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- Speaker 0 states that trafficking is one of the worst evils worldwide and is happening globally and in the US, with somewhere between 300,000 to a million people trafficked in the US this year, many of whom are minors. He distinguishes exploitation from trafficking: trafficking is primarily for profit; exploitation is primarily for pleasure, and exploitation often occurs on the Internet via peer-to-peer networks sharing child videos and images.
- He shares a visual example: red dots representing unique IP addresses in New York State downloading and sharing child images and videos in the last thirty days; blue dots represent those being investigated. He notes that many people ask why enforcement isn’t doing more, and explains that law enforcement is undermanned and lacks the best technology.
- Speaker 0 argues that increasing funding is necessary, not defunding, and supports escalating hires, especially in victim identification, to keep boys and girls safe. He mentions a bill in Congress, the Renewed Hope Act, aiming to hire more victim identification specialists to identify victims and safeguard them.
- He observes that this issue is not unanimously supported or spoken about; it seems uncomfortable for people, and is framed as not about politics but about people, especially those suffering. He asserts that trafficking occurs “down the hall,” highlighting that the number one offender for this exploitation is biological fathers.
- Speaker 1 asks whether FBI arrests are being made, and whether blue dots indicate investigations. Speaker 0 clarifies that blue dots are those being investigated, while a confirmed IP address sharing this content would be indicated differently.
- Speaker 0 claims the issue is not just overseas but also in the US; he asserts that the US is the number one buyer of videos of boys and girls around the world, including paying for the rape of children in the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand. He adds that the US is third worst in the world for peer-to-peer sharing of this information, with China, Russia, the US, and Italy (Italy being fourth).
- He emphasizes that this is one of the worst evils in the world and argues that people think the problem is “over there” while it is happening domestically, requiring attention and action.
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 0 discuss law enforcement burnout, noting heroes working daily to combat this crime but lacking access to better technology. They describe the burnout rate for officers exposed to such content, with an example of a month-old or nine-month-old victim, and mention that burnout is a major issue, with training time taking a year and subsequent burnout necessitating new hires.