Cheektowaga is a town in Erie County, New York. It is located in the north-central part of the county and is a suburb of Buffalo. The town has a population of approximately 77,000 and is the second-largest suburb of Buffalo after the Town of Amherst. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been well documented in the […]
Robeson County is a county in the southern part of North Carolina, and has a population of 116,000 residents. Its county seat is Lumberton, NC. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the county for decades. This activity and its ancillary crimes have generated residential complaints to local law enforcement. Among the […]
Grand Forks County is located in Eastern North Dakota and has a population of about 70,000 residents. Its county seat and largest city is Grand Forks. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to occur in the city and surrounding areas dating back to the late 1800s when the railroads were being built. Prostitution increased […]
Shelburne is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont. It is a suburb of Burlington located on the shore of Lake Champlain, and has a population of roughly 7,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the area have been well-documented for over a decade. For example, in February 2013, a man was sentenced in U.S. District Court […]
Burleigh County is a county of approximately 96,000 residents in North Dakota. It contains the state’s capitol city, Bismarck. The county has a history of problems associated with prostitution, and more recently has documented cases of sex trafficking. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is the sex trafficking of […]
Jasper County is the southernmost county in South Carolina, with about 30,000 residents. Its county seat is Ridgeland and its largest city is Hardeeville. Prostitution is a well-documented problem in the county. For example, in December 2020 the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office arrested four people in Hardeeville during a raid targeting prostitution in the area. The […]
With a population of approximately 73,000, Bismarck is the capitol of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. The city has a long history of prostitution and the problems associated with it, including sex trafficking and illicit massage businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is child […]
Santa Clara County is located south of San Francisco, and has a population of about 1,936,000. The county seat and largest city is San Jose, the 10th most populous city in the United States. Other communities of note within the county include Milpitas and Campbell. The county has long-running, well-documented problems with commercial sex […]
Vancouver is a city of nearly 200,000 residents, situated directly across the Columbia River from Portland, OR. It is the county seat and largest city of Clark County, Washington. It is a part of the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro Metropolitan Statistical Area which has a combined population area of approximately 2.5 million residents. Similar to Portland, the City […]
Minot is a city of about 48,000 residents situated along Highway 2 in Northern part of North Dakota. It’s the county seat of Ward County. Prostitution and sex trafficking, including through illicit massage businesses, are well-documented problems in the county, generating numerous complaints to police from the community. The problems increased substantially due to the […]
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