Jeff Tiegs

So if we were going to work in any city, the first thing we do is we look at the current ads that are happening in that city.

And then we look for indicators of trafficking, not just prostitution.

So again, I say we're a counter sex trafficking organization.

We're not counter prostitution.

I'm against prostitution, but it's such a vast problem.

We're looking for the worst of the worst, right?

So if a girl is for sale online, there are certain indicators, emojis, the way the photos are taken,

different indicators in the ad, very, very simple things where you start running the phone number, you start running the email address because this has to be a contact, right?

This isn't anonymous.

This is an exchange.

So there's always a start point.

Now, sometimes that start point is a phone number that's a voice over IP and it's very hard to get around.

But as we're looking at these indicators, so the first thing we'll do is look at an escort site and we will bin

looks like indicators of trafficking indicators of trafficking so let's say we look at 300 cases in the city 300 ads in the city maybe only 50 of them will have indicators of trafficking right so those are the 50 that we focus on it's kind of like triage even as i tell you this it's sad to me because it's kind of like triage on the battlefield those other 250 women

We're leaving them laying on the battlefield bleeding.

But those 50 that we have, we have evidence that can lead to probable cause that a cop can now take action.

So that's how we immediately do it.

Are there evidence of trafficking?

And then the real magic to what we do is open source intelligence.

So start with that ad, which is public.