Over 1000 sex buyers arrested in the 14th National John Suppression Initiative

Cook county Sherrif wants an ordinance that would mandate the creation of a publically searchable database that would list the names of sex buyers who are caught for a second or subsequent time. In addition, the ordinance would double the fines for those individuals to $2,000, up from the $1,000 mandated under the current ordinance.  

"We are trying to eliminate the demand with these stings,” McLennan County Sheriff xxx said. “It is kind of like the drug business, because as long as you have people on drugs, wanting it and paying for it, we are going to have drug dealers. We are trying to diminish this demand, but whether or not we will stop it, that may be impossible. If we can diminish the demand, it will cut down on (mostly fantasy) human trafficking.”

As the dishonest propaganda insists, all sex work is "violence against women which is similar to sexual assault" (female detective quote.)

Nation wide over 1000 arrests resulted in 15 sex trafficking charges, 75 adult "victims" and six juvenile victims were recovered.  Dave notes sometimes sex trafficking is when a boyfriend or husband helps the gal by helping in appointment settings, driving etc.

Agencies issued more than $1.5 million in fines. This is a great money maker plus separate grants often to go PD from the $millions donated to anti-sex tax exempt organizations.   I have reviewed some of their 990 tax exempt organization filings.  

Authorities added that nearly 500 prospective sex buyers were deterred by texts, calls and webpage re-directs to inform buyers of the illegal sex industry's harmful impact.

Too bad we don't follow the harm reduction model in most of Canada devoting these resource to go after the rare real victim and coerced traffickers and not in private consenting adults.   Zillions of large escort agencies in most of Canada provide safety, work with police if any bad clients or suspect any exploitation which customers can safely report.  A mature attitude based on harm reduction which is the opposite than in Phoenix and the U.S.

Source: Cook County Sheriff, UPI and various wire service reports August 2017.