146: Part 1: Heidi Chance, retired Phoenix Police Officer and experienced human trafficking expert

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Murph talks with retired Phoenix Police Office Heidi Chance about her background and career in law enforcement. Heidi also talks about her work in human trafficking and the difficulties of investigating these crimes. She discusses the shift from viewing prostitutes as suspects to recognizing them as victims. Heidi provides insight into the dangers of the internet and social media in the context of human trafficking, and pitfalls to be aware of. She also talks about her book, 'Talk to Them: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Youth in the Digital Age,' which provides guidance on how to have conversations with children about the dangers of trafficking. Additionally, Heidi offers training and consulting services to law enforcement agencies and community organizations to combat trafficking.

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0:00.0	You're going to. All right, here we go again. Welcome back everybody to the best weekly true crime
0:20.9	podcast on the market. That's Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
0:24.8	Now back this week with another fantastic guest like usual.
0:27.8	Her name is Heidi Chants.
0:28.9	I'll tell you a little bit more about it in a few minutes.
0:31.6	But I do want to say that it seems like the two most popular topics we talk about here
0:35.8	on Game of Crimes are traditional organized crime.
0:38.9	That's also known as the mafia, the Italian mob, La Kosenostra, I don't know, whatever you want to call those people.
0:44.4	And the other is human trafficking.
0:45.8	I just told her last name is Chance.
0:47.3	I don't think Chance is an Italian name, so you can probably figure out what we're going to talk about today, right?
0:52.0	Hey, but before I forget, when this episode out what we're going to talk about today. Right.
0:53.0	Hey, but before I forget, when this episode comes out,
0:55.8	I'm going to be on my way to the Southern California Gang Conference.
0:58.5	I think this is my fifth or six year support in those folks.
1:01.8	And once again, I have the portable recording equipment
1:04.4	with me to get more interviews out there.
1:06.1	This is something that Morgan and I started a couple years ago
1:09.4	and it seems to be very popular.
1:12.2	This shall be doing it solo, but we always meet some great
1:15.3	guests out there with some unbelievable stories. Plus I get to catch up with some of the
1:20.0	prior guests we've had here on Game of Crimes.
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