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Sister to a 'Worst Landlord' - We are all our brothers' keepers.
Sister to a 'Worst Landlord' - City Conversations - CityLimits.org:
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"...My brother is Josh Neustein, whose Ten Seventy One Home Corp owns residential buildings all over New York City. Flagrant violations of the New York City Housing Code in many of those buildings, rented primarily to low-income New Yorkers, earned him first place on Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio's “NYC's Worst Landlords Watchlist” for 2011. My brother's company racked up more publicly listed violations than any other New York City landlord last year: more than 1,100 violations altogether, some 750 of them deemed “hazardous,” according to reports.
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"...My brother is Josh Neustein, whose Ten Seventy One Home Corp owns residential buildings all over New York City. Flagrant violations of the New York City Housing Code in many of those buildings, rented primarily to low-income New Yorkers, earned him first place on Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio's “NYC's Worst Landlords Watchlist” for 2011. My brother's company racked up more publicly listed violations than any other New York City landlord last year: more than 1,100 violations altogether, some 750 of them deemed “hazardous,” according to reports.
What a distinction for my family!
I wish I could say I was taken totally by surprise at seeing my brother named the city's worst landlord, but I was really more saddened than shocked since this was not the first time that he had been exposed in the press.
But the main point, as I see it, has been to shed the sense of personal shame for something more active and more socially useful. If my brother is going to be publicly identified as a "slumlord," I want to link the “Neustein” name with the opposite: the sort of reform that can change slumlording from the shamefully profitable business it is to the crime it ought to be.
And one crucial tool for doing this, I've found, is already at hand.
Few New Yorkers are aware that section 27-2118 of New York City's Administrative Code makes it a crime – yes, a crime – for a landlord to “willfully or recklessly” tolerate hazardous conditions in his or her buildings, or to maliciously refuse to comply with corrective orders from housing officials. Under this section, many of the landlords exposed on DeBlasio's list – whose scofflaw violations include vermin, exposed wiring, lack of heat in winter and other clearly dangerous conditions – could be hauled before a criminal court and, if convicted, sentenced to as much as a year in jail, a $1,000 fine per violation, or both.
What's more, under this law the “evidence of prior service of civil process . . . arising from the same violation” is permissible to prove the landlord's knowledge of the offending condition. In other words, a building owner's history of ignoring milder efforts to get him to fix his apartments is part of the case that could land him in jail – and this kind of history is exactly what puts landlords like my brother on DeBlasio's list in the first place.
Why, then, isn't the city trying to put at least its worst landlords behind bars? Almost every day, someone goes before a criminal court on charges less threatening to the public welfare. If poverty, as Gandhi taught, is the worst form of violence, surely reckless landlording – which is already criminal under the Administrative Code, and which imposes on helpless people some of the most dangerous ravages of poverty – ought to be regarded as a form of violent crime. And this violent crime is affecting not a handful but thousands of tenants throughout the city. Would New York's citizens sit back silently if prosecutors decided to ignore a rash of robberies, say, on a similar scale?
Authorities to whom I've presented this idea have generally given two reasons for not even trying to use this part of the Administrative Code against landlords. The first is simply that it hasn't been done before. The second is that landlords are likely to plead ignorance of the hazardous conditions when threatened with prosecution. The first objection seems hardly worth an answer, and as for the second, if HPD officials are doing their job of notifying landlords of serious violations (and creating a documentary record of such notice), it won't be easy for the worst owners to explain how they just failed to see, or remember, a whole stack of violation notices. And even if only a few of them ended up paying large fines ($1,000 per violation, multiplied by hundreds of serious violations, can add up fast), or doing jail time, negligent landlords around the city would have to sit up and take notice.
Will milder cures work? New York City already has a vast bureaucracy supposedly devoted to exposing and correcting housing violations, but DeBlasio's list is eloquent testimony that the system doesn't do much good. The worst landlords generally ignore violation notices – and why shouldn't they? They amass fortunes cheating their tenants and laughing at the law. And they seldom face any real consequences.
As long as the city ignores the one law that puts teeth into tenant protection, uncaring landlords can ravage our fellow-citizens with impunity. That might stop if the worst of them faced the criminal charges the law says they ought to face.
Years ago, I remember my parents warning my brother not to forget his tenants' welfare as he acquired more and more buildings. After all, he and I are both children of an Orthodox rabbi, raised with a strict sense of social justice.
As long as my brother is on the list of the city's worst landlords, I've got to help cure the evil that is caused by massive code violations. In truth, all New Yorkers can play a role by demanding city prosecutors make use of Administrative Code's section 27-2118. Otherwise, our law enforcement system is passively abetting the criminal acts of slumlords."
