New Jersey's top law enforcement office is starting a human trafficking unit to tackle crimes of forced labor and sexual exploitation.
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In a statement about the initiative on Thursday, Platkin's office said litigators and investigators would take on the “aggressive pursuit of criminal networks that trade in people and exploit them for profit.” The attorney general announced the unit at the Division of Criminal Justice’s 13th annual Human Trafficking Awareness Event at the Trenton War Memorial.
Platkin’s office said it’s hard to estimate how widespread human trafficking is, because people who’ve been trafficked rarely speak to law enforcement. “We know about some of the activity, whether in Atlantic City or in motels along some of the highways in the state, and occurring online,” Platkin said. “It's also a problem on the labor side, where people are trafficked to provide low-cost labor, which we've seen happen in this state.”
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