Glendale, CA
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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 | ✓ |
Glendale is a city of 192,000 in the greater Los Angeles area, located in Los Angeles County, CA. Local prostitution is associated with a wide range of crimes and other problems, including child sex trafficking and the targeting of prostituted women for serial rape and homicide.
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. Tactics used by the community include those focusing on reducing demand for commercial sex. The Glendale Police Department conducts street-level reverse stings about four times per year and has recently conducted web-based reverse stings. Police also run a public education and awareness campaign addressing the demand for commercial sex. Reverse stings have occurred in the city since 1988, and possibly before. For example, in 1992, a street-level reverse sting operation resulted in the arrest of 24 male sex buyers. The men were arrested after attempting to solicit sex from undercover female officers. During a reversal in October of 2013, two female police decoys arrested five sex buyers during a four-hour operation. The men were released from the scene, with orders to appear in court at a later date. In addition to reverse stings, police have also apprehended offenders as a result of other investigations or from routine traffic stops. For example, in 2008, in what had initially began as a drug arrest, resulted in the arrest of two men suspected of sex trafficking underage girls at a local motel. Police then decided to conduct a reverse sting at the motel, which resulted in the arrest of four male sex buyers.
Loss of employment is another consequence of buying sex that has occurred within the city. For example, in February of 2016, a charge against a former Glendale police sergeant accused of soliciting a prostituted woman at a Las Vegas casino was dismissed after he paid a $1,000 fine, “stayed out of trouble,” and completed an AIDS awareness class. The offender had been arrested and charged in 2014 after attempting to solicit sex from undercover detective posing as a prostituted person in exchange for $250, in addition to $25 in gas money. After his arrest, the officer was placed on paid administrative leave, and then retired from the Glendale Police Department.
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National Assessment Survey (2012)
Reverse Stings:
- “Police Arrest 2 Men in Adult-Video Store”, Daily News of Los Angeles, January 6 1988.
- “Decoy Operations Nab 11”, Daily News of Los Angeles, December 23 1989.
- “Undercover Officers Arrest 11 in Vice Sweep”, Los Angeles Times, December 28 1989.
- “Glendale: Briefly”, Daily News of Los Angeles, June 30 1990.
- “Glendale Vice Sweep Nets 19; Undercover Officers Posed as Prostitutes”, Daily News of Los Angeles, August 14 1991.
- “Police Net 24 Men in Prostitution Sting”, Los Angeles Times, February 6 1992.
- “Burbank/Glendale: Briefly”, Daily News of Los Angeles, August 27 1993.
- “Police Nab 15 in Prostitution Sting”, Glendale News-Press, May 26 2000.
- “Police Sting Nets Seven for Soliciting”, Glendale News-Press, April 1 2006.
- “Prostitution Sting Nets 6 Arrests”, Glendale News-Press, November 15 2008.
- “Prostitution Sting Nets 11 Arrests”, Glendale News-Press, June 16 2001.
- “Prostitution Sting Nets 6 Arrests”, Glendale News-Press, May 1 2003.
- “Undercover Prostitution Sting Nets 5 Arrests in Glendale”, Glendale News-Press, October 25 2013.
Sex Buyer Fired or Resigned Due to Arrest:
- https://lasvegassun.com/calif-police-sergeant-accused-soliciting-undercove/(2014)
- https://www.latimes.com/charge-dropped-against-former-glendale-police-sergeant-accused-of-soliciting-prostitute (2016)
Sex Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation in the Area:
- “Two in Prison for Youth Porn Ring”, Daily News of Los Angeles, March 4 2006.
- “Prostitution Sting Nets 6 Arrests”, Glendale News-Press, November 15 2008.
Background on Prostitution in the Area:
- “Man Arrested in Male-Model Pandering Case”, Los Angeles Times, September 14 1980.
- “Glendale Vice Squad Fights Successful Battle Against Prostitution”, Daily News of Los Angeles, October 30 1988.
- “Prostitution Stings Net 6 Arrests”, Glendale News-Press, September 1 2007.
- “Prostitution Arrests Made in Glendale Vice Unit Sting”, Glendale News-Press, September 7 2007.
- “Alleged Prostitution Ring Busted”, Glendale News-Press, February 1 2008.
- “Police Arrest Nine in Sex Sting”, Glendale News-Press, June 6 2008.
- “Prostitution Rising in Glendale”, Glendale News-Press, June 2 2009.
- “Arrest at Alleged Massage Parlor”, Glendale News-Press, February 24 2010.
Documented Violence Against Individuals Engaged in Prostitution in the Area:
- “‘Strangler Task Force’ Increased”, Florence Times-Tri-Cities Daily, December 1 1977.
- “‘Hillside Strangler’ Probe Hampered by Dissension”, Eugene Register-Guard, December 28 1977.
- “Man to Be Charged as Strangler”, Milwaukee Journal, April 24 1979.
- “‘Hillside Strangler’ Suspect Enters Guilty Pleas”, Tuscaloosa News, October 20 1979.
- “Arrest Warrant Is Issued for Man Charged in 2 Rapes”, Daily News of Los Angeles, February 1 1986.
- “Prosecutor Still Seeks ‘Victim'”, Daily News of Los Angeles, February 4 1986.
- “Sex-Kidnapping Case Dropped; Alleged Victim Missing Again”, Los Angeles Times, February 6 1986.
- “Artist Admits Assaulting Prostitutes”, Daily News of Los Angeles, February 22 1986.
- “2 Plead Not Guilty to Robbing Prostitute at Glendale Motel”, Daily News of Los Angeles, September 27 1991.
- “Glendale Man Beaten After Allegedly Hiring Prostitute”, Glendale News-Press, October 15 2012.
- “Man Beaten, Robbed After Hiring Prostitute, Police Say”, Los Angeles Times, October 15 2012.
- “Glendale Man Arrested After He Allegedly Robs Prostitute”, Glendale News-Press, December 18 2012.
- “Jobless Glendale Resident Admits Raping Prostitutes”, Los Angeles Times, February 27 1986.
- “Hillside Jury Convicts Man in 3 Deaths”, Palm Beach Post, November 9 1983.
State | California |
Type | City |
Population | 192366 |
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