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San Rafael police: human trafficking occurs in city; committee votes to recommend increased funding
Summary
Sergeant Chris Duncan told the San Rafael Public Safety Advisory Committee that human trafficking occurs in San Rafael—concentrated in the Canal neighborhood and hotels—and that enforcement has been hampered by recent law changes. The committee voted unanimously to recommend increased funding to prevent and investigate trafficking.
During a presentation to the San Rafael Public Safety Advisory Committee, Sergeant Chris Duncan of the San Rafael Police Department said human trafficking occurs in the city, is concentrated in the Canal neighborhood and nearby hotels, and requires resource-intensive investigative work.
Duncan, who supervises the department's investigations unit, told committee members that human trafficking “is essentially modern day slavery” and that only a small portion of trafficking is visible to law enforcement — “no more than 6% of all human trafficking is captured in police records,” he said. He described common victim vulnerabilities as poverty, limited English proficiency and lack of immigration status, and said traffickers exploit those vulnerabilities with a mix of force, fraud and coercion.
The presentation…
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