During the 11 days before the Super Bowl, law enforcement arrested 169 people in connection with sex trafficking in Atlanta.

There are pre-Super Bowl sex-trafficking arrests every year, but 2019 saw more than most, perhaps because, Super Bowl or not, Atlanta is one of America’s biggest hubs for human trafficking.

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