Mortgage scammer gets 57 months in prison - Chico Enterprise Record
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Font ResizeFeds bring more charges in mortgage fraud case - Boston Business Journal
Feds bring more charges in mortgage fraud case - Boston Business Journal:
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The government alleges Kosnevick helped arrange mortgages involving buyers who merely lent their names to deals so financing could be obtained.
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Federal prosecutors Thursday charged a Roslindale paralegal with unlawful monetary transactions and bank fraud for her alleged role in a straw-buyer scheme involving residential properties in Boston.
Prosecutors allege Rebecca L. Kosnevick’s and others caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for a who’s who of big name lenders during the height of 2006 and 2007 real estate boom by engineering fraudulently obtained mortgages that later went into default.
Alleged victims of the scheme include: BNC Mortgage; Citibank (NYSE: C); CitiMortgage; Countywide Bank (since purchased by Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) ); Countrywide Home Loans; First Franklin Financial Corp.; First Franklin Financial Corp.; First Horizon Home Loans; Homecomings Financial LLC; IndyMac Bank; JP Morgan Chase Bank (NYSE: JPM); Long Beach Mortgage Corp.; Washington Mutual Bank; and Wells Fargo Bank (NYSE: WFC).The government alleges Kosnevick helped arrange mortgages involving buyers who merely lent their names to deals so financing could be obtained.
“Because the stray buyers lacked either the means or the intention of paying their mortgages, mortgage loans went into default and subsequently into foreclosure,” the charging document states.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office brought the charnges via a criminal information — a document that serves as an indictment but often is filed when a defendant is cooperating with authorities. Kosnevick’s lawyer did not immediately return a telephone call Thursday seeking comment.
The information describes Kosnevick’s alleged dealings with two men who are defendants in criminal cases involving similar allegations and some of the same properties — Lord R. Allah, also known as Richard H. Matthews, who owned L.A. Properties and Management Corp.; andSirewl R. Cox, who owned City Real Estate and Business Brokerage of Canton, Mass.
Mortgage Fraud: Hollywood man gets 150 years for mortgage fraud - OrlandoSentinel.com
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A 61-year-old Hollywood man was sentenced to 150 years in prison, in Maryland federal court on Friday, for his role in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that cost more than 1,000 investors $78 million, according to U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
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A 61-year-old Hollywood man was sentenced to 150 years in prison, in Maryland federal court on Friday, for his role in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that cost more than 1,000 investors $78 million, according to U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
Andrew Hamilton Williams Jr. promised to pay off homeowners' mortgages on their "dream homes," but left them to fend for themselves when their money was spent. On Nov. 10, a federal jury convicted Williams on wire fraud and money laundering charges, prosecutors said.
7 (More) Abandoned Wonders of America: From Military Islands to Mills and Institutions | WebUrbanist
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Mineral Wells, Texas is home to a grand old abandoned hotel with the first Olympic-size swimming pool in the United States. Opened nearly 80 years ago, the 14 story Baker Hotel had visits from celebrities including Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Roy Rogers, The Three Stooges, Bonny and Clyde, Helen Keller and even Ronald Reagan before closing its doors. As per a strange promise made to the public, the hotel's founder Earl Baker closed the hotel on his 70th birthday. The hotel was auctioned and reopened under new ownership but in the late 1960s Baker had a fatal heart attack (strangely enough) in his own grand hotel's Baker Suite. The hotel closed shortly thereafter for good, leaving behind only pictures of this wonder.
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Mineral Wells, Texas is home to a grand old abandoned hotel with the first Olympic-size swimming pool in the United States. Opened nearly 80 years ago, the 14 story Baker Hotel had visits from celebrities including Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Roy Rogers, The Three Stooges, Bonny and Clyde, Helen Keller and even Ronald Reagan before closing its doors. As per a strange promise made to the public, the hotel's founder Earl Baker closed the hotel on his 70th birthday. The hotel was auctioned and reopened under new ownership but in the late 1960s Baker had a fatal heart attack (strangely enough) in his own grand hotel's Baker Suite. The hotel closed shortly thereafter for good, leaving behind only pictures of this wonder.
Malibu Grand Prix
I live in Houston Texas and I have two questions about the Malibu Grand Prix that we used to have.? - Yahoo! Answers:
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The address is 6115 southwest freeway if you want to look it up on google maps.
The property is now a vacant lot with a Shell station next door where illegals hang out waiting for work.
