January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Did you know that January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month? Not only has our President declared it as such, the Northumberland, Union, and Snyder County Commissioners have also.
While unfortunately, trafficking happens every day, in the light and in the dark by known and unknown perpetrators, January is an appropriate time to think about trafficking in light of the National Football League schedule. It has been said, by the Attorney General of Texas, that the Super Bowl is the single largest human trafficking incident. Although this has been argued by others to be untrue, I am glad that at least the media is covering this topic. At least people are realizing that humans are being trafficked for nefarious reasons and against their will. Did you see the video we posted about awareness at the Final Four? I would agree with Rachel Lloyd that trafficking happens much more in the dark, not during publicly recognized times of risk, but if it takes large scale events for the public to realize that people are being trafficking, then some awareness is better than ignorance.
Locally, we are working to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking, through the creation of a multi-county response team, training for law enforcement, advocates, and specifically truckers, as well as services available to any victims of human trafficking.
Watch this video we shared on our Facebook page about human trafficking and the Super Bowl.
From the video: "This has to be a large national law enforcement issue; it has to be a large national economic policy issue, and it really isn't right now. Great, if they catch a few scumbags at the Super Bowl, but this is not going to be something that makes a huge difference in the lives of very many people who are affected by human trafficking."
While unfortunately, trafficking happens every day, in the light and in the dark by known and unknown perpetrators, January is an appropriate time to think about trafficking in light of the National Football League schedule. It has been said, by the Attorney General of Texas, that the Super Bowl is the single largest human trafficking incident. Although this has been argued by others to be untrue, I am glad that at least the media is covering this topic. At least people are realizing that humans are being trafficked for nefarious reasons and against their will. Did you see the video we posted about awareness at the Final Four? I would agree with Rachel Lloyd that trafficking happens much more in the dark, not during publicly recognized times of risk, but if it takes large scale events for the public to realize that people are being trafficking, then some awareness is better than ignorance.
Locally, we are working to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking, through the creation of a multi-county response team, training for law enforcement, advocates, and specifically truckers, as well as services available to any victims of human trafficking.
Watch this video we shared on our Facebook page about human trafficking and the Super Bowl.
From the video: "This has to be a large national law enforcement issue; it has to be a large national economic policy issue, and it really isn't right now. Great, if they catch a few scumbags at the Super Bowl, but this is not going to be something that makes a huge difference in the lives of very many people who are affected by human trafficking."
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