Blowing the Whistle on Human Trafficking

Kathryn Bolkovac was a police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska when she signed up to help keep the peace in Bosnia in 1998. DynCorp, the military contractor that hired Bolkovac, was working in Bosnia to do everything from keep airbases in shape to running mess halls. Bolkovac worked with other Americans to train local law enforcement officers, some of whom she had to teach how to drive. But that wasn’t the hardest part of her time abroad. Below, Bolkovac, author with Cari Lynn of The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and …

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