A Cardboard Box so having the uniforms in the area would also have you know various you know you see operators thats up to them to be as creative as they can be if this individual here in the car in front of us with the hood open thats action on the cover officer. Just in front of the 2 Police Officers another armed officer is ready to intervene in case things get out of hand the prostitutes are very quickly approached. Theyve only been out there for 30 seconds and now we have a car stopping to talk to the Sergeant Munoz has a live feed of their conversations through the phone. Expected. Thanks it. Sounds like theyre trying to they go there they go shading the section. The money a simple verbal agreement between the prostitute in the customer is all it takes to classify as an offense the girls indicate to the customer park a little further away. So thats the plain clothes officers cover isnt uniformed officers nearby carry out the arrests. Straight now youre just being. Detained for prostitution investigation against and you know. These arrests will continue well into the night. They was for oral sex but we told them that because she didnt get into the car that he thinks for Nothing Happened while know it you can still commit a crime even without the theme of getting in the car in california prostitution customers or johns risk up to 6 months in prison and a 1000. 00 fine however these johns arent the only people charged munoz is concerned about here she says theres just too the line of cars waiting. He wants to identify the pimps these pimps and often recruit girls directly from the street the driver of this luxury sedan approach christina one of the undercover officers. This is a possible pam and he exchanged phone numbers. Where on the cover so what the on the cover is going to do if they want to communicate with them they can be something that can be done tonight or it could be darn within the next couple of days. Its going to take place around. The results. 18 arrests and contact with a potential sexual trafficker the operation has been a real success for sergeant monos and the hollywood vice squad at the station christina is quick to contact the driver of the sedan. The way he was talking to her it wasnt like the usual guys that approach us and are just like a lot of sex or i was oral or anything like that it was very kind of big to me he wanted more from us so not really saying ok ill control over it completely but influencing me to keep working out on the street what were trying to accomplish is to see if we can get a band or a violation. California inciting an adult woman to prostitute is punishable by 6 years in prison. Because the 2nd most populated city in the United States with over 4000000 inhabitants and hotbed of prostitution and they. Run the city sidewalks in apartments but also in hotels around the airport thousands of women are prostituting themselves under the control of pimps who are often gang members. This issue is affecting more and more underage girls on a daily basis totally. Less risky than trafficking weapons or drugs the Sexual Exploitation of children is a highly profitable business for organized crime and underage prostitute could bring in between 150200000. 00 a year 10000 1. 02 weeks. That is a week. We were given the rare opportunity to follow the hollywood vice. I want to fight this modern slavery on a daily basis if i catch a judge another guy is going to jail. Their Hunting Ground western avenue. To come out here and just blatantly walk up and out west. How quickly. Surgeon munoz is leading a team of around 20 officers in the field working undercover they are trying to catch prostitutes and pimps by posing as customers. The post office theyre going to. As soon as underage victims are identified these undercover officers and the case over to the Human Trafficking unit 60 take to have specialized in long term cases probably looking at about 36 open cases right now aaron and his colleagues use some surprising investigation methods to catch out traffickers. We call this our wall. Going through so phones fake profiles online and on social media you know if youre going to exploit a child here in los angeles were going to come out with thanks to these techniques he has managed to pull one 120. 00 miners out of prostitution in just a year got 4 young youve got to be freezing i am. G. K. Is a survivor she was forced into prostitution throughout her entire teenage years. Probably 12 to 18 hours probably about 12 or 15 different pen. Its an exceptional immersion by ellys elite Police Officers who are leading the war against sexual trafficking without mercy. They get out here or you go to jail to. Parent lives in a residential suburb or. Around 15 miles away from los angeles. This former professional snowboarder has now been working in the Human Trafficking unit for 12 years. Erin and his wife have a new member to their little family. Center came early and we have a new addition to our family. Our baby girl arrives when we could go. Every day this father of 2 attempts to save minors who are being sexually exploited recently becoming a father has only reaffirmed his determination you know work in child sex crimes its a very difficult position to work. You know the stuff that im exposed to on a daily basis the images that we see you know the interviews you hear the stories of these children of what they go through and its heartbreaking you know obviously i would never want my daughter to ever be you know exposed to any of this so its still a motivator for me. However aaron doesnt have a lot of spare time for his family. Night or day or night but if you get a call yesterday. Even on a day off. Erins unit is located at l. A. P. D. Headquarters in the heart of the city the 60 tech is working in this department are very well pete on average 100000. 