I remember the place well. I used to hang out there a lot. It stayed open after the murders. I remember going in there after the murders and feeling kind of erie.
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I looked it up on HCAD.
The vacant property is now owed by a church.
if you click on Ownership History in the following link you will see Malibu Grand Prix.
http://hcad.org/records/details.asp?cryp…
Google Earth also has a satillite image that shows the track. Click on the Historical Image button and then go back to 1978
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I live in Houston Texas and I have two questions about the Malibu Grand Prix that we used to have.?
1.) When was the most recently one that was open, closed down and abandoned? It doesn't say on the internet.
2.) -MOST WANTED ANSWERED!- What is the location of the one that was closed down in 1983 because of the 4 murders that happened? I've been trying to find it and i can't! >.< It's killing me! I have to know!
2.) -MOST WANTED ANSWERED!- What is the location of the one that was closed down in 1983 because of the 4 murders that happened? I've been trying to find it and i can't! >.< It's killing me! I have to know!
The address is 6115 southwest freeway if you want to look it up on google maps.
The property is now a vacant lot with a Shell station next door where illegals hang out waiting for work.
I remember the place well. I used to hang out there a lot. It stayed open after the murders. I remember going in there after the murders and feeling kind of erie.
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I looked it up on HCAD.
The vacant property is now owed by a church.
if you click on Ownership History in the following link you will see Malibu Grand Prix.
http://hcad.org/records/details.asp?cryp…
Google Earth also has a satillite image that shows the track. Click on the Historical Image button and then go back to 1978
- Houston, Texas once had two Malibu Grand Prix locations. The Southwest Freeway location was shuttered in the early 1990's (the original building remains; the race track was demolished). This location was the site of the (locally) infamous Malibu Grand Prix murders. The murders were committed on July 1, 1983, during the course of a robbery. Four employees who had just closed up and were in the process of conducting post-closing housekeeping duties were killed. A recently-terminated employee gained entry to the building under the pretext of picking up his last paycheck, and brought two accomplices with him. All were convicted (two received the death penalty, and one was sentenced to life imprisonment).
The other location was off the Katy Freeway and the northwest corner of the West Loop 610 at Old Katy Road (the Old Katy location was the remaining Malibu Grand Prix location until it was boarded up in early-2005).
Here are some pics:
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Rethinking “Sex Crimes” and Sex Offender Registries
Rethinking “Sex Crimes” and Sex Offender Registries:
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(Anyone "highly dangerous" shouldn't be in the registry, anyway. They ought to be in jail.)
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(Anyone "highly dangerous" shouldn't be in the registry, anyway. They ought to be in jail.)
The Economist magazine has just released an important feature article entitled, “Sex Laws: Unjust and Ineffective.” In an indirect way, the article makes a point that I have been trying to get across in my work on this issue: If you want to keep your kids safe fromreal sex offenders, we need to scrap our current sex offender registries and completely rethink the way we define and punish sex offenses in this country. That’s because, currently, a significant percentage of those people listed in sex offender registries pose almost no threat to children, making it difficult for us to know who really does pose a threat to our kids and what we should do about them.
Simply stated, we’ve dumbed-down the notion of “sex crimes” in this country. As a nation, we have foolishly come to equate almost all sex offenses equally. While sex offender registry laws vary from state to state, many basically say that that two teens caught engaging in consensual oral sex in high school belong on the same list alongside child rapists. That is insanity. And it leaves many in the public, especially parents, thinking that the whole world is full of predators lurking on every corner just waiting to snatch, rape, and kill their children. [For the actual facts, see the appendix I have included down below: "Is America Suffering from a National Child Abduction Epidemic"?] In reality, as The Economist feature story points out, the truth is quite different:
Every American state keeps a register of sex offenders. California has had one since 1947, but most states started theirs in the 1990s. Many people assume that anyone listed on a sex-offender registry must be a rapist or a child molester. But most states spread the net much more widely. A report by Sarah Tofte of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, found that at least five states required men to register if they were caught visiting prostitutes. At least 13 required it for urinating in public (in two of which, only if a child was present). No fewer than 29 states required registration for teenagers who had consensual sex with another teenager. And 32 states registered flashers and streakers. Because so many offences require registration, the number of registered sex offenders in America has exploded. As of December last year, there were 674,000 of them, according to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. If they were all crammed into a single state, it would be more populous than Wyoming, Vermont or North Dakota. As a share of its population, America registers more than four times as many people as Britain, which is unusually harsh on sex offenders. America’s registers keep swelling, not least because in 17 states, registration is for life.
