Greenwich is a town of under 64,000 residents located in southwestern Connecticut and is a suburb of New York City. The Greenwich Police Department works with Stamford police and other nearby agencies to conduct prostitution operations, including reverse stings. In 2011, undercover officers conducted a web-based reverse sting in which they posted decoy online ads […]
Greenville County is the most populous county in the state of South Carolina, with a population of approximately 534,000 residents. Its government seat is Greenville, SC. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in Greenville County, in the city of Greenville, in surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and […]
Greenville is a city in northwestern South Carolina, with a population of approximately 72,000 residents. It is the county seat of Greenville County, SC. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to occur in the city. For example, in 2012 an Upstate man was arrested for child sex trafficking in Greenville. The sex trafficker’s arrest […]
Greensboro is a city in northern North Carolina with a population of just under 300,000. Among the many documented problems associated with prostitution in the city has been the activity of two different serial murderers who specifically targeted local prostituted women in the 1990s. One sex trafficking incident of concern to the community involved the […]
Greenburgh is a town of approximately 95,000 residents, located near White Plains in Westchester County, New York. It includes the village of Elmsford. Law enforcement have reported problems related to prostitution, particularly activities arranged online and occurring in local hotels and motels, for several years. Cases of robbery of sex buyers and the assault and […]
Greenacres is a city of approximately 32,000 residents, located in Palm Beach County in southeast Florida. Prostitution activity has been reported locally for at least two decades, and has brought with it a wide range of collateral crimes and led to community complaints. For example, in 2016 a man had his 2-year-old son with him when […]
Granite City is a city of 29,000 residents located in Madison County, Illinois and situated in the greater St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city for decades. In response to complaints by residents, Granite City police have attempted to combat consumer-level demand by conducting street-level and […]
Grand Rapids, Michigan has a population of approximately 200,000 and serves as the government seat of Kent County. The city and surrounding areas have had well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking, spanning decades and resulting in complaints to law enforcement. Problems related to the local commercial sex market include cases of drugs involved in […]
Gordon Heights is a hamlet and census-designated area with roughly 4,200 residents within the town of Brookhaven, located in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented as problems within the town and surrounding areas for decades. To address the consumer demand underlying the area’s commercial sex market, which […]
Goldsboro is a city of about 33,000 residents located in eastern-central North Carolina. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the area, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by […]
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