Abolition Initiative

The Abolition Initiative is a non-profit organization, financed by the Chase Action Fund of heiress Bridie Chase, promoting "end-demand" strategies towards eradicating prostitution and sex trafficking. One method of promoting such strategies is to offer "grants" to local police departments if they adopt the Initiative's plans. When Chase sent two representatives of the Initiative to offer a grant to Stallbrook's Chief of Police Delbert Graham, he not only refused to accept it but had the representatives arrested for attempted bribery. Some years later, Chase then finances Adara Khan, a graduate student and intern at L+B Consultants, to research Graham's policies of de-facto decriminalization with the hope of showing them to be a failure. This also backfired, as Khan concluded from the evidence that Graham's policies were in fact effective at increasing safety for sex workers while more effectively dealing with trafficking. Khan also demonstrated that L+B Senior Consultant Wolfe O'Cleary had distorted data to produce predetermined conclusions in a number of reports supporting the Initiative's strategies, leading to his dismissal and undermining the Initiative's work.
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