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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:11:00

comcast business. built for business. officers with the oakland police department's human trafficking task force are out on the city's notorious prostitution track conducting undercover stings. >> so we've been out here about 40, 45 minutes. within about a five-block radius four arrests within a short period of time. it's the type of activity that's going on here. >> 21-year-old kekia moore is no stranger to the oakland p.d. it's tough to figure out how this well-educated, articulate young sacramento native ended up trolling international boulevard. but being arrested is nothing new for her. >> be cooperative and you know how this works, right?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:43:00

they can grab you into their car. they can take off before you have a chance to react. >> i need everybody to make sure they're on top of their game. we have undercover officers out here who are putting themselves in a situation that can turn bad really quick, especially some of the things that we've been seeing so far. pimps walking around with guns flashing, trying guerrilla tactics and things like that. so i need everybody to be on their a game. >> it's a little after 3:00 p.m. when the task force hits the streets of oakland and rolls out to the track. >> we'll put them on the northeast corner. >> i'm not going to let anything happen to you, wendy. >> all right, bro. you got eyes? >> yeah, i got eyes. all right. unders are out, northeast corner. 17th avenue, international. >> seasoned vice cops know that there's no surefire way to predict when the johns will show up. but today it only takes ten minutes for the undercovers to get their first bite. >> how are you doing? >> all right.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:07:00

sharmin bach says operations like these are not about harassing girls, they're all about raising public awareness to the growing problem of domestic trafficking. >> it's about really throwing the door wide open so people can see what is going on on the street corner every day. we're talking about american children being bought and sold by american men in epidemic proportions throughout our country. >> be cooperative, and you know how this works, right? >> yeah. i've got to go to jail? >> and so many people think that this is something that only happens in third world countries or with women and children coming over in shipping containers from the far east. but you know, if you open your eyes and actually look at what you see throughout the bay area on the street corner, those are kids. those are our kids. >> up next, face to face with a vicious, neverending cycle of drugs and despair out on the track of oakland.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:06:00

>> that crack pipe just got pulled out of your coat. >> yes, but my coat, my sister had it on earlier. that's not mine. i do it but i ain't have nothing all day. >> okay. >> officer, i did not do anything. i did not solicit him at all. >> police carefully document the evidence and then move on. >> all right. female, black, white jacket, blue jeans. >> coming up there. copy. arrest teams copy. this is going to be a swoop. >> you can pop out and film this one. >> this young woman is done for the night but not before offering police a living, breathing reminder of exactly what it is that they are trying to accomplish out here on the track. >> what are you recording me for? can you get them out of my face? >> right now light is being shed on this issue perhaps for the first time. >> alameda county prosecutor

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:42:00

targeting the men whose continuing patronage drives the underground sex trade. >> the male johns, the customers. >> we're going after the johns. a lot of times in these operations you see we're going after females. we understand that females are a major part of the problem, but they are also victims. if we can attack this, if we can address this situation by going after the customers, well, then i think it's our duty to try and address this big problem on all sides of the coin. >> undercover officers will be wendy. everybody take a look. and felicia. >> two veteran female officers prepare to go undercover as street walkers. >> you want it through your bra or -- >> okay. >> stick it underneath the straps. you should be fine. >> they are wired for sound -- >> yeah, that's working. >> -- and must also brace themselves for the very real danger that comes from playing prostitutes out on the track. >> i've been doing undercover work for about six years and had some interesting experiences. i've been hit. i've been spit on.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:05:00

with the first woman in custody, it only takes the team a few minutes to zero in on another. >> she's walking to my car. 1400 block at 21st. >> female, black jacket, purple dress. she's getting in. >> on move, signal given. >> right here, right here. >> the undercover vehicle is stopped by the arrest team and the woman is cuffed for prostitution. >> i didn't say nothing. >> a quick search of the woman's belongings reveals a handful of items that are sadly all too common out on the track. >> crack pipe. it's a poker that they use to scrape the residue off of the actual pipe so they can get more of the crack. condoms. typical stuff. >> i did not solicit him. >> is that your crack pipe? are those your condoms? >> those are my condoms. >> that's your crack pipe? >> that's not in my possession.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:22:00

today on the streets of cities big and small all across america, the fbi estimates that one in five of those picked up for prostitution is an underaged child. >> most people when they hear human trafficking, they think of it as purely an international issue. you know, that doesn't happen here. >> illinois state's attorney anita alvarez is lead prosecutor for the cook county human trafficking task force. >> and i think the public, we need to be more aware of yes, it does happen here, it is happening in our own back yard. >> increasingly, the business of sex for sale is moving off street corners like the track in oakland and onto the internet. >> who's going on little barbie? you? >> with profits in the millions

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:02:00

coming and going, blue-collar oaktown has become a hot spot for a different sort of trade. human trafficking. >> arrest teams. two girls westbound. >> oakland, california has unfortunately been identified by the fbi as a hub for human trafficking and specifically the sexual exploitation of children. >> sergeant holly joshi is part of the oakland police department's human trafficking task force. >> the fact that we've been identified by the fbi as a hub is very disturbing to all of us in this city. and even though we do have budget challenges, we have made it a priority to, you know, get out there and run these operations on a weekly basis. >> we just kind of combine resources to get by. >> sergeant jim saleda is a veteran cop with some 20 years working the streets of oakland. >> every major city has a place where the girls can be found. >> in oakland many of the girls can be found here, on a desperate two-mile stretch of international boulevard known simply as the track.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:03:00

>> she's getting in. mark, he's going to go eastbound. >> the track's an area known for prostitutes to ply their trade. customers know to go there to get certain types of girls. >> female, black, long braids. >> i've seen them as young as 12 years old. >> all right. let's get it going, sammy. >> sergeant roland holmgren commands a tactical unit recently charged with cleaning up the track. >> imagine if it was somebody who you cared about, who was forced into that type of lifestyle. and then imagine if that was your neighborhood. imagine all the deterioration that that type of element brings from this type of activity in this specific community. it completely deteriorates it and brings it down. >> as many of you know, we've been battling prostitution in oakland for a while. >> today the task force is hitting the track, conducting an undercover sting operation in the hopes of rescuing juveniles and punishing the pimps who exploit them. >> so we've got sammy. sammy's going to be in a gold ford windstar.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151214:00:37:00

illinois's human trafficking task force. anita alvarez says it won't be the last. >> we'll have to talk to frank and see -- >> this is a priority. it's a priority for all of us here in chicago and cook county. and a priority i believe any mother would agree with me. that it is a priority. i don't believe anyone wants to see their child fall victim to this type of crime. >> today mother and daughter are now reunited and working on mending their past. >> i feel blessed. i think god gave raleigh and i both a second chance at bettering our relationship. >> no, i'm just playing. >> and i think that had that test was not been in place i don't know where i would be right now. maybe putting flowers on her grave. i don't know. >> for every girl walking the track or smiling in a sexy online ad, raleigh wants the public to understand that despite all outward appearances -- >> they need help.

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