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A statue inside One Police Plaza memorializes the NYPD's duty to defend the defenseless. But performing that duty is complex in sex trafficking cases.
Sometimes sex workers are sex trafficking victims. And sometimes they’re not. When cops conflate the two, it can hurt victims, workers and people subjected to other forms of human trafficking.
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