Trafficking Versus Prostitution Charge Separation Model

PROBLEM: The Clovis operation targeted both human traffickers and child predators — and its nine arrests split across pandering, soliciting prostitution, and minor-contact charges. A model that lumps trafficking and prostitution into one number hides the difference between a person who sells another person's body and a person who buys sex — and a prevention system that cannot tell them apart will aim its interventions at the wrong people.

SOLUTION: A trafficking-versus-prostitution charge-separation model: every charge in a mixed operation modeled in its own class, with the conduct behind each class described in the model's own terms — so the operation's numbers show trafficking, prostitution, and minor-contact as three different problems with three different preventions.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Clovis Police Department release via CSLEA, Oct 20, 2026: pandering (4), soliciting prostitution (3), and minor-contact charges (2) among the nine arrested; the operation targeted human traffickers and child predators.