According to the Department of Justice, there are around 2,500 missing children from the San Diego area alone at any given time. After they go missing, statistics show that they will be approached by a sex trafficker within 48 hours. Thankfully, as outlined by this NBC San Diego 7 story, Saved in America is a group committed to changing these statistics using a particular set of skills.

The Skills

The particular set of skills used to locate missing children right here in San Diego by the group that makes up Saved in America includes military specialties as well as an immense amount of law enforcement experience. In addition, all volunteers who make up the team at SIA are licensed private investigators who work on behalf of the families and can communicate with law enforcement about these cases, along with performing the necessary research and surveillance work needed to find the missing child. In other words, this group isn’t made up of a team of people who want to help but are no more qualified than the rest of us. Instead, this team is made up of highly qualified individuals who have previously spent their careers serving the people of this nation either abroad or on the home front. This gives them a unique set of skills that translates well into tracking down missing kids and rescuing them out of the human trafficking industry. 

No Snatch and Grabs

While some critics of SIA worry that their tactics might be a bit too militant such as snatching and grabbing kids, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, throughout the recoveries performed, it is most often law enforcement tipped off by SIA that goes in and rescues the child. Saved in America does not want to ever snatch and grab a kid and potentially put them into a more dangerous situation. Instead, they do the tireless work necessary to track them down and then let the police come in and do the job themselves of getting the child out of the trafficking ring. SIA does proudly help families, though, after the rescue to find safe housing and to help them get the most lengthy sentence possible for those at fault for their child’s trauma. SIA wants to see predators behind bars, where they are not free to hurt more kids.