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'via Blog this'"It’s not about bad people acting in a vacuum," she said. "It’s about bad people who act in a culture that doesn’t value women."
"Every police officer in every state needs to understand what human trafficking is," he said. "Until we get those officers all knowing what they’re looking at, we’re going to miss so many cases."
Patricia Davis, associate director of the Embrey Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said along with more training and a wider array of tools to target the problem, people need to understand the root causes of human trafficking. Those causes, she said, often can be broken down into key areas, including high profitability for organized crime, cultures that devalue women or an overall lack of respect for human dignity.
She said the cultural aspect — one in which "boys will be boys" — is especially dangerous because victims have no recourse and perpetrators face no consequences.
"It’s not about bad people acting in a vacuum," she said. "It’s about bad people who act in a culture that doesn’t value women."
The conference also addressed the impact of illegal immigration, with Shurtleff saying it was a new area of focus for the state’s SECURE Strike Force that, for the past few years, has been shutting down fake-ID mills. With the Legislature granting funding for the next fiscal year, the team is attempting to target those engaged in human trafficking.
Here is another article about the LDS Church's involvement:
They, and all the greedy employers, should have to answer for our children's compromised SSN's in this whole mess! Tell me again, why do we support these despots?
The FLDS have been trafficking in child flesh for decades
One problem with that is for many people, sex is a very personal thing which it's preferable to share with someone loved and trusted. If prostitution is made legal then a person became unemployed benefits could be denied if a person refused sex work. It's biased, also, since a woman can more easily perform unlimited "sex work" whether she wants to or not, and is more likely to be pressured and manipulated into it. Legalizing prostitution is not the answer. It will just make the situation more horrifying because it's condoned to anyone inadvertently snagged into that life. Having sex when you don't want to is much, much worse than, say, standing at a cash register when you don't want to.
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