Auburn is a city of about 86,000 residents in King County, Washington and is part of the greater Seattle/Tacoma metropolitan area. Problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking in the city include the activity of Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer who targeted over 60 prostituted women who were residents of Auburn and the greater region. […]
Auburn is a city of approximately 16,000 residents located in central Massachusetts, near Worcester in Worcester County. Local law enforcement have reported problems with prostitution and sex trafficking for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy […]
Atlantic City is a resort community with about 38,000 residents, located on New Jersey’s Atlantic coast. It is a major tourism destination, known for its many casinos, nightclubs, beaches, and a boardwalk. Atlantic City has had a well-known, longstanding, and robust commercial sex market. The market was historically street-level and hotel-based, and has more recently […]
Atlantic Beach, with a population of about 13,000 residents, is located on the Atlantic coast in Duval County near Jacksonville, Florida. Prostitution has long been the subject of complaints by the community for decades. In a recent example, an investigation into prostitution allegations was conducted after neighboring business owners and employees complained to police about […]
Atlanta, home to about 500,000 residents, is the capital of Georgia and the county seat of Fulton County. Atlanta was one of the “early adopters” of tactics used to combat demand for commercial sex. The city has been a pioneer in public education and awareness campaigns focused on demand for trafficked sex and prostitution. Reverse […]
Athens is a city of approximately 127,000 residents, located 70 miles east of Atlanta in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-established problems in the area, exacerbated by the proximity to Atlanta, a key hub in domestic and international sex trafficking circuits in the U.S. According to a supervisor within the Athens-Clarke County […]
Athens is a city of about 27,000 residents located along Interstate 65 in northern Alabama, north of Birmingham and near Huntsville. It is the county seat of Limestone County. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in […]
Ashtabula, Ohio is a city of about 18,000 residents. It is on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, about midway between Cleveland, Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania. At least seven street-level reverse stings have occurred in Ashtabula, between 2006 and 2015, in response to complaints from the community. Following each operation, the Ashtabula Police Department released […]
Ashland is a city of about 21,000 residents located at the northeastern tip of Kentucky along the Ohio and West Virginia borders, near Huntington. Ashland is the largest city in Boyd County. At least one reverse sting has been conducted there, leading to the arrest of two sex buyers. The operation, conducted at street level, […]
Ashland, a small city of about 21,000 residents, is located in Jackson County along the Interstate 5 corridor in Southwestern Oregon. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city. Among the more serious crimes associated with the area’s commercial sex market is child sexual exploitation. Local law enforcement agencies have targeted consumer-level demand […]
Demand Forum is powered by Street Grace and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and directed by Dr. Michael Shively, Street Grace’s Director of Research and Data Analysis. Dr. Shively and Abt Associates originally developed it with grant support from the National Institute of Justice. In January 2020, the website transferred to NCOSE. In January 2021, work began on a new NIJ grant to update and expand the content on Demand Forum. As of 2024, Demand Forum is now powered by Street Grace
