Criminal Minds "Supply & Demand" Review

In Criminal Minds Season 6 Episode 24, the FBI is investigating a suspected sex trafficking ring. Throughout the episode, women are taken and stored in a warehouse. These women were also being drugged and kept in cages in order to keep them “under control.” Also, the men in this episode continuously treated the women as if they were objects and only needed for sex. Men would come to the warehouse and watch the women be tortured then bid on them. In this review, I will argue that sex trafficking as shown in Criminal Minds Season 6 Episode 24 is a major problem women today have to face.

Women today have many things that they have to worry about. One major issue that women have to worry about is sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is illegally transporting someone and moving them to another place for sexual exploitation. In the episode of Criminal Minds mentioned above Agent Seaver states, “We only rescued seven victims today, what about the rest of these?” (Supply & Demand). This quote goes to show how many women are affected by sex trafficking today. If that was just one small trafficking ring, what about all of the others?

Many people do not understand how many things women have to worry about that they should not have to. Women, myself included, have to take so many precautions. Some of these precautions include: looking in your car, looking under you car, not going anywhere alone, not being able to walk alone, and so much more. When talking about the struggle of sex trafficking Agent David Rossi states, “It never ends” (Supply & Demand). This is not okay.

Women today should not have to worry about taking all of these precautions for their entire lives, but they do. Even though sex trafficking might not appear to affect a lot of people, it actually does. In today’s society, women are forced to constantly be aware and cautious but even with this their safety feels jeopardized.

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Works Cited:

Criminal Minds/Supply & Demand [Television series episode]. (2011, May 18).

MJ