Georgia has more than 17,000 registered sex offenders. Some are highly dangerous. But many are not. And it is fiendishly hard for anyone browsing the registry to tell the one from the other. The Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board, an official body, assessed a sample of offenders on the registry last year and concluded that 65% of them posed little threat. Another 30% were potentially threatening, and 5% were clearly dangerous. The board recommended that the first group be allowed to live and work wherever they liked. The second group could reasonably be barred from living or working in certain places, said the board, and the third group should be subject to tight restrictions and a lifetime of monitoring. A very small number “just over 100” are classified as “predators”, which means they have a compulsion to commit sex offences. When not in jail, predators must wear ankle bracelets that track where they are.
Let’s repeat a few key numbers here: 674,000 registered offenders, “more populous than Wyoming, Vermont or North Dakota.” Those are the kind of numbers that send sensationalistic media outlets and average parents alike into a tizzy. Rarely does anyone stop to ask what those numbers mean or who these people are on the sex offender registries. But, as The Economist notes, when you dig below the surface and start taking a serious look at who these people are and what they have done to land on the list, a very different story emerges. We’re polluting these lists with petty offenders (flashers and streakers) and people who should have been dealt with in different ways (like teens who were caught in the act).
What about the real bad guys? As the Georgia Review Board found, only 5% of those on their sex offender registry were “clearly dangerous” and “should be subject to tight restrictions and a lifetime of monitoring.” These would be your true scum of the Earth; the sick fiends who really have preyed on children or raped repeatedly. Here’s a question I want answered about these scum: Why do we need a sex offender registry for them at all? Why are they not behind bars for life? Why don’t we cut off their privates! I am deadly serious here. If anyone raped one of my children, I would go after him and snip his manhood myself… slowly… with a dull, rusty blade. Any yet we release these people to re-offend. And then we put them on a list. A list that had teens on it who made a stupid mistake in high school in the back of car and got caught. DOES THIS MAKE ANY DAMN SENSE??? (And yes, I am shouting when I use all caps! Because I am sick and tired of this nonsense.)
Here is the sobering fact to consider: a 2003 Department of Justice study reported that the average sentence for child molesters was approximately seven years and, on average, they were released after serving just three of those seven years. That is an extremely troubling statistic. If you have young children in your home, it is even more upsetting. When our government is putting people who viciously hurt innocent children behind bars for just seven years and then letting them out after only three, then our government has failed us at a very fundamental level.
Worse yet, policymakers then point fingers at everyone else and scold Internet companies and ISPs for not doing enough to protect children from predators, all the while conveniently ignoring the government’s own failed policies that allow those predators to be on the streets and behind keyboards in the first place! It is not “market failure” at work when child predators are lurking online; it is government failure in the extreme. We are never going to solve this problem until we hunt down the real bad guys and lock them up for a long, long time.
In the meantime, however, as Lenore Skenazy argues, parents might want to just “burn your sex offender maps” because they instilla sense of dread and panic in us about the world around us based simply on the large number of people on them — even though they tell you little about who is an actual threat to your child. I have parents in my neighborhood who tell me they won’t let their kids ride their bike down the sidewalks in our very safe and fairly affluent neighborhood in McLean, Virgina because they have heard there are sex offenders in the area. I ask them if they have ever examined those “offenders” to see what they are on the list for. They haven’t bothered. I have. Not one of the sex offenders in my area had anything to with sex crimes against children. Strangely, most of the sex offenders in my area are listed as just being convicted of “sodomy.” I always wonder, was that consensual sodomy that occurred when it was still a crime in Virginia? (That is, before the Supreme Court struck down such laws in the 2003 case ofLawrence v. Texas). If so, that’s not a crime in my book and those people do not belong on any sex offender list. Of course, if it was actual rape, that’s a very serious crime and it deserves conviction. Either way, these are not sex crimes against children even though that’s the impression many parents have when parents see or hear about these sex offender registries. So, when only a small percentage of those on the lists are the ones we truly need to fear (the child molesters and rapists), isn’t there a better solution? Like: LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY! Or, if we are not going to do that, at least create a separate registry for these more serious offenders. Call it the “Scum of the Earth List” and make these people were bright neon monitoring bracelets and anklets so we can see them.
At a minimum, we need follow the advice Human Rights Watch has set forth, as The Economist summarizes:
Human trafficking bill won't pass in Kentucky
Human trafficking bill out for session - Bowling Green Daily News: AP State::
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The bill would have made it a crime to patronize a prostitute or a minor victim of human trafficking.
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The bill would have made it a crime to patronize a prostitute or a minor victim of human trafficking.
