Anderson is a city of roughly 29,000 residents located in western South Carolina, about 20 miles southwest of Greenville. The city has had a substantial prostitution problem, as indicated by the level of complaints police receive from residents and businesses, the presence of neighborhood groups focused on addressing prostitution, and the presence of nonprofit organizations […]
Anchorage is a unified municipal consolidated city-borough and Alaska’s largest city, with a population of approximately 294,000. It is located in the south-central part of the state, well below the Arctic Circle. Anchorage residents comprise more than a third of the state’s population. Anchorage has a long history of widespread prostitution. Prostitution and its harms […]
Anaheim is a city of about 345,000 residents situated south of Los Angeles, CA, in Orange County, CA. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-known problems in Anaheim and in surrounding communities. The city has developed a reputation as a city with a large commercial sex market, and has been identified by police and social services […]
Amarillo is a city of approximately 200,000 residents, located two hours north of Lubbock, and lies within both Potter County and Randall County Texas. Residents and local law enforcement have reported problems with prostitution in the city for decades, specifically along Amarillo Boulevard. Cases of sex trafficking of children and the murder of prostituted women […]
Alton is a city of approximately 25,000 residents in southwestern Illinois’s Madison County, near Edwardsville and St. Louis. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented locally since at least the early 1990s. Cases of assaults on individuals exploited in commercial sex and homicides of sex buyers have also been reported. Among their efforts to […]
Altamonte Springs is a city of approximately 42,000 residents, located north of Orlando in Seminole County, Florida. Prostitution has been reported as a problem in the city dating at least to the 1980s, and has generated many complaints to police. Sex trafficking of minors and armed robberies of adults have also been documented, and a […]
Allentown is Pennsylvania’s third most populous city, with about 120,000 residents. It is the county seat of Lehigh County, located along the Lehigh River, in eastern Pennsylvania. It is an older industrial city with a history of substantial prostitution activity. In the 1970s and 1980s, the city was identified by police to be on a […]
Aliquippa is a small community of approximately 10,000 residents, located in the northwest suburbs of Pittsburgh in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Among the problems associated with prostitution in the city was the murder of a prostituted woman in 1994, and the murder of a sex buyer in 1995. To curtail prostitution activity along Franklin Avenue, the […]
Alexandria is a city of approximately 150,000 residents, located just south of Washington in Virginia. The presence of prostitution and sex trafficking in the city has been extensively documented, and local residents have reported suspected commercial sex and trafficking to local law enforcement. A wide range of problems driven by the commercial sex market have […]
Alexandria is a city of approximately 48,000 residents, located midway between Baton Rouge and Shreveport in central Louisiana. To curtail commercial sex sales in the area, the Alexandria Police Department (APD) conducted a handful of successful street-level reverse stings between 2007 and 2009. One such operation, dubbed “John-John Sweep”, resulted in the arrest of 31 […]
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