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Chicago's west side strolls. every day this mother of three sells sex to feed an 18-year addiction to heroin. >> unfortunately, a lot of women, the reason they do it is because they have a habit. around this area heroin is a big thing. so if they make enough money to get their hit, they'll do their hit and they'll crash for a little while. until their high is over. and then they'll come back out again and make more money. i guess you would call it a vicious cycle. >> just so you know, we're with the cook county police. you're under arrest. >> sergeant gary has more than 20 years on the job. th...

Continues to work with paid street informants on a long-term sting operation. he and the sheriff's vice squad are targeting a counterfeit i.d. ring. >> right now we're trying to identify the players and find out exactly where they're printing the i.d.s. right there, right? is that where they met? >> one week after making their first undercover deal an informant helps them set up a second buy. >> whoever's got an eyeball, call out what's going on. >> the more fake green cards, driver's licenses and social security cards that they purchase, the stronger their case becomes. but this is not the fi...

Chicago's west side strolls. every day this mother of three sells sex to feed an 18-year addiction to heroin. >> unfortunately, a lot of women, the reason they do it is because they have a habit. around this area heroin is a big thing. so if they make enough money to get their hit, they'll do their hit and they'll crash for a little while until their high is over. and then they'll come back out again and make more money. i guess you would call it a vicious cycle. >> just so you know, we're with the cook county sheriff's police. you're under arrest. >> sergeant gary has more than 20 years on th...

Dangerous violent men controlling the prostitution industry, the pimps. next, in never before broadcast footage, yurl see what happens when the vegas vice squad sets up another undercover sting. this time to take down the call girls. what are you looking for tonight? >> tonight, we are targeting the prolific prostitute that makes her living out of more than just prostitution. >> las vegas police lieutenant karen hughes is in charge of the vice squad. and in this sting operation, she isn't just going after the working girls for prostitution, she's also taking aim at theft. >> she is stealing fr...

Approaching her. you need someone to take care of you. what do you expect the scenario to be tonight? >> tonight our target are pimps. these pimps are watching our girls work. >> pimps. if that is a new girl that they don't recognize as having a pimp or knowing that she belongs to another pimp, they will try to recruit her. >> lieutenant karen hughes runs the vice squad. her unit arrested nearly 100 pimps in 2009 while seizing more than half a million dollars, 19 vehicles and seven guns. there's this image that some people have of prostitution in vegas being glamorous high class girl of call g...