Trump's Mythical Crackdown on Sex Trafficking
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At Townhall.com, sex-crime victims' advocate and author Liz Crokin accuses the mainstream media of "ignoring Trump's sex trafficking busts." In Crokin's reality, "authorities have arrested an unprecedented number of sexual predators involved in child sex trafficking rings in the United States" since Donald Trump took office on January 20. "There have been a staggering 1,500-plus arrests in one short month; compare that to less than 400 sex trafficking-related arrests in 2014 according to the FBI," Crokin writes.
This is, as Trump would put it, "fake news." Every part of it. For starters, the 2014 data she links to is far from a complete account of U.S. sex-trafficking arrests that year. It reflects incomplete state-level arrest numbers from just 26 U.S. states, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. It does not include all state sex-trafficking arrests, by far, nor does it include any sex trafficking arrests by federal agencies such as the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which make thousands of sex trafficking arrests annually (though far fewer trafficking indictments and convictions).
http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-trafficking
Tl;dr No, there haven't been an "unprecedented" number of child sex-trafficking rings busted since Donald Trump took office.
Also: Fmr Trump Campaign Chair Just Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking — During the Campaign
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fmr-trump-campaign-chair-just-charged-child-sex-trafficking/