Stephanie Richard, Cast. (2016)
Victims of Human Trafficking Should Not be Arrested for Crimes Their Traffickers Force Them to Commit. Arrest frequency data from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) indicates that human trafficking victims are arrested seven times more frequently for activity directly related to their trafficking than for non-trafficked activity. Victims are often detained by well-intentioned officers to remove them from the streets and from the control of their traffickers. The data suggests that this law enforcement tactic does not work; and, in fact, it produces many unintended results.
