Durham County, NC
Categories:
Tactics Used |
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Auto Seizure | ✓ |
Buyer Arrests | ✓ |
Cameras | ✓ |
Community Service | ✓ |
Employment Loss | ✓ |
Identity Disclosure | ✓ |
IT Based Tactics | ✓ |
John School | ✓ |
Letters | ✓ |
License Suspension | ✓ |
Neighborhood Action | ✓ |
Public Education | ✓ |
Reverse Stings | ✓ |
SOAP Orders | ✓ |
Web Stings | ✓ |
Durham County, North Carolina had a population of approximately 327,000, making it the sixth-most populous county in the state. It has well-documented problems with sex trafficking and prostitution, including cases of organized child sex trafficking and multi-state prostitution rings based out of the city of Durham (the county seat). The main tactics used to combat demand for local commercial sex are street-level and web-based reverse stings. In 2008, a reverse resulted in nine arrests for solicitation. In 2004, the Durham Police Department began posting the names and pictures of arrested sex buyers on their website. The names, ages, and addresses of arrestees were also published in local media outlets. The police department named this program Prostitution Impact Mitigation Program, or PIMP. Many of these efforts to combat human trafficking have been in response to complaints from the community.
Key Partners
- Durham County Sheriff’s Office
- Durham Police Department
Key Sources
Street-Level Reverse Stings:
- “Durham Police Arrest 13 in Prostitution Sting”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, December 23 2004.
- “Prostitution Sting Nets Seven Arrests”, Raleigh News & Observer, July 15 2006.
- “14 Arrested in Prostitution Sting”, Raleigh News & Observer, October 15 2006.
- “Inmates Arrested during Prostitution Sting”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, July 16 2007.
- “Work-Release Program Investigated after Inmates Caught in Prostitution Sting”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, July 16 2007.
- “Prostitution Arrests Include 3 Prisoners”, Raleigh News & Observer, July 17 2007.
- “Durham Officers Arrest 24 People in Two-Day Sting”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, September 15 2008.
- “Police Bust More than Two Dozen in Undercover Prostitution Sting”, NBC/WNCN-TV 17, November 24 2009.
- “Police Arrest 21 People in Prostitution Operation”, Durham Herald-Sun, April 28 2012.
- “Police Arrest 21 People in Prostitution Operation”, McClatchy Tribune-Regional News, April 28 2012.
Identity Disclosure:
- “Durham Police Get PIMP; People Arrested on Prostitution Charges to Have Photos on Web”, Durham Herald-Sun, December 8 2004.
Documented Violence Against Individuals Engaged in Prostitution in the Area:
- “Retired Police Officer Says He Didn’t Kill Prostitute”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, June 24 1997.
- “Durham Police Seek Help Solving Gruesome Murder”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, May 13 2004.
- “Man Pleads Guilty to Stabbing Prostitute 70 Times”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, December 13 2007.
- “Woman in Backpack May Have Been Shot in Head”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, November 24 2010.
- “Woman Shot to Death in Front of Durham Church”, NBC/WNCN-TV 17, February 26 2014.
- “Durham Commissioner: Woman Died in Neighborhood Beset by Drugs, Prostitution”, Raleigh News & Observer, February 27 2014.
Background on Prostitution and Child Sex Trafficking in the Area:
- “Bell Calls for More Aggressive Crime Measures after Murders”, Duke Chronicle, October 3 2002.
- “Briefs”, Durham Herald-Sun, June 7 2003.
- “Prostitution Stings Result in 7 Arrests”, Raleigh News & Observer, November 19 2005.
- “14 Women Charged with Prostitution”, Raleigh News & Observer, July 4 2006.
- “Officers Charged 6 with Prostitution”, Raleigh News & Observer, December 30 2006.
- “Nine Face Charges in Prostitution Sting”, Raleigh News & Observer, April 24 2007.
- “Some Durham Officers Cleared in Sex Probe”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, December 6 2007.
- “2 Durham Officers Resign Amid Sex Probe”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, January 18 2008.
- “AG’s Office Asked to Review Police Prostitution Case”, NBC/WNCN-TV 17, May 23 2008.
- “Operation Leads to Drop in Area Crime”, Duke Chronicle, October 8 2008.
- “Successful Initiatives Have Durham Crime Rate’s Dropping”, Duke Chronicle, July 1 2011.
- “Police Charge 21 in Durham Prostitution Investigation”, Raleigh News & Observer, April 27 2012.
- “Visiting High Schoolers Hire Prostitutes in Durham”, CBS/WRAL-TV 5, September 7 2012.
- “Durham Police Arrest 7 in Prostitution Sting”, NBC/WNCN-TV 17, May 1 2013.
- “Durham Police Tout Efforts to Cut Crime in Violent Part of City”, NBC/WNCN-TV 17, October 10 2013.
- “Operation Bull’s Eye Targets Durham Crime”, Duke Chronicle, October 23 2013.
- http://www.newsobserver.com/durham-police-charge-two-people.html (2014)
- https://indyweek.com/news/durham/will-take-durham-clean-area-around-n.c.-central/ (2016)
- https://abc11.com/3-charged-in-prostitution-bust-at-massage-parlor-in-durham-county/ (2019)
- https://www.wral.com/14-men-including-unc-professor-and-durham-county-ems-worker-charged-with-soliciting-prostitution/ (2019)
- https://www.wral.com/durham-massage-parlor-operator-pleads-guilty-to-prostitution-charges/ (2019)
State | North Carolina |
Type | County |
Population | 326126 |
Location |
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