Fighting Human Trafficking: Open Data, Big Data, and Python
Fun. I&#x27;m doing my PhD thesis on human trafficking at DePaul University (in Chicago, Illinois).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.villagevoice.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;real-men-get-their-facts-straight-643164" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.villagevoice.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;real-men-get-their-facts-st...</a><p>I&#x27;m actually a little concerned about the concept of &quot;human trafficking&quot; since the stats being calculated tend to omit realities.<p>One big reality people ignore? People who pay and attempt to cross the border from Mexico to US? Those are counted as people being human trafficked.<p>&gt;99% the immigrants that arrived illegally? Human trafficked, paper after paper when you read into them. They even count cases where they came alone, but had monetary help from a friend or family member.<p>So it&#x27;s ironic. About my thesis - it points out the contradiction of people who push for the rights of illegal immigrants who propose fighting human trafficking, are really advocating the opposite position.<p>By extension, not mentioned in paper, I wanted to show for the longest time how people abuse &quot;human trafficking&quot; out of sheer political opportunism.<p>I&#x27;ll gladly post the paper on my blog when it&#x27;s checked by our department.