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Anti-Human Trafficking Forum Set For Brooklyn Heights Church
Plymouth Church will host a forum on human trafficking around the city with advocates, a survivor and members of the NYPD.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — An Orange Street church will host a forum over the weekend on human trafficking in the city with a film screening and discussion including a survivor and members of the NYPD.
"In Our Backyard: How to Effect Change for Trafficking Survivors in Our City," will be held on Sunday at Plymouth Church, 87 Orange St., and bring together local nonprofits and the NYPD to raise awareness to the issue, the church announced.
The event will include Lt. Christopher Sharpe of the NYPD's Human Trafficking Team sharing tips on how to recognize and respond to suspected trafficking.
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It will also have a screening of the documentary "In Our Backyard" that looks sex trafficking in Brooklyn followed by a roundtable discussion with local nonprofits, a trafficking survivor and the director.
The city has seen a rise in trafficking in recent years with documented cases up 50 percent in 2017, from 85 to 55, and an increase in arrests, the New York Daily News reported.
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The nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline said they had 332 reported human trafficking cases in New York in 2016, with 252 of them sex-trafficking related, The Journal News reported.
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