'Sharks are circling': On the streets with Edmonton’s human trafficking and exploitation unit

She’s wearing track pants and a bedazzled pink hoodie on a fall afternoon. She looks young. When she walks, she staggers slightly, twirling her blond hair and at times, pulling at the long strands and sticking them in the corner of her mouth, sucking on them.
Most of the usual crowd on 97 Street in the Alberta Avenue area barely acknowledge the woman on the corner.
But there are a few.
A voice comes over the secure police tactical channel: “The sharks are circling heavy.”
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