Fitchburg is a city with a population of about 40,000 located 60 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. Fitchburg citizens and businesses have at times been very active in complaining and providing tips to police about prostitution activity. Between 2012 and 2014, police had received an average of over 50 prostitution complaints per year. The local […]
Fife is a city in Washington state, located east of Tacoma, in Pierce County. It has a population of approximately 10,350 residents. Situated at the juncture of Interstate 5 and State Route 167, the city “consists primarily of businesses such as car dealerships, warehousing and industrial facilities, motels, an Indian casino, drive-through smoke shops, quick-dining […]
Fern Park is a census-designated place with a population of approximately 8,300. Fern Park is located in Florida, 10 miles north of Orlando. Indoor prostitution is a well-known problem in the city. For example, in 1997, three spas were raided, and 23 people indicted for a range of crimes related to prostitution, including money laundering. […]
Federal Way is a city of 99,000 residents located King County, Washington. Among the problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been targeted sexual assault of disabled persons, targeted homicide against prostituted women, and sex trafficking of children. In 2014, a Federal Way man admitted to having sex with a 51-year old woman […]
Fayetteville is a city of approximately 209,000 residents, located about 60 miles south of Raleigh in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Street prostitution and child sex trafficking have posed considerable problems for the city for decades, with illegal activities frequently concentrated along major roadways leading to and from Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installment situated […]
Fargo is an eastern North Dakota city of approximately 124,000 located in Cass County. Police report that commercial sex is a substantial problem in the area, especially at local hotels and motels. In recent years there have been more sex trafficking-related arrests in the area. The majority of commercial sex in the area has moved […]
Falls Church is a city of approximately 15,000 residents in Fairfax County, Virginia. The city is part of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. Prostitution and child sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city. Police efforts to combat these problems include the use of anti-demand tactics. In October 2009, the Street Crimes Unit of the […]
Fall River is a city of approximately 94,000 residents, located 18 miles east of Providence in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Both prostitution and sex trafficking of children are well-documented local problems, and at least one serial killer who specifically targeted prostituted women has operated in the city. In an effort to curtail prostitution activity in the […]
Fairview is a census-designated place of roughly 11,000 residents in the greater San Francisco Bay area, in southeastern Alameda County near Hayward, California. Child sex trafficking and prostitution have been documented within the city for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local […]
Fairmont is a city of about 18,000 residents located in Marion County, in the northern part of West Virginia. Sex Trafficking and prostitution have been well-documented problems in Fairmont and throughout the county for decades, including a case in which a mother offered her daughter to be sexually abused in exchange for money. Among the […]
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