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THE GOOD GUYS

People I think misunderstand me when I point out things like the NY cop who was caught pimping over 10 women while not only a cop himself, but married to another cop!   When I do this I am NOT saying "NY cops are pimps" or "NY cops are corrupt". What I'm saying when I point this out is the women who were pimped by him are AFRAID.  They're afraid to call another cop for help because it might be his wife!  They're afraid they might call a buddy of his who backs him up.  They're afraid they're going to get another cop who tells them to "shut up" or doesn't believe them or worse arrests them for coming forward on some bogus charge.  Even worse is they don't know who to trust.  It's not like he's going to introduce them to another cop and say to her "he's a good guy so don't call him". What I'm pointing out is if they call Polaris and get referred to a local task force in NY to call that's headed

WHOOP - THERE IS IS - PROOF OF WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/las-vegas-restaurateur-says-former-fed-manufactured-criminal-case-against-him   First, read this article to understand what I'm about to say. Now, what have I been saying since 2013?  I've been saying the trafficking task forces, the police, Homeland Security, and other agencies that we're supposed to be able to turn to for help with REAL trafficking cases has been: 1.     Refusing to take the reports. 2.     Immediately after trying to make the reports - we've been threatened by either/or a police officer, a private investigator, or an attorney to essentially "back off". 3.     When we have refused to back off, then when we've continued to talk to real victims we're then threatened with a restraining order, an arrest, or a 5150 psychiatric cart off to who knows where. This has been happening to not just me, but other people who have come to me saying they had the same thing happen to them. Then w

OPEN LETTER REGARDING MASS INCARCERATION

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First of all - I'm trying to talk about 30 years of work in the area of sex trafficking in this letter so it's going to be long.  If you care about Prop 47 working, and also reducing the number of inmates being incarcerated who don't have to be - then I assure you reading this letter to the end will be worth your time.  If you're on a phone instead of a computer - please switch to a computer or print this out to read. Complex problems such as sex trafficking aren't solved in 140 characters on twitter, five minute conversations, or hashtags.  So please read this letter to hear from the oldest and largest program of sex trafficking survivors on the issue of mass incarceration - as well as from the group who founded the first alternative to sentencing program for prostitutes in Los Angeles.  Our members are wanting to maintain their "personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films" so to hear from them I've prepared this letter. Who am I?  If

OPEN LETTER TO NURY MARTINEZ - LA CITY COUNCIL

Dear Ms. Martinez: I appreciate your wanting to get involved to do something about the prostitution issue in Los Angeles. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/11/26/la-city-council-considers-sending-dear-john-letters-to-homes-of-men-who-solicit-prostitutes /   But please - if you're going to try and take on helping an alcoholic - it would be advisable to include Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous who made treatment for alcoholics available.  Prior to AA's founding by Bill Wilson - the world viewed it as a vice and a lack of moral fiber. It was also a disease that had a 100 percent fatality rate.  There was no treatment or recovery before AA.  The alcoholic used to be put into wet farms or sanitariums until they died from liver failure or wet brain.  No therapist, church, prohibition, etc. made a single dent in the issue until Bill Wilson stepped up.  Yes they tried "pledges" where men would promise not to drink again, and even prohibition.  It wasn't working

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

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE LOS ANGELES SYSTEM TO HELP CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS?

The movement itself for modern day sex trafficking was founded not only by myself - but in Los Angeles, California in 1987.  If you'd like proof of that - look at the new clippings at www.hightechmadam.com    You'll see there I was not only stating this was real, happening today, happening in the USA to Americans, but also I'd set up the first international hotline for adults to call for help, along with the first program for adults to find recovery. The reasons were simple.  If you called 911 back then for help - the police would laugh and then hang up the phone.  If you called back - they're threaten to come out and arrest you for wasting their time.  So the police didn't believe us.  If you were a victim and tried to get counseling - they would not believe your stories and if you persisted they were "real" they'd try and lock you up for "observation".  How do I know this? From experience.  I was witnessing Iran Contra - where our CIA w