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The War Cry | August 18, 2012

The age of William Booth
when he took a 29-day,
1,224 mile motor car trip
from Land's End, England
to Aberdeen, Scotland.

FedEx Corporation made a special
delivery to The Salvation Army's
Golden State Division in San Fran-
cisco by donating a custom Disas-
ter Response Unit (DRU)�the first
vehicle of its kind in the city.

The co-branded DRU is one of

15 units FedEx has donated to the
Army during the past five years. It
is fitted with the latest equipment

and technol-
ogy to assist
disaster re-

sponse personnel in helping com-
munity members during and after
emergencies such as fires, earth-
quakes and floods.

The DRU is also being used for

an Army street outreach program
which serves approximately 750
unsheltered people per week.

FedEx Delivers State

of Art Response Unit

to Army in San Francisco

http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/history

gives a brief history of
the formation of The
Salvation Army and pro-
vides an interactive time-
line that charts key mo-
ments and personalities
in Salvation Army history
from 1844 to the present.

Useful Websites!

Washington, DC--A surge in federal and state
laws criminalizing human trafficking, labor
and sex trafficking cases are rarely prosecuted,
according to an Urban Institute�Northeastern
University study released in June.

Researchers from the Urban Institute's

Justice Policy Center and Northeastern Uni-
versity's Institute on Race and Justice found
that police officers, prosecutors, judges, juries,

and officials from all levels of government, especially the state, lack awareness
of human trafficking law and don't consider such cases a priority.

The researchers analyzed data from 140 closed human trafficking cases

in 12 counties across the country, finding that although most cases met the
federal definition of human trafficking, only 7 percent resulted in a state or
federal sex trafficking charge, 9 percent in a sex trafficking of a minor charge
and 2 percent in a labor trafficking charge.

Human
Trafficking
Cases Rarely
Prosecuted

Included in the findings:

85%

of investigated
cases involved
sex trafficking.

80%

of sex trafficking
victims were un-
der 20 years old.

81%

of labor traffick-
ing victims were
not U.S. citizens.

11%

of investigated
cases were labor
trafficking.

"Many people say that human trafficking is a hidden crime and
our study shows that our legal systems are further concealing
the nature and prevalence of these crimes," said the Urban
Institute's Colleen Owens.

Used with permission of the Urban Institute

Local law enforcement officials, the study concluded, have trouble
identifying and investigating human trafficking because they:

Have insufficient resources for training, staffing, and investigating
the full scope of trafficking.

Don't have specialized units or personnel to investigate labor
trafficking cases.

Usually lack the diversity, cultural competence, and language skills
to communicate with immigrant populations and trafficking victims
or to infiltrate criminal networks.

Use reactive strategies to identify trafficking cases, such as waiting
for first-person or third-party reports of victimization.

State prosecutors have difficulty pursuing human trafficking cases
because they:

Lack legal precedent and case law to guide effective use of state
human trafficking laws.

Are unequipped to handle interstate sex and labor trafficking cases
and believe federal prosecutors are better positioned to handle them.

Have no training to investigate and litigate cases using the state's
human trafficking laws.

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