There's backlash a week after the NYPD launched an operation to crack down on illegal brothels in Queens.
NEW YORK — There's backlash a week after the New York City Police Department launched an operation to crack down on illegal brothels, sex trafficking and unlicensed vendors along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.Immigrant advocacy groups say they want resources, not police raids.
I am terrified to see the increasing police in the streets,' one person said.Queens community members support interventionMonday night, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry told CBS News New York's Derick Waller that sex trafficking is a problem.'The question that I ask myself as a leader in this agency is, are they being held against their will?' Daughtry said.
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