00 per year in order to fight this war against sexual trafficking they have a surprising weapon up their sleeve they use fake social media accounts as a means to catch pimps i have 2 undercover accounts. Instagram that i do. So this is my 1st account can i pose as either a 16 or 17 year old female this particular female that i use is actually a Police Officer here fairly pretty. And we use different type thing i will do it showing her with money resource show that she gets to travel a little bit in california the legal age for sex is 18 years old however aaron is still contacted by dozens of men you know 24681012 i probably have 25 or 30 direct messages from different bands and chapters this particular person who goes by i get paid the trust no one he asked me what school you go to i told the school and then the very next one was how old are you to be honest with you i am 16 years old saw go and said that to him and well see if your response. To recruit young girls via social media or dating apps the pimps 1st try to seduce them some dont hesitate in sending graphic images i dont ask for him though send a picture of a penis. These vulnerable and easily influenced girls will then fall into the pimps trap. For our real victims needs these rural girls that are out there they have very low selfesteem so when Something Like this gets into the picture miss Little Things i told them how cute they are youve got a nice body youre so smart it builds a girls confidence at some point obama say you know what i think youre the guy for me and then all you know all come mess with the oh. So we continue. Tonight erin is going to try to trace back these men who are exploiting young girls his team will be working in a joint operation with the hollywood vice squad. When you look at you know its its been 153 years since amounts of patient when you look at its been 400 years right since black people have been in the u. S. In extracting their labor for the construction of the country and then you think that black people are about 2 percent of us wealth and are disproportionately high is kind of great almost everything thats negative i just dont see that that i dont see how anybody anywhere it defined that as as a we. Give me too much it would be said. Just that. Theres an awful lot but im also the most companies you know ive been a giver says you. Know when i meet. Those companies humans get almost home pianist to me nobody goes from didnt you know its a scam to see these as pro you know i call. Them and im going to hit the notes and ive also seen. You kind of this. Little kid. Until they. Come to your list. So to you. Know men because they. Were. Going to be conducting this investigation that both well. Coordinated supervisors its going to be Sergeant Munoz were going to have to interview the pennsylvania and once we determine that they are victims of Human Trafficking being or pandering then were going to attempt to locate and identify their their pimps. One of the vice squad officers has selected the on line profiles of the prostitutes that appear under any as of 2017 they are now considered as victims under California Law to help them get out of the game these undercover officers are going to trap them by posing as potential customers this is what were looking for right here she looks very. You can tell shes using social media that to me this kind of screams that. This has the potential to be a juvenile victim right here. In the market for it is nothing that you would believe the. Police will be operating from this luxury hotel by x. 80000000 travelers who pass through this period every year and the dozens of surrounding hotels are a godsend for pimps. A lot of the girls are like these girls at work prostitution. They know these hotels very well they know that most of the men that call them in this area are businessmen who are usually from out of town so a lot of times are undercover as well act as businessmen from out of town. 20 or so agents are now inside to adjoining rooms in this hotel. Is good. So that room is where they will be doing the undercover operation and then the undercover when they get a violation and then we take the female into custody and they bring her back here and you will do the interviews and. Undercover cop is already texting a girl who was potentially under age to gain her trust he is telling her about his evening kind of gave her a story that its credible that i was at a strip club and i wanted to fuck up so now that i spoke spoke to her she says shes going to be out here in 20 minutes and hopefully we can get her to come out and then how much was the amount of her rate 300. 00 for an hour or for 50 for 2 hours. Ok for example for you get her. Raise for hotels are 2 or 3 times higher than the going rate on the street Police Officers have Police Cameras around the bedroom for the operation they can discreetly observe what is going on in the next room. So. They are doing a negotiation we can hear it and it helps us with our investigation later on down the line if we have got a quarter of all these its going to go to show that the officer did make an agreement the girl a Police Officer on watch at the Hotel Entrance alerts the team of the young womans imminent arrival. Or. Pull out a system. So this is going to be the way to get. Their government. Police officers bump into was suspicious woman in the corridor or perhaps the prostitutes madam. The Police Officer who is. As the customer comes out of the bedroom pretending to take a phone call. Like we man thought. After here. For. 3 hours yes oh you. Are if i didnt know. The young woman is taken into the adjoining room where shes making out like this is her 1st arrest. And. Shes taken 200. 00 from the fake customer. The Police Officers now want to find out if she is working under a pimp 2. So like. I was making this whole. Drive you dont break youre going to pass off. Its impossible to know whether she is working for herself or for someone else despite her young appearance she is in fact of age as shes very youthful in appearance yeah but they verify shes 20. The police managed to arrest a 2nd prostitute later that evening but she is also of age. They got 2 girls tonight it was a good night they got to unfortunate in getting minors and then one girl was 20 you know the crow was 24. And theyre not being trafficked theyre doing it on their own. So how they will get. Into the jail theyll get a fight ation unreleased and double up their own away. Being charged with prostitution means these 2 girls risk a 1000. 00 fine and over 40 Hours Community service unfortunately the police havent managed to arrest any underage girls tonight but their efforts to save these young girls from a life of prostitution will soon be rewarded. Between 2 night operations the hollywood vice squad are taking advantage of those rare moments of downtime to release some tension kids early evening and surgery munozs day has already been pretty busy. He came in early to help at the check this. Branch of a couple gay members who were actually responsible for shooting. Shootings throughout all the wood and some of the surrounding areas so we got them a custody so were here at 4 in the morning for you know were going to start right. They will go all night you know address some of the same issues should be a finite a 5 year long. Where you usually have all night. Surgeon munoz will spend most of tonight patrolling the streets of these tollywood in search of underage prostitutes and his undercover car he will head down western avenue. Crossing koreatown with its local businesses and motels but also those more infamous hollywood streets that are ran by gang members. Surgeon munoz sometimes stumbles upon some rather unusual scenes during the night. Every night at around 10 pm the regular ritual of scantily clad prostitutes coming out onto the street begins to come out here and just plainly walk. Wester and you can see how quickly things just get more growth yeah theres theres about 56 Different Girls it within about a 4 block area. This soliciting is completely uninhibited for everyone to see so you can see them monitoring traffic waving cars blowing kisses at people obviously theyre dressed the way theyre dress or attire its part of that. And suddenly the surgeon notices a sex worker who appears very young. Spring everybody had it. All so now shes here on the corner you see here right here because of the street we have enough undercover officers in the area they kind of tried to get her attention to see if she decides to get into one of the cars. One of the plainclothes officers approaches her in his van after a short conversation the young woman agrees to get in. Such an alley and with them one question declined an hour and all shes trying to screen him and as we can see there why are they going to be driving away. Surgeon who knows sterns detail them leave calls in the surrounding area are waiting for the signal from undercover cops before intervening. Ok hes got the release of a violent right yes. The arrests take place at a gas station. C. C. T. V. Cameras and lighting mean it is safer for both parties that there are once again the young woman doesnt have any idea. So these girls often lie to us about their identity no i. D. And their age even though shes saying shes 20 years old she and her parents is that of a german also. These arrests of underage looking girls continue well into the night. Because they get. Just typical friday night in a hollywood initiated alley. More often than not these girls arent carrying id theyre taken to the station to verify their ages. In the parking lot one of the girls catches the attention of the officers shes 5 months pregnant. At the precinct surgeon munoz recognizes the Young Pregnant girl this is the 3rd time shes been arrested. First it was our 11th and then we got her and. Her last arrest was when she was 17 years old and she is now potentially of age but the Police Officers are sure to try to get her salad theyre not there to see if this was in charge of the children actually. She actually jumped out of the car ran out for ran away from the c. F. S. And shes better but now shes shes probably in a double every 3rd fight that is. 4050 arrests and maybe she. Got it. Was or the. Day she is the. It is the center ship with the fish and it all right it. Is. Very clear if you have the rest of it we said confirm it but we just need to get the right information out. Of it when checking the files the officers realize that the young woman has lied about her date of birth shes been using her sisters idea she is in fact still a teenager its a reality her older sisters name i just found forward. Iris a large. Name is actually you know. She was 15 thats fairly certain you see her sisters information so that it turns out that she still is and so now you got to call b. 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