"They have found that by getting men to cooperate with them, they can arrest more women this way. If a man can convince 4-5 women to show up at a hotel room for an outcall, and have cops waiting on the other side of the door, then they can increase their arrest numbers exponentially. And they roll it up into a tight little "human trafficking" package to boost their numbers on their PowerPoints. They say they "rescued" these women from human trafficking, all the while giving them criminal records, making them have to hire attorneys, putting their families through hell, and so on."
This is highly probable to be the long-term strategy of the criminal justice system to stabilize the revenue stream in consideration of revenue lost from the decriminization of certain drugs and drug related minor offenses. Sex workers have traditionally been the low hanging fruit victimized by the very system that alledgely intended to "rescue and rehabilitate them. This strategy just takes it a higher level. Arrests under the pretense of fighting "Human Trafficking" are a intentionally a simple, emotional and ineffective one size fits all solution for a complex societal challenge.
The infrastructure and end users that create demand are left intact to cultivate the low hanging fruit. I hypothesize this will add value to the "commodity" trading of references and vouchers as LE leverage the boards entrap low hanging fruit and cultivate future crops. This is just a new bespoke business mode installed as a consequence of new federal and state laws that specifically target sex workers and sexually oriented business on the Internet. Similar situations are highly probable to be unfolding in major cities around the US with moles already in place sorta like a cancer that wastes a body from the inside out.