Money Priorities  

By: Maite Nieblas

“In this great land of the free we call it human trafficking. And so long as we don’t partake in the luxury, ignoring slavery is of no consequence. It is much easier to look away and ignore the victims. The person who ignores slavery justifies it by quickly deducting the victim is a willing participant hampered by misfortune.”  

-D'Andre Lampkin      

 

             It is very well seen that human trafficking is the number two highest crime in the United States, followed by the drug trafficking being the first crime. No one really understands how much money we truly spend on the drug war combat on comparison to human trafficking, the United States should be ashamed of the horrifying gap of money between the two crimes.

        Human trafficking has become the fastest growing criminal industry on the globe, yet not only is it a crime which involves humans being trafficked as well as drugs. The United States has spent more money on other stuff that is not even needed. Anti-Trafficking review by Mike Dottridge, stated that in 2014 only about 1/4 of those criminals arrested for drug charges was seen to be criminal arrested for trafficking individuals. It is so hard to see how many people are being sold and used every moment. Their innocent souls being taken from them because of a disgusting human being. That just shows how much effort law enforcement puts into those of drug trafficking, rather those trafficking humans. We really should be ashamed of our priorities as a country.

         Throughout the world human trafficking is happening at this very moment as I write this but apart from that we also need to understand we can prevent these gruesome acts by understanding the situations that occur around you. As well as the efforts we make as a nation compared to the efforts and money spend on the drug war and the gap is very well relevant. In the United States alone we spend    $ 51,000,000,000 drugwar.org also stated that we have arrested 1.5 million nonviolent drug charges in 2014. That just shows what kind of priorities we have in the U.S and the different things we should notice everyday. However we do have some people who prioritize and know what kind of people we should be helping out: young, innocent, children. Not for sale campaign is a non-profit organization that people like us donate money, in return this organization works globally to re-abolish slavery and everyday victims are saved and recompensed in one way or another.

        

          Bibliography 

"Drug War Statistics." Drug War Statistics. Drug Policy Alliance, 07 Oct. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

Dottridge, Mike. "Anti-Trafficking Review." Editorial: How Is the Money to Combat Human Trafficking Spent? Anti-Trafficking Review, 12 Nov. 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.