The body of the story contain FACTS that this was NOT a one time law enforcement event:
Officials in New Jersey were particularly concerned that the state's sprawling highway system, proximity to New York City and diverse population make it an attractive base of operations for traffickers.
The Super Bowl crackdown came on the heels of the FBI's largest such effort in June, in which the agency said 105 children were rescued and 150 pimps arrested.
And that the Super Bowel was the draw, but it is one among many that draws this traffic:
Authorities said the Super Bowl and other big sporting events provide potentially lucrative opportunities for sex traffickers. There are scant statistics and significant debate over how much trafficking actually increases during such events, but New Jersey, like previous hosts for the game, paid particularly close attention to it.
"We're constantly evaluating intelligence to determine where the biggest threats are," Osborn said. "Large sporting events draw a lot of people into a compressed area with a lot of disposable income and as part of that you attract a certain criminal element."
In simple terms, the FBI and local officials are trying to control prostitution AND are going after the people who cause the most problems, the pimps. Even the UN, which had adopted a policy of making prostitution LEGAL, want to keep PIMPS and other procurers criminal (See the following Comments on the 1949 Convention):
1949 UN Convention on Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the exploitation of the prostitution of others:
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/trafficpersons.pdf
List of Countries that had ratified the above convention (Does NOT include the US or Canada):
https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=VII-11-a&chapter=7&lang=en
Remember the Mann Act is considered to be the most effective anti-prostitution law the US has ever passed. It does NOT make prostitution illegal, it makes it a federal crime to transport women for that purpose. It is aimed at the pimps and other procurers as opposed to the prostitute:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act
Now, there has been problems with the Mann Act, for it was written broadly, when it people looked at how to narrow it, they kept on running across the problem that pimps will use those changes in their own defense. Thus it took to 1986 to change the term
That any person who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for, or in transporting, in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or in the District of Columbia, any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery,....
http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/The%20Mann%20Act%20(1910).pdf
The wording remained the same from 1910 to 1986. In 1986 some slight changes in the wording of the law occurred:
Whoever knowingly transports any individual in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, with intent that such individual engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2421Notice the changes, first is the Mann Act of today is sex neutral, second the terms "Debauchery" is replaced with the phase "or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense". The 1986 changes made the Mann Act much more in line with the 1949 UN Convention for it is aimed at pimps and procurers.
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