Description:
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This report fulfills the requirements under Title II, Sec. 201 of the Trafficking of Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. It is the first in a series that will describe the number and characteristics of suspected human trafficking investigations and their outcomes in the U.S. Data in this report represent a snapshot of the investigations opened by 38 federally funded human trafficking task forces. Because these task forces were not selected to be statistically representative, the data do not represent all incidents of human trafficking nationwide. While attempts were made to collect complete data from all federal task forces, many task forces began collecting data only recently and were able to provide only partial counts of human trafficking cases for the specified period. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is working to improve the quality of reported data and to collect data on investigations by law enforcement agencies in areas not covered by federal task forces. |
