FOX GUARDING THE CHICKEN COOP
My grandma used to say "the fox can't guard the chicken coop". I'm reading about a plan by Los Angeles to expand their services for sex trafficking victims. Do you know why I called out for this movement? Do you know why I had to turn that warehouse spoken of at www.hightechmadam.com into a safe house? Why I couldn't just put the women up in an existing program or shelter? Why we couldn't just say put them in the local domestic violence shelter? Call the police? We were calling out for the public to understand that sex trafficking was real AND that existing services were not safe. That an ALTERNATIVE system had to be set up. I didn't tell people to call 911 for help - I had them call an 800 number I set up and I ALWAYS said "we are not connected with any law enforcement". Why would I do that? Because in most cases the system itself was involved. One of our early board members was a man named Michael. Michael told me his social work