Dallas has already fallen prey. Who knows factor or combination thereof led to the op. Watch your six folks.

Where did you get this from? Clearly you haven't written it yourself.

January is so-called "human trafficking month." That is the biggest trigger of LE activity around this hobby. All they want is headlines and they use "HT month" to get them. It's all about PR. Simple as that. And, by the way, if you follow those cases as they go through the court system, very few people are ever charged with HT, let alone convicted of it.

city?
What brewing conflict?

Usually snitches get stitches, but in some cases they get a green card!

Weirdly enough, local police often drag their feet if they can't get easy hard evidence of a crime. So in some cases the Fed gets a lead, makes a high level bust, then hands over all their evidence to the city police for prostitution. Prostitution is not a federal offense (it's actually not even federally illegal, see Nevada where it is legal), so it has to be prostituted by city/county police of that state. The Feds are prosecuting for trafficking (enticing women to cross state lines to do SW) and wire fraud (sending money across state lines fraudulently to fund illegal activity). So the anti-agency effort is done by the feds while the anti-john and anti-sw has to be done by local agencies in that state.

It always starts with some lead, and in the feds case it generally has to be across state lines to make it an easy case.

All the other issues you lead are more likely to get a tenant kicked out by management than an actual prosecution. It's just too much work unless they get lucky.

All evidence has to be presented to court and lawyers look over it carefully in addition to how it was obtained. So a snitch either has to testify or the police have to do the extra work to find enough evidence to not need that. Again, police are a lot lazier than people realize. They want easy cases.