Beverly Hills is an affluent city of approximately 34,000 residents, located in Los Angeles County, CA. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been pervasive issues in the city for decades. Among the more serious issues associated with the commercial sex market in the city has been the sex trafficking of adults and minors. For example, in […]
Bethlehem is a city of approximately 75,000 residents, located near Allentown in both Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania. Prostitution and sex trafficking cases have been reported in the area for years. This activity and its ancillary crimes has resulted in complaints to local law enforcement from residents and businesses. Reports of targeted violence against individuals […]
Berlin is a town of approximately 20,000 residents, located near Hartford and Meriden in central Connecticut. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been reported in the community for decades years, with activities often concentrated along the Berlin Turnpike. Among the other crimes occurring within local commercial sex transactions sex trade have been crimes against sex buyers. […]
Berks County is a county of approximately 429,000 residents, located in eastern Pennsylvania. The county’s seat and largest city is Reading, PA. Prostitution and sex trafficking are persistent and visible problems in the area. Among the more serious issues associated with the commercial sex market in the county is sex trafficking. Spurred by a series […]
Berkeley is a city of approximately 123,000 residents, located on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California. A wide range of crimes have occurred during prostitution transactions, including assault and battery with deadly weapons, drug trafficking, sexual assault, and serial murders specifically targeting prostituted women. Driven by community complaints and a need […]
Bentonville is a city of approximately 57,000 residents, located in Benton County in northwest Arkansas. It is best known for being the corporate home of Walmart. As the current hub of its operations, the city hosts a large number of businessmen and contract workers traveling to and from Walmart headquarters. Consequently, residents have noted an […]
Benton County is located in northeast Arkansas, north of Fayetteville, and contains the cities of Lowell, Rogers, Bentonville, and Siloam Springs. The county has a population of about 294,000 residents. Among the local problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been numerous cases of child sex trafficking. For example, one man was convicted […]
Bensalem Township is a township of approximately 61,000 residents, located in Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania. Prostitution and child sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the community and surrounding area, with activity frequently concentrated in and around the township’s many hotels and motels along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Since 2012, local law enforcement have reported at […]
Bellingham is a coastal city in Washington state of roughly 98,000 residents, along the United States-Canadian border in Whatcom County, WA. Bellingham has a history of prostitution and sex trafficking dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early 1900s, international sex trafficking rings transported women from Asia to the United […]
Bellflower is a city of about 77,000 residents that reportedly has a persistent prostitution problem, and the police department fields numerous complaints from residents. The city has made a substantial effort to address the problem by focusing on consumer-level demand. One street-level reverse sting in 1997 resulted in the arrest of 10 johns, and these […]
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