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The operation has netted more than 900 arrests since 2011, and cops have seized about 220 vehicles used by johns.
Kelly said the NYPD has also established a Human Trafficking Squad within the Vice Division of the department’s Organized Crime Control Bureau.
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The officers assisted in last month’s arrest of Taye Ellerby, 35, who allegedly forced two women and a teenage runaway from Connecticut to prostitute themselves in his East Harlem apartment.
“The brutal sex trafficking industry, which preys on and victimizes New York City’s most vulnerable women, men and children, is fueled by prostitution patronizers, who believe that they can buy the bodies of people in prostitution with impunity,” said Dorchen Leidholdt, director of the Sanctuary for Families’ Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services. “Attacking the demand for prostitution is the best way to prevent and curtail trafficking in our city.”
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