I'm sure throwing money at this problem will help.
Or at least employ someone so Fritz can feel better about it.

Do it for the children. You don't need to define the problem. Just say that there's a problem and ask for lots of money. If anyone turns you down, simply accuse everybody of abusing a victim. Now, is Amanda Fritz saying that law enforcement isn't doing it's job in Portland, or is she saying that women don't have the right to work in the profession of their choice?

Where is the journalism on this? How about a story on what this supposed sex trafficking is all about? Does this have anything to do with lack of security at the borders of the United States, or are we talking about organized crime from Chicago, New York or Las Vegas moving into Portland?

How does Fritz feel about me taking a little vacation to Pattaya, where the US pays millions of dollars to Thailand to keep prostitution illegal? Thailand is happy to oblige, so it has become socially taboo to refer to the bar girls as hookers. There, any nice girl who wants to meet new guys, go out on a date and make a few bucks can have an easy opportunity. The girls are perfectly free to come and go. They are enthusiastic, almost ecstatic to have some fun and profit. In Thailand and in the Philippines, women treat American men like rock stars. Nobody forces these gals to do anything, but their families often do appreciate the money that most of these ladies send home.

Also in Thailand, extremely young girls can be rented and abused, but not by foreigners. That takes place in slummy areas where no tourist would want to go or would even be welcomed. All the millions of dollars in US bribery does nothing to stop that despicable evil. Does this happen in Portland? If Amanda Fritz has ever defined the term sex trafficking and explained in detail the situation in Portland, I've never read or heard about it; certainly not in the Merc.

Sex Trafficking at Portland State University

http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impac…

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…

The misleading study from Portland State University attempts to redefine "Human Trafficking," to preclude the actual true meaning, narrowing the term from global to local, thus obfuscating the importation of kidnap victims from Third World foreign countries into the United States. Portland State University advocates Globalism, and cannot tolerate the news of any events which might undermine that agenda.

Dr Christopher Carey and his grad student helper, Lena Teplitsky would have us believe that Human Trafficking is when a pimp sits home in his rat infested Albina apartment playing with his X-Box, and sends his girl out on a bus to SE 82nd Avenue. I wonder how well Professor Carey handles object relations with his young charge?

Such is a typical example of the sort of academic fraud that goes on at Portland State University. Honesty would be to title the study as of local street prostitution.
I suppose it would be too much effort to investigate the brothels. Or is the real purpose to erect a straw man in order to knock it down as if the problem has been solved. To get the public attention on street prostitution as if that were human trafficking, through a quarter million at the tip of the iceberg, then declare victory, leaving the sordid details of real human trafficking safely submerged in the underground sewers.

http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impac…

Christopher Carey, PhD, JD of Portland State University
and Lena Teplitsky, Portland State MPH Candidate

SUBJECT: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in the Portland Metro Area

Human Trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transporting, obtaining, or
maintaining of a person by means of force, fraud or coercion, for purposes of
involuntary servitude, debt bondage, slavery, or participation in the sex trade.