Thank you Dave for this report. I confess that I've reacted with shock as I've read reports about human trafficking in the US, including when I read reports of the so called "scourge" of sex trafficking. What efforts at exaggeration from Pillen's statement "it can be everywhere in all 93 counties. It’s complex, a predatory crime and it operates in the shadows” (when it is only documented in eight) to Waugh’s claim of 30,000 annual trafficking tips when "there were only 88 such calls in 2025 according to that same Nebraska task force report" (wow, what a doozy).
What is the endgame here? Are they just jumping on the bandwagon to look good at the expense of misleading us or is there something else going on?
Scott, I think it is politics as usual, just a great photo op where everybody in the establishment get to look bold and brave together. Doesn't matter whether the problem is real or not.
Thank you Dave for this report. I confess that I've reacted with shock as I've read reports about human trafficking in the US, including when I read reports of the so called "scourge" of sex trafficking. What efforts at exaggeration from Pillen's statement "it can be everywhere in all 93 counties. It’s complex, a predatory crime and it operates in the shadows” (when it is only documented in eight) to Waugh’s claim of 30,000 annual trafficking tips when "there were only 88 such calls in 2025 according to that same Nebraska task force report" (wow, what a doozy).
What is the endgame here? Are they just jumping on the bandwagon to look good at the expense of misleading us or is there something else going on?
Scott, I think it is politics as usual, just a great photo op where everybody in the establishment get to look bold and brave together. Doesn't matter whether the problem is real or not.