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Police at work, helping trafficked women.

Did you forget the /sarc tag?

There is zero suggestion that she was being "trafficked" in the article. In fact her dream was to open her own massage parlor. She moved to the USA legally, with her older husband, she wasn't smuggled in.

From what we can tell from the article the villains are the NYPD who were shaking her down for sex, threatening her with guns, covering up when she reported it, and then targeting her business which resulted in a suspicious death.

And, oh yeah, the article says other NYPD officer have been arrested for similar preying on masseuses.

As for:

There are organizations which help people get out of prostitution, but if the triads are involved its difficult.

Again, no mention of triads in the article. If they were involved ... well we know the NYPD was involved. Maybe the NYPD were pimping her? That would be a more logical conclusion from reading the story than the theories you are spinning out.

The NYPD has a long history of institutional corruption. The most famous whistle-blower, and only policeman up to that time to come forward with details on the institutionalized corruption of the NYPD, is Frank Serpico. Here's a fairly recent article he wrote for Politico:

The Police Are Still Out of Control I should know. By FRANK SERPICO October 23, 2014

Even now, I do not know for certain why I was left trapped in that door by my fellow police officers. But the Narcotics division was rotten to the core, with many guys taking money from the very drug dealers they were supposed to bust. I had refused to take bribes and had testified against my fellow officers. Police make up a peculiar subculture in society. More often than not they have their own moral code of behavior, an “us against them” attitude, enforced by a Blue Wall of Silence. It’s their version of the Mafia’s omerta. Speak out, and you’re no longer “one of us.” You’re one of “them.” And as James Fyfe, a nationally recognized expert on the use of force, wrote in his 1993 book about this issue, Above The Law, officers who break the code sometimes won’t be helped in emergency situations, as I wasn’t.

The NYPD famously set up one of their own, and didn't even call an ambulance for him as he lay bleeding in a hallway.

So, yeah, it's easy to believe some cop threw this Chinese lady off her balcony for crossing the "thin blue line".