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A photograph of a newspaper article featuring a map purportedly identifying human trafficking hotspots in the U.S. has been circulated via social media since April 2019: This map originated with an article published in the April 4, 2019, edition of the Mount Vernon (Ohio) News. It doesn't actually chart the specific locations in the U.S. where human trafficking incidents were documented as having taken place; rather, it was part of an exercise by one hospital's staff to try to identify the five states with the most cases of human trafficking: According to that article, the employees were fairly accurate overall in identifying the five states with the highest levels of trafficking activity: This information corresponds with data presented by the Polaris Project's National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) for 2018. The Facebook post reproduced above does err in citing western Pennsylvania as the site of one of the biggest concentrations in the country for abductions and trafficking. As noted above, the pins in the map only denote states as a whole (not regions within states), and according to the NHTH's data, in 2018 Pennsylvania ranked 11th in number of human trafficking cases among U.S. states. Also, the Facebook post above references abductions and trafficking, but in fact most human trafficking does not involve the kidnapping of victims through physical force:
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