Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Fight Against Virginia Human Trafficking

By Rosella Campbell


The efforts embraced to end the modern slavery seem to bear little fruits as the number of victims increased every year. This reveals a shocking eradication results in Virginia where the efforts of the law enforcers remains hampered by inherent and emerging challenges. The agencies encounter an investigation challenge in identifying the Virginia Human Trafficking cycle from other related-vices. Equally, majority of the victims experience language barriers in their new land owing to their different ethnic background. This affects the communication process, thus the coordination of the victim-witness.

Human trafficking differs from smuggling in that the latter involves willing participants who are transported across international borders for a purposeful course. The former involves fraudulent and forceful recruitment or harboring of individuals for their services. By this logic, trafficking may arise in the home country when one is moved to another state. In view of the stretch from local to international platform, all jurisdictions should offer a coordinated process right from investigations to rehabilitation of these victims.

The worrying feature of human trafficking is its fast growth to topple other criminal activities leaving it to occupy the second spot. Mainly, this is a scaring trend in the states with weak legislative framework as such reveals a slow eradication process. Instead of matching the vigor exhibited by the traffickers who exploit the easy platform of propagating the business, they encounter little deterrent from the existing laws.

Contrary to the perception that this trafficking happens in the dark through night abductions, the perpetrators have organized attacks on unaware victims. The preference of online platforms in business today, places the online marketplace an ideal ground to hind their activities from the prying eyes of the government officers. The discovery of online recruitment presents unresolved barriers to the justice agencies as they mandate involvement of huge resources to navigate the logistic covers.

Besides the measures embraced by the federal government to end the inhuman activities, the attorney general reveals a spirited commitment to combat the vice in Virginia. While strengthening the legislation by imposing increased penalties for sentenced traffickers, participating in awareness work-groups seek to end human trafficking. For instance, the 2011 coordinated training with the criminal justice services department proved a prudent progression to strengthen law enforcement and coordinate victim-witness.

Inviting the participation of the general public members through calls for whistle-blowers proves an integral source of eliminating the roots of the trafficking rings. Although this is enough evidence of the attention to administer justice to these victims, the special funding of rehabilitation process reveals commitment accorded. Besides the financial assistance, the integration process comprising offering shelter and counseling shows the priority in healing the unforgettable wounds inflicted upon the victims.

Unlike the customary perception that the criminals targeted individual from specific regions and background, the present activities have spread. This threatens the public safety of human race as their victims are drawn across all races and socioeconomic class. In view of this, every individual remains exposed to traffickers irrespective of their place of residence.

Despite the additional resources and training offered to law enforcement agencies, the end of trafficking remains doubtful. For that reason, most organizations fighting against human trafficking have resorted to using public awareness and training. This aims to highlight the issues showing erosion of human dignity to encourage public participation in ending the vice at its source.




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