The major problem in our society is that police and detectives cost us a lot of money but basically do nothing. The only thing really saving us is that people of XXI century are unbelievably benign.
Women with few choices who need help? Proactive arrest. ESPECIALLY if they're women of color.
Free, safe people who are willingly selling a service to customers? Why, that's a crime!
But pimps? Well that's just way too much work. I still remember an Oakland cop I talked to telling me, "The best way to stop a pimp is to arrest his girls, and then he has no money and gets in trouble with his boss."
It's a truly sad state of affairs when the literal slavers are the people law enforcement feels least inclined to catch, instead focusing on punishing people who for the most part are harmless (often with profound racial biases in enforcement, e.g., the "black women in a parked car with one man is suspicious" policy in many major cities).
Most anti-pimping laws ban any kind of profiting from the proceeds of prostitution. So if a prostitute tries to arrange an apartment to work out of, or hire a legitimate bodyguard, the law sees those people as pimps. As a result, she ends up having to work with a criminal that offers protection and a workplace: IE a pimp.
Said busy work often concerns imaginary crime, like going after weed consumers or "computer pirates".
Often the system is either dysfunctional, and avoids crime, or crooked, and works to cover up crime.
Damn, don't we put people in prison whose sole crime is having jpgs with nude photos of said girls? And then we turn a blind eye to men who actually do the pimping and raping of such girls on industrial scale. I call bulshit on this one.
To me this system seems deliberately broken and we should bring people who broke it to justice.
You want to know where the resources are going, instead of being used to catch people raping 13 year old girls...
Just look where the most money is MADE in the justice system to find out where the manpower is directed.