HUMAN TRAFFICKING:





Total value of the global slave trade:





$31 billion





Number of people enslaved today:





27 million





Price traffickers receive for a trafficked woman in Turkey:





$2,500





Price of an hour with a woman from the Emporer's Club V. I. P., the online prostitution ring frequented by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer:





$5,500





DRUGS:





Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Colombia, South America:





$1,500





Price of one kilogram of cocaine in Miami:





$30,000





Chances that a U.S. one-dollar bill contains traces of cocaine:





4 in 5





Percent of total world trade accounted for by the illegal drug industry:





8





Ratio of opium production in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007:





2:1





Percent of worldwide heroin production accounted for by Afghanistan:





92





ARMS:





Barter rate for an AK-47 in Kenya in 1986:





10 cows





Barter rate for an AK-47 in Kenya in 2001:





2 cows





Total value of illegal small arms and light weapons trade:





$1 billion





Percent of global weapons sales accounted for by the U.S.:





36





Ratio of guns to people on the planet:





1:10





Ratio of guns to people in the U.S.





9:10









ART:





Reward for stolen painting by Vermeer:





$5 million





Total value of the black market in art:





$6 billion





Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S. in 2006:





14, 981





Number of pieces of art stolen in the U.S in 2007:





16, 117





-Lapham's Quarterly, ("Crimes & Punishments" Vol. II, Number 2, Spring 2009. Image: Screenshot - " Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne," starring MariaCasares, directed by Robert Bresson, 1945).

