This tweet is getting a lot of attention, which is great, because it is infuriating.

But the problem here almost certainly is not that victims of sex trafficking were arrested. The problem is that there was no sex trafficking happening at all... (continued)

Virtually always in these cases, the arrests are for things like consensual prostitution. The cops just *call* it a sex trafficking bust so they can play the hero. But nobody has been rescued.

See: https://reason.com/2015/09/30/the-war-on-sex-trafficking-is/

And follow my colleague @ENBrown, the author of that story, who covers this issue in heroic detail for @reason.

I, by the way, am not happy that there are women who feel that sex work is their best option. But turning them into criminals is not the answer.