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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
@ENBrown
Oct 19, 2017 • 30 tweets • 11 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I've been receiving a lot of pushback today from people who think adult sex workers are acceptable collateral if it's necessary to save kids
But it's not necessary at all. (And in fact harms cause) Let's take a look at some of the FBI's individual Operation Cross Country stings...
Cheektowaga, NY: #FBI helps arrest 5 women for prostitution. No children or traffickers found #OCCXI cheektowagachronicle.com/cheektowaga-po…
Portland, Oregon: 1 minor found, 20 adult sex-workers arrested, 1 man arrested for promoting prostitution of adult kptv.com/story/36628385…
Louisiana: police across NO find 1 minor (w/out a pimp) & arrest her; arrest untold number of sex workers & 4 pimps ksla.com/story/36630155…
In Utah, police arrested 7 for prostitution + one man in conjunction with an adult woman. No minors or traffickers #OperationCrossCountry
Oklahoma: FBI helps arrest 19 or prostitution, 1 man for driving adult to hotel for prostitution, 1 man for human trafficking. 1 minor found
Atlanta, Georgia: 58 people arrested, almost all adult sex workers. 4 teenagers picked up #OperationCrossCountry @USOXI
Savannah, Georgia: FBI helps arrest 2 people for prostitution. 0 traffickers or minors found ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/art… #OperationCrossCountry
El Paso: 1 16-year-old found, 21-yr-old woman working w/ her arrested for sex trafficking along w/other adult woman officer.com/tactical/swat/…
San Francisco: 1 "child" (age 17) found, 27 women + 12 men arrested for prostitution, 4 adults arrested for parole violations, 4 for pimping
Jackson, Mississippi: #FBI nabs 13 for prostitution, finds 0 victims or traffickers in Operation Cross Country msnewsnow.com/story/36635999…
Mighigan: FBI finds 12 teens selling sex, arrests 8 for trafficking, arrests 46 unrelated people for prostitution clickondetroit.com/news/massive-f…
FBI NY "worked round the clock for 4 days," found 2 teens engaging in prostitution + detained 28 adult sex workers whiteplains.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/fb…
Pueblo, NM: No minors found. No traffickers found. 10 adults arrested for prostitution #FBI #OperationCrossCountry chieftain.com/news/pueblo/pu…
New Jersey: no minors recovered, no traffickers found, 42 adults arrested for prostitution and related charges nj.com/news/index.ssf…
San Diego: one 16-yr-old NOT being trafficked found w/sex worker & her driver; sex worker & driver arrested #OCCXI sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-sa…
Indiana Operation Cross Country: FBI finds no minors & no traffickers; arrests two people on unspecified charges wishtv.com/2017/10/18/2-s…
Norwich, Connecticut: #FBI takes down 4 women, 1 man for prostitution in Operation Cross Country. 0 victims found theday.com/policefirecour…
Sacramento, California: 31 people arrested for prostitution in #OCCXI. One 17-year-old girl (w/out pimp) picked up sacbee.com/news/local/cri…
Denver, Colorado: 5 face pimping/sex-trafficking charges. 14 unrelated people arrested for prostitution koco.com/article/almost… #FBI #OCCXI
Alameda Co: 8 people under age 26 arrested for prostitution in Operation Cross Country. 0 minors, trafifckers found eastbaytimes.com/2017/10/02/ele…
Myrtle Beach: Three women (ages 19, 20, 22) arrested for prostitution by FBI in Operation Cross Country. 0 minors or traffickers found
Harrison County, WV: FBI helps arrest 5 women for prostitution. 0 minors found or traffickers arrested #OCCXI #FBI #OperationCrossCountry
Salina KS: Cops + FBI arrest one 26-year-old & one 22-year-old for prostitution. Zero kids or sex-traffickers found ksal.com/sting-nets-2-a…
Independence, KS: 22 arrested for prostitution, 14 on outstanding warrants. FBI finds zero sex-traffickers or minors #OperationCrossCountry
North Dakota Operation Cross Country: FBI helps take down one man for agreeing to sex with undercover cop wday.com/node/4344473
Casper, WY: 2 adult women + 5 men arrested for prostitution. Zero kids rescued or sex traffickers found #OCCXI #FBI #OperationCrossCountry
Wyoming + Colorado: 17 minors found. Only four sex-trafficking or pimping arrests. 37 prostitution arrests
kcwy13.com/content/news/C…
And lest you think this is an anomaly, check out some FBI Operation Cross Country results from past years reason.com/archives/2017/…

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Sep 2, 2018
at an Ohio highway-exit hotel tiki bar where Led Zeppelin & Carrie Underwood have been blaring.

Think, lol, I’ll keep myself entertained by making up Salena Zito-style quotes for others at the bar....
Then they did actually, unsolicited, tell me their opinions about Trump & McCain.

But then I made friends, got drunk, & did terrible root beer Jell-O shots w/everyone & definitely do not quote me
I can report that the Cambridge OH guy who spends 4-months a year in Las Vegas thought McCain’s funeral was great & the (sane age, 55) guy who just got a cell phone this month thought it was “over the top” ... then the bartender interrupted & said Trump should be shot
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So it's been a week since @reason published my feature on the founders of Backpage (reason.com/archives/2018/…) & mostly I've just RT'd other people's shares so far, b/c tbh I was a bit burnt out …
... burnt out b/c I did much more research than is apparent here (a few follow-ups already planned!). And b/c it was hard at times to cope w/the immensity of this story, which of encompasses as victims not just Lacey & Larkin—
... but also so so so many known & unknown people hurt & destroyed by this 2-decade+ criminal-justice charade…
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Aug 24, 2018
maybe "not a typo" but some caveats...

1) rape & coerced sex are lumped together, w/coercion defined as sex after someone lied, "made false promises, threatened to end the relationship, wore the victim down through repeated requests, or exerted their influence or authority"
2) definition of rape here includes "any completed or attempted sex" after "the giving of drugs or alcohol to the victim" (*not* incapacitation via drugs/alcohol)

3) sexual assault definition includes unwanted comments & flashing

4) survey was small: 148 women
here's a writeup of the study, since neither it nor any data were linked in the Seattle Times story scribd.com/document/38694…
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Jul 12, 2018
Forgot about this. Ohio does indeed have this bullshit law. Dancers can also be arrested for putting thumbs in their own bikini bottom/underwear & temporarily moving fabric too far from skin
As far as I know—-& I haven’t lived in Ohio for a while—arresting strippers over petty nonsense is not uncommon, but usually predicated on some completely unrelated background grudge or politics. So @MichaelAvenatti speculation re: @StormyDaniels arrest is far from insane
Once, back in the dark ages of ‘04 or ‘05, dancers at one Columbus club kept being targeted because the city wanted the club’s land for development
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Mar 19, 2018
Discovered something so crazy unreal this afternoon that I’m not sure what to do ... but tweet about it? Is there any appetite left today for outlandish Russian AI & sex news?
Before I start, a refresher on Alex Leslie. He's the self-help author/seduction coach/international harem leader now inprisoned in a Thai jail w/Nastya Rybka (seductress of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska),who has been getting much more media attention reason.com/blog/2018/03/0…
Leslie & Rybka are scheduled to be deported back to Russia & Belarus, but have been pleading w/U.S. to intervene, claiming to have dirt on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. CNN's reported the FBI had no luck cnn.com/2018/03/13/asi…
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