pm
thrilled if you're new to the united. around great credit. boom boom. boom boom. and now almost 100 years later history is repeating itself my great joy it's time when to rest. on the words try to go anywhere why not me. what if i come here. we're going to be conducting this investigation that both tell. cornelius the riser is going to be sergeant munoz we're going to have to interview the bench a victim and once we determine that they are victims of human trafficking and being more 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
12:45 pm
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 lunch or a hotel by l.a.x. b.a.d. 1000000 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 like these girls at work prostitution. may know the hotel very
12:46 pm
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. is good. 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 and they bring her back here and you will do the interview since her. undercover cop is already texting a girl who is 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. so now that i spoke spoke to her she says she's going to be out here in 20 minutes and hopefully we we can get her to come out and then
12:47 pm
how much was the amount of her rate is $300.00 for an hour or $450.00 for 2 hours. ok for example for you get or. read 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 help us with our investigation later on down the line if we have to go to court they're able the use of video to show that the officer did make an agreement with the girl a police officer on watch at the hotel entrance alerts the team of the young woman's imminent arrival.
12:48 pm
ok so. so is he going to feel this way i would. tell. the. 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 yourself. what happened during your. first yes oh you want me. if i didn't
12:49 pm
know a lot of it 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. so like. i once did this will. keep. your eye if you don't break you're going to pass out frontrunner. it's impossible to know whether
12:50 pm
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 a 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
12:51 pm
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 detect this. of a couple gay members who were actually responsible for shooting. the shootings 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 in the city they will go all night you know address them a few cinesias. should be
12:52 pm
a fun night 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 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
12:53 pm
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 it's part of that. and suddenly the surgeon notices a sex worker who appears very young. to spray 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've 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.
12:54 pm
such an alley other than one question declined an hour. she's trying to screen him and as we can see they're. going to be driving away. surgeon with no standards to tail them the it calls in the surrounding area are waiting for the signal from undercover cops before intervening. oks got the violation of a 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 on her. so these girls are often like to us about their
12:55 pm
identity no i.d. 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 you get. just 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 and she's 5 months pregnant. at the precinct surgeon munoz recognizes the young pregnant girl this is the 3rd time she's been arrested. aaron left and then we go to jail
12:56 pm
calls to hear her last arrest was when she was 17 years old and she is now potentially of the church but the police officers are sure to try to get her salary at the last hour there to see if it was in charge of the children actually. she actually jumped out of the car ran out for ran away from d.c. fs. but now she says she's probably in a double everything that i let. me be sure i was so. desperately wants are the. things she is the is the center ship which i think she's good all right. very good you're the rest of it we said confirm it but we just need to get the right information and. when checking the files the officers realize that the young woman has lied about her
12:57 pm
date of birth she's been using her sister's id she is in fact still a teenager so brianna is her older sister today i just found the lord. iris very hard. to take this action if. she was 15 that's a fairly certain you see her sister's information so that it turned out that she still is and 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. fellow in the woods and in the. blog but i'll blog good. and you back in a can not or cannot walk by now i see this and i. national. cannot deny.
12:58 pm
bills on miles on a pole on a limb with all his human. and. must know how to set the community into it all small a lot of the soul what it. was you need to try not to give the impetus that all of you in the nose you know who need you know feel good. charlotte and know it and when i might. be my name a few of them. this is a speculative attack that iran must is banking on the fed right so he's already going to the f.c.c. is already going to war and he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone to war
12:59 pm
with fish and sand like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael saylor. and now clive 100 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know it that's a darn good idea. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job it was my field bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing and it's not like i don't trust aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. annoying the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with good refugees it's this very idealized image i want. americans to look pasta the deaths that happen every so. there's
1:00 pm
a history of the usa america. donald trump 2nd impeachment trial ends with a 2nd acquittal as the u.s. senate votes to clear him of inciting the riot at capitol hill. also in our review of the week no ban on foreign social media unless absolutely necessary the point tackled by president putin is he met with the heads of russia's media. protests break out across france calling for tougher laws protecting children as the country's top court hears the case of a 13 year old girl who was allegedly raped by 25 fighters. and the british government threatens to jail people for up to 10 years if they lie about traveling from covert hotspots we put the issue up for debate on the big issues that we've suffered from these people coming. from countries well to free her.

15 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on