Senate President David Williams says a bill to fight human trafficking in Kentucky won't pass in this session of the legislature.
The bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sannie Overly of Paris, was approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee and placed on the Senate calendar for Friday. But it was brought to the Senate's attention that it hadn't had the required readings needed for passage, and the sponsors had run out of time.
SERIOUSLY???
RESPONSIBILITY
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a poem about responsibility
There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?
Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.
It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.
But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.
When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.
Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?
Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.
It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.
But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.
When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.
Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
Ohio Creates Human Trafficking Task Force
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A 2010 study conducted by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission revealed that about 1,000 American-born children are forced into sex trade in Ohio every year, while about 800 immigrants fall victim to human trafficking, either through sexual exploitation or manipulation into hard labor.
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A 2010 study conducted by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission revealed that about 1,000 American-born children are forced into sex trade in Ohio every year, while about 800 immigrants fall victim to human trafficking, either through sexual exploitation or manipulation into hard labor.
“Can you tell me how a 13-year-old kid can be snatched, blackmailed, drugged, raped, in our state? In our country?”
(NOBODY HAS BEEN PAYING ATTENTION, IS HOW.)
That’s the question Ohio Gov. John Kasich asked audiences Thursday before signing an executive order to create the Human Trafficking Task Force, which is intended to combat human trafficking across the state and help victims recover.
“I don’t think I can think of a greater evil than what we know as the human slave trade,” said Kasich, before signing the order.
A 2010 study conducted by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission revealed that about 1,000 American-born children are forced into sex trade in Ohio every year, while about 800 immigrants fall victim to human trafficking, either through sexual exploitation or manipulation into hard labor.
Kasich’s executive order will give the task force 90 days to examine Ohio’s current ability to identify victims. The board of the task force will be comprised of representatives from youth prisons, public safety departments, state health and human services and the state Cosmetology Board (some trafficking is suspected in nail salons, which the Cosmetology Board oversees).
“They’ll tell me where the holes are, but we have lot more work to do,” Kasich said. “We need everybody in America to step in on this.”
Ohio is suspected to be a major player in the U.S. human trafficking industry because of its large immigrant population, proximity to Canada and growing demand for cheap labor in light of difficult economic times, according to the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report.
There’s currently no state funding set aside for the task force; the task will work hand-in-hand with Attorney General Mike DeWine's Human Trafficking Commission to buffer already existing efforts.
Human trafficking as a problem that pervades the Western world; it’s often defined as a third-world ailment, one that’s found in countries ridden with poverty and a lack of industrialization. The issue of human trafficking, however, is one that pervades nearly every country, although it’s an issue that garners far less attention in developed nations. At any given point in time, an estimated 2.5 million people across the world are subjects of forced labor (including sexual exploitation) as a result of human trafficking.
That’s the question Ohio Gov. John Kasich asked audiences Thursday before signing an executive order to create the Human Trafficking Task Force, which is intended to combat human trafficking across the state and help victims recover.
“I don’t think I can think of a greater evil than what we know as the human slave trade,” said Kasich, before signing the order.
A 2010 study conducted by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission revealed that about 1,000 American-born children are forced into sex trade in Ohio every year, while about 800 immigrants fall victim to human trafficking, either through sexual exploitation or manipulation into hard labor.
Kasich’s executive order will give the task force 90 days to examine Ohio’s current ability to identify victims. The board of the task force will be comprised of representatives from youth prisons, public safety departments, state health and human services and the state Cosmetology Board (some trafficking is suspected in nail salons, which the Cosmetology Board oversees).
“They’ll tell me where the holes are, but we have lot more work to do,” Kasich said. “We need everybody in America to step in on this.”
Ohio is suspected to be a major player in the U.S. human trafficking industry because of its large immigrant population, proximity to Canada and growing demand for cheap labor in light of difficult economic times, according to the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report.
There’s currently no state funding set aside for the task force; the task will work hand-in-hand with Attorney General Mike DeWine's Human Trafficking Commission to buffer already existing efforts.
Human trafficking as a problem that pervades the Western world; it’s often defined as a third-world ailment, one that’s found in countries ridden with poverty and a lack of industrialization. The issue of human trafficking, however, is one that pervades nearly every country, although it’s an issue that garners far less attention in developed nations. At any given point in time, an estimated 2.5 million people across the world are subjects of forced labor (including sexual exploitation) as a result of human trafficking.
a poem about responsibility
There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?
Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.
It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.
But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.
When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.
Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?
Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.
It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.
But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.
When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.
Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
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