Aberdeen is a village of about 1,500 residents within Huntington Township in Brown County, located along the Ohio River approximately 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati. The village has had multiple cases of both prostitution and domestic minor sex trafficking. Police responses to these problems have been driven in part by complaints from residents. The Aberdeen […]
Romeoville is a village of approximately 40,000 residents, located southwest of Chicago near Joliet in Will County, Illinois. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known to occur in the city, and have generated complaints to police from residents. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted […]
Signal Hill is a city of approximately 12,000 residents, located near Long Beach and Lakewood in Los Angeles County, CA. Problems associated with the local commercial sex market include child sex trafficking and cases of men raping and battering prostituted women in the community. In the early to mid-1990s, in response to numerous complaints over […]
Ontario is a city of approximately 178,000 residents, located in southwest San Bernardino County near Fontana and Pomona, California. The Ontario Police Department has conducted reverse stings in the area, including ones at a major motel chain on North Vineyard Avenue and a truck stop near Interstates 10 and 15, a crossroads for overnight truckers. […]
East St. Louis is a city of approximately 26,000 residents, located in St. Clair County, Illinois directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Prostitution has a long history in the economically distressed city, at least since the 1930s in areas near the river and an area called The Valley where East St. Louis had […]
Collingswood, New Jersey is a borough in Camden County of approximately 14,000 residents, located just east of Camden. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented problems in the city and surrounding areas. In response to residents’ and business owners’ complaints of increased prostitution activity, the Collingswood Police Department conducted a street-level reverse sting in October […]
Ypsilanti Township, a Michigan city of roughly 56,000 residents near Ann Arbor, has identified prostitution as a substantial local problem for decades. Local law enforcement have also linked commercial sex to other serious crimes, including sexual and physical assaults that specifically targeted prostituted and trafficked women. The Ypsilanti Township Police Department has frequently collaborated with […]
Ypsilanti is a city of approximately 20,000 residents, situated in Michigan’s Washtenaw County just east of Ann Arbor. Prostitution has posed persistent and visible problems in the community for several years, and have generated numerous complaints from local residents and business owners. Cases of child sex trafficking, as well as targeted sexual assaults on persons […]
York is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, located in York County in south-central Pennsylvania. To curtail commercial sex and its related crimes in the city, the York City Police Department has used patrol officers to conduct anti-prostitution investigations – both reverse stings targeting sex buyers, and stings targeting prostituted women. The Chief of Police […]
Worcester is a city of approximately 206,000 residents, located about 40 miles west of Boston and 40 miles east of Springfield, in central Massachusetts. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city, surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. This activity, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to […]
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