Source: ohioattorneygeneral.gov 9/29/25
A statewide human trafficking operation conducted last week by more than 100 law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 135 people seeking to buy sex – including from minors, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.
“Operation Next Door was named to highlight the proximity and prevalence of human trafficking,” Yost said. “Too often, we are lulled into the false narrative that these crimes happen only in the shadows. This is simply not true – human trafficking occurs in plain sight and, unfortunately, may even be fueled by your co-workers or neighbors.”
Led by AG Yost’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC), Operation Next Door took place in urban centers, suburban communities and rural areas throughout Ohio.
The statewide crackdown was spearheaded by OOCIC’s human trafficking task forces, which were joined by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
A recap of Operation Next Door
- 32 people were arrested on felony charges including promoting prostitution, compelling prostitution, seeking sex with a minor, and drug possession and/or trafficking.
- 103 “johns” seeking to buy sex were arrested and charged with engaging in prostitution or solicitation.
- 67 human trafficking survivors were referred by …
“Operation next door” Is such an intentionally misleading take. It implies that “trafficking” is widespread, commonplace and an epidemic. They also love to use cutesy buzzwords like “rescued, survivor and recovered” in an attempt to legitimize and humanize this garbage as needed urgency to the masses and the media falls for it every time.
It’s so cringey how they pretend to be the “good guys.” while ICE are the ones actually trafficking humans under the guise of “public safety.”
Notice how lawmakers have absolutely ZERO interest in stopping illegal immigration or sex crimes, they get more millage from demonizing immigrants and PFR for easy political points. All just to keep the money following to perpetuate this clown show.
“Operation Next Door was named to highlight the proximity and prevalence of human trafficking,” Yost said. “Too often, we are lulled into the false narrative that these crimes happen only in the shadows. This is simply not true – human trafficking occurs in plain sight and, unfortunately, may even be fueled by your co-workers or neighbors.”
That statement is fraudlent emotional puffery to catapult a false narrative of intervention.
I’ve seen numerous stories where moms trafficked their daughters for drug money or they were in an abusive relationship. How about operation stop the dumb names to instill fear and grant money?
They just busted a bunch of guys trying to pick up hookers, guys have been picking up hookers since 1818 I don’t think this operation changed much.
Suggested Change: Renaming the Registry
Coalition Entry | Fall (Reckoning) Archive Timestamp: September 30, 2025 – 12:32 PM EDT Word Count: 368 Disclaimer: This entry reframes registry statutes as systems of coercion, caste, and servitude. It does not condone criminal harm, but demands recognition of systemic exclusion and coerced compliance. Language adapted for public forum use and survivor protection.
Suggested terminology update for coalition review. Vote with likes if you support this reframing: 50 or more will suffice.
The term Person Forced to Register (PFR) fails to capture the systemic coercion, surveillance, and exclusion embedded in the registry. We rename these individuals as the Government Trafficked (GT)—those subjected to state-imposed servitude under threat of re-incarceration. The registry itself becomes Government Trafficking (GT), a statutory apparatus that compels labor (check-ins, fees, GPS tracking), restricts movement and housing, and enforces public exposure.
This reframing is not rhetorical—it mirrors federal definitions of trafficking under 22 U.S. Code § 7102: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Registry statutes impose conditions that meet these thresholds—especially through coercive compliance, threat of re-incarceration, and public exposure.
But this also exposes a deeper structure: a caste system manufactured by statute. The Government Trafficked are not merely monitored—they are marked, stratified, and excluded across jurisdictions, denied sanctuary, and forced into perpetual compliance. This caste is not incidental. It is engineered.
As seen in Operation Next Door and echoed in the Epstein files, the language of trafficking—compelling, promoting, transporting, soliciting—is identical to that used in registry statutes. The Ohio sting resulted in 135 arrests and the reclassification of sex workers as “human trafficking survivors.” But beneath the headlines lies a deeper harm: the continued surveillance and exclusion of individuals already subjected to Government Trafficking. One Government Trafficked individual was publicly named as not involved—yet remains under state control.
This demands recognition: the registry is not a public safety tool. It is a caste-based system of government trafficking. And those within it are survivors of state-imposed servitude.
The biggest human traffickers in the entire world are America’s governments. They keep all kinds of “wars” going against American citizens in order to keep their carceral businesses running. People are the commodities of the businesses and they create laws specifically to traffic them.
America’s governments traffic these “human trafficking survivors”. They are supposedly victims, but government will imprison and traffic them.
The Registries are a large trafficking operation. How many billions are wasted on that nonsense? How many hundreds of thousands of people are employed for it? They work all throughout the big government businesses. How much of those businesses are private and making people piles of dollars? Should be zero, but it is not. Even many of the people working on it in government are well overpaid.
WHAT PLANET ARE WE ON?!?
“…100 law enforcement agencies”. Good gracious what an inefficient use of limited resources. This term trafficking – I don’t even think I understand what it means anymore. They apply it to everything and it is invoked to imply selling children. But they use it to describe all adult prostitution. No, I don’t buy it. It’s not everywhere and all around us. Just because some people want the services of a prostitute and just because prostitution exists, does not mean it is all under the umbrella of trafficking.
What a waste of time and money arresting adults for seeking adult sex services, as if that’s ever going to stop. For crimes against minors and real trafficking, I don’t think they know how to stop it or even identify the source, so they do these big sweeps to feel good about themselves.
Speaking of trafficking when will the government stop trafficking off the lives of those on the registry and exploiting our crime for profit.