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When the Hotel Knew — and the City of Detroit Now Tells Them They Should You read it right. On January 12, 2026, in the small lobby of the Crystal Motel on Detroit’s east side, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison pinned the first of what will be hundreds of identical placards to a wall at the front desk. The sign carries a hotline number. It describes the warning signs of human trafficking — the cash-paying regular, the never-leaving room, the parade of men who walk in and out at odd hours. Angela Whitfield Calloway, the City Council member who led the fight for the ordinance, was there. Mayor Mary Sheffield was there. The cameras were there. The ordinance had been on the books since May 2024. The rollout had waited — quietly, deliberately — for the Detroit Auto Show, when thousands of visitors would flood into downtown hotels and short-term rentals, and when the kind of trafficking the ordinance is designed to combat historically spikes. The Crystal Motel on January 12 was not a news conference. It was the city’s formal acknowledgment of a fact Detroit had known for years: its hotels are trafficking corridors, and the people who run…