Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County with approximately 136,000 residents. It is located just northeast of Los Angeles, abutting Glendale. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city […]
Palm Beach County is a county of approximately 1.5 million residents located on the eastern shore of Florida. Prostitution and sex trafficking are longstanding problems in the area. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide, and serial killers who […]
Orlando is located in Orange County in central Florida, with a population of approximately 307,000. City officials and residents have identified prostitution and sex trafficking as substantial problems locally. For example, prostituted women have been murdered in Orlando, and men have been arrested for child endangerment for having toddlers present in their vehicles while they […]
Oklahoma City is located in central Oklahoma and has a population of approximately 650,000 residents. Prostitution has been a well-documented problem in Oklahoma City dating back at least to the 1970s, and sex trafficking cases have occurred since at least the 1980s and continue through the present. Some cases of local sex trade activity have […]
Oakland is a city of approximately 434,000 residents, located just east of San Francisco on the San Francisco Bay. While there are areas of affluence, most of the city can be described as working class to poor; in 2007, 17% of city residents lived below the poverty line. The city’s economy has been particularly hard […]
Norwalk is a city of approximately 91,000 residents, located between Darien and Westport in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Situated at the juncture of U.S. Route 7 & Interstate 95, the city has dealt with persistent and visible prostitution activity along its major roads for more than four decades. Local forced prostitution and child sex trafficking cases have […]
Newport News is a mid-sized city with about 180,000 residents situated on a peninsula near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, in southeastern Virginia in Matthews County. Among the distinguishing features of the area including Newport News, Hampton, and Norfolk are the seaports, shipyards, and military presence (Army, Air Force, and Navy