MSP working with neighboring states to combat human trafficking
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Michigan State Police
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LANSING, Mich. â Michigan State Police motor carrier officers are teaming up during National Human Trafficking Awareness Month with officers from neighboring states to raise awareness of human trafficking.
They will work with their colleagues in the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Illinois State Police and Indiana State Police, along with the organization Truckers Against Trafficking, to educate drivers about the signs of human trafficking and to enforce laws that crack down on traffickers, according to a news release Tuesday.
January marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Trafficking can happen to anyone regardless of age, race, gender, or nationality, Wisconsin State Patrol raising awareness
January 10, 2021 6:24 PM Marsalis McGhee
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LA CROSSE, Wis (WKBT) – Wisconsin state patrol is raising awareness about a problem La Crosse is not immune to. January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Sex trafficking affects La Crosse and officials want people to know what to look for and how to prevent it. The prevalence of sex trafficking in Wisconsin is hard to estimate because it often goes underreported.
Trafficking can happen to anyone regardless of age, race, gender, or nationality. National Human Trafficking Day is Jan. 11.
Area rivals team up with YWCA to bring awareness to human trafficking
Kirsten Barnhart, DHI Media News Editor Monday, January 11, 2021 12:04 AM On Saturday, the Van Wert and Lincolnview girls basketball teams held their annual game, which is dedicated to bringing awareness to human trafficking. Human Trafficking Awareness Month is in January. (DHI Media/Kirsten Barnhart) On Saturday, the Van Wert and Lincolnview girls basketball teams held their annual game, which is dedicated to bringing awareness to human trafficking. Human Trafficking Awareness Month is in January. (DHI Media/Kirsten Barnhart) On Saturday, the Van Wert and Lincolnview girls basketball teams held their annual game, which is dedicated to bringing awareness to human trafficking. Human Trafficking Awareness Month is in January. (DHI Media/Kirsten Barnhart)
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and it’s a growing crime across the country and here in Wisconsin.
“Human trafficking is anything that involves a use of force of threats on victims for any kind of sexual exploitation or for forced labor,” Wisconsin State Patrol Sgt. Craig Morehouse said. “A lot of times you see that the victims are children and teens but it can happen to adults as well.”
Morehouse says although it can happen anywhere- they focus their crackdown efforts along the interstate pipeline.
“That goes between Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and then all the way up to the Twin Cities,” said Morehouse.