SKULL GAMES

PROVIDING FRONT-END AND BACK-END SUPPORT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT

In 2022, ATP’s Intel Department conducted four Skull Games and one fully remote Skull Games or “Skull Games light.” We directly participated in operations around the country and provided front-end and back-end support to countless law enforcement operations, stings, requests for information and one murder case.

Of the many highlights we’ve had throughout the year, one of our favorites was the development of our “survivor-to-hunter” program. We currently have three women who escaped sex trafficking and are leading the way in finding even more survivors. Their mentorship and subject matter expertise is invaluable in the success of this mission.

Additionally, many of our vetted open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysts volunteer their time as a way of healing their own personal traumas. Learned helplessness from years of exploitation and abuse can be redirected into empowerment and confidence as “victims become victors” and transition from surviving to thriving as they find a new purpose as Skull Games hunters.

We began 2022 with dozens of vetted OSINT analysts. By year’s end, we tripled those numbers!

Partnerships with local law enforcement agencies (LEA) are essential to mission success. Thanks to our current LEA partners, positive media support and word-of-mouth, ATP added six new LEA partners to our growing list of cooperating agencies. Heading into 2023, we now have six additional U.S. cities we can hunt!

As impressive as this sounds, there are still limitations. A single Skull Game can overwhelm LEAs due to the sheer abundance of information we provide to them in our lead report packets. Most LEAs are only staffed with one or two people to address sex trafficking, and the capacities of prosecuting attorneys and local courts can quickly become overburdened.

To provide a fuller picture, let’s have a look at how we target predators and locate victims of trafficking.

Every Skull Game begins with a victim advertised for sale in an online escort ad. We call this a “start point.” Our goal is to convert 25 percent of these start points into actionable lead reports that identify victims, with the bulk also identifying persons of interest (pimps and traffickers).

During 2022, we developed approximately 1000 start points. With a lot of effort, we took those start points and built many of them into lead reports. We successfully passed more than 300 lead reports to 13 different LEAs across the U.S.

Although we are all curious, most of the time we don’t get to know how the cases we hand over to law enforcement end. Recently, however, we found out that one of the victims who was recovered as a result of our lead report is free and has been sober for over two weeks. Getting out of “the life” is tough. Please join us in praying for this young woman.

As we build more partnerships with LEAs, we can scale all of this exponentially. Our goal for 2023 is to double these numbers. Looking forward, we’d like to put pimps and predators in the crosshairs of every LEA in the country by continuing to expand our operations.

Here is the hard truth:

There are 150,000 new escort ads posted in the U.S. every day and nearly 3 million ads continuously selling girls online.