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Las vegas police department vice squad targets pimps, prostitutes and johns. they have been a very busy unit, trying to put a scare into the criminal community. over a two-year span from 2008 to 2009, they make more than 7,000 arrests for soliciting prostitution. of those arrests, nearly 500 come from their trick roll sting. and they give us an all-access pass to witness the sting firsthand. it is an undercover operation with inherent danger. >> drop it! >> i didn't even do nothing. >> the goal is to round up women who are not only selling their

>> 42-year-old ella is sadly typical of the women working 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 arre...

>> elvis confirms for police what they've already known. with two solid street informants already in play, authorities have all the evidence they need to take down their targets. >> it comes to the point where you got to kind of wrap it up because you could keep going and going and it's going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. the main thing is we want to target this particular area against as many people as we know are selling in this area, and try and get as many as we can prosecuted. obviously when we start arresting these people a lot of them are going to want to talk and it's going to l...

Anything and everything is safe. >> fake green cards, driver's licenses and social security cards, it's a market cornered by the gangs of little village. criminal intelligence unit investigator mike davis is on the trail of one i.d. ring in particular. as he gathers intel from a jailhouse informant, davis launches a sting operation with the cook county sheriff's vice squad that same week. they will use street informants in order to make contact with the i.d. ring. >> maybe we can do a loose tail on them. >> he said follow me. he's saying the same thing we're following me right now. okay. >> ri...

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 just trying to identify the players and find out 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 has got an eyeball, call out whatever is 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 n...