Howards Grove, WI
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 | ✓ | 
Howard’s Grove is a small city of about 3,000 residents located south of Green Bay, Wisconsin near Sheboygan. To our knowledge, Howard’s Grove has not conducted typical reverse stings, using a police decoy or an online decoy advertisement to entice sex buyers and gather evidence necessary for arrest. However, there has been one instance of a creative variation on a web-based reverse sting. Police observed an ad placed by a sex buyer seeking a prostituted woman. Police responded to the ad using a female officer as a decoy. They arrested the man and provided his name, photo, and other information to news outlets.
Key Sources
Web-Based Reverse Sting, Identity Disclosure:
| State | Wisconsin | 
| Type | City | 
| Population | 3252 | 
| Location | 
		    
		
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