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the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. >> we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. >> bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how ...

Sidewalks and parks. the plaintiffs lawyer uncovered something stunning. the county's joint office of homeless services used $2 million of taxpayer money to by 22,000 new tents and 70,000 tarps during covid. passed out all of them for no accounting for who would get them and who would be used. they were for an unsheltered homeless population of under 2,000. >> you provide them 22,000 tents and tarps over a couple of years. we believe the likelihood is quite high that most of those tents and tarps are what ended up in the sidewalks, streets and parks. >> the county response outreach workers gen...