Charge Classification and Counting Model

PROBLEM: The Clovis operation produced 9 arrests, but the arrests were not one thing: four men were charged with pandering, three women with soliciting prostitution, and two men with charges for allegedly trying to meet a minor. A press release that says "9 arrested" without the split lets every later reader count the operation as nine child-predator arrests — which it was not — or nine prostitution arrests — which it was not either.

SOLUTION: A charge-classification and counting model: every arrest in a mixed operation modeled by charge class — trafficking, prostitution, minor-contact — with the count per class and the total, so the operation's numbers say what the operation actually was.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Clovis Police Department release via CSLEA, Oct 20, 2026: of the nine arrested, four were charged with pandering, three with soliciting prostitution, and two men face charges for allegedly trying to meet a minor (contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual act; arranging a meeting with a minor; one also persuading a minor to engage in commercial sex acts).