Consumer-level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for prevention and response.  To identify and apprehend local sex buyers driving the prostitution and sex trafficking markets, the Thomasville Police Department (TPD) has conducted stings, reverse stings, and patrols that focus on responding to these problems. For example, in February 2018, three people were arrested and charged in Thomasville as a result of an undercover prostitution sting. Thomasville Police had received numerous complaints about the Stevens Street and Green Street area, prompting increased patrols and undercover stings in the area.  In February 2019,  Thomasville Police made a prostitution arrest in response to several complaints about prostitution in local neighborhoods. The TPD increased patrols around Wall and Booker Streets, and one night an officer caught a man and woman inside a vehicle parked behind a vacant home on Wall Street. The woman was charged with prostitution, the man was charged with solicitation, and their names and photos were published in news reports.