Cumberland County is located in southern Maine and contains the state’s largest city – Portland – as well as smaller cities including Brunswick, Cumberland, and Scarborough. In 2020 its population was roughly 295,000. Cases of sex trafficking and other problems associated with commercial sex have been well documented for many years. For example, in 2014, a […]
Cumberland County is in central North Carolina with roughly 335,000 residents, making it the state’s fifth most populous county. The county contains the city of Fayetteville and has had numerous well-documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking, in addition to a wide range of crimes involving prostituted persons and sex buyers. For example, in May […]
Covington is a suburb in the greater metro area of Cincinnati and has a population of about 41,000. The first reverse sting conducted in the city occurred in 1984 and resulted in the arrest of 10 sex buyers. Complaints by residents drive prostitution operations by police, including reverse stings. The city has used both street-level […]
Cumberland County is a county of approximately 260,000 residents in western Pennsylvania and its county seat is Carlisle, PA. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is known to have been on regional sex trafficking circuits since the 1980s, if not before, and local prostitution has been a persistent […]
Council Bluffs is a city of roughly 62,000 residents, located on Iowa’s western border near Omaha, Nebraska. Complaints from residents about prostitution date back to the 1870s, when the city was a Western frontier town. More recently, the community has documented multiple cases of sex trafficking (of both adults and minors), and targeted sexual assaults and homicides of women selling sex. In their efforts […]
Cottage Grove is a city of approximately 40,000 residents, located just south of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Washington County, Minnesota. Prostitution activity, at times involving minors, has been reported in the city for years. In October 2015, for example, a 43-year-old man was arrested and charged with “engaging in prostitution with a 16-year-old and […]
Costa Mesa is a city of about 111,000 residents, located near Newport Beach and Huntington Beach in Orange County, California. Local residents and law enforcement have reported problems with chronic prostitution, both occurring indoors and along major thoroughfares (i.e., Harbor Boulevard) for several decades. The city has also documented multiple cases of sex trafficking, and […]
Corpus Christi is a city of approximately 318,000 residents, located on the southeast coast of Texas. Most of the city lies within Nueces County, but the boundaries also extend into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. Instances of prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city for decades. Corpus Christi police and public […]
Corona is a city of approximately 160,000 residents, situated south of Riverside near Yorba Linda in Riverside County, California. The Corona Police Department has staged many street-level reverse stings, and has engaged in some web-based reverse stings as well. Sex buyers have been arrested and warned about the risks of soliciting sex with people engaged […]
Coram is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brookhaven on Long Island, in Suffolk County, with a population of about 40,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented in the area for decades, and remain problematic to the present. In March, 2019, five men were arrested on multiple charges after authorities […]
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