Denver Metro Now Emerging As Key Hub for Human Traffickers – RedState
Human trafficking is a scourge. For most of human history, slavery was both an accepted practice and a crime against basic decency and humanity. And yet it persists, even here in the United States; Many people transported by human traffickers, as today’s slave traders are euphemistically called, are destined for servitude.
And Denver, Colorado, is now a hub for these traffickers; in 2025, a new report says the Mile High City has reached a new peak in human trafficking cases, and all the data isn’t even available yet.
Colorado saw “peak levels” of human trafficking in 2025, even without complete data for the year, a new analysis warns.
THE analysis by Common Sense Institute Colorado uses data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. But the institute said the state’s data was an underestimate due to the lag in data entry, noting that human trafficking numbers for 2025 could end up surpassing 2023’s record levels.
Colorado saw a record 107 human trafficking cases in 2023 and 88 in 2024, according to FBI data. The CSI said the state ranks 13th in the nation in 2024 for the highest number of trafficking cases.
Preliminary CBI data shows 110 crimes related to human trafficking occurred last year, but that number could change.
“The CBI data for 2025 is, however, incomplete, as there is a 30-day lag in data entry for previous months,” the CBI said in its analysis. “As the numbers are finalized, the count for 2025 could stay at 110 or climb higher. »
Didn’t we fight a bloody fratricidal war to put an end to this sort of thing?
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Operation Reclaim and Rebuild resulted in more than 600 sex trafficking arrests across the state of California.
At least Colorado authorities would be increasingly able to track traffickers.
According to Mitch Morrissey, a criminal justice researcher at CSI and former Denver district attorney, one reason for the increase is that law enforcement is “better able to recognize situations that are human trafficking and not domestic violence or another crime.”
“Another explanation for the increase in numbers is that law enforcement is more proactive when it comes to uncovering sex traffickers and consumers of this type of youth exploitation,” he said in an email to Center Square. “An interviewer can log into a chat room posing as a young woman and be propositioned by an adult man within minutes.”
It should be noted that approximately half of the victims of these modern-day slave traders are children. They are children, destined for whatever the traffickers see fit.
Denver has long been a hub for smuggling various illegal things, as it sits at the junction of two major highways, Interstate 25 north-south and Interstate 70 east-west. I-70 and I-76, which go northeast to join Interstate 80. They have long been known to be drug trafficking routes, as I-70 runs through the St. Louis area and toward the East Coast, while I-76/I-80 takes one to Chicago and then continues on. Interstate 25, of course, comes north from the border with Mexico. This is a fast route for smugglers to their target markets, and it now appears that people are also being trafficked.
Local and federal law enforcement efforts appear to be improving in tracking down these goblins and bringing them to justice. Hopefully this trend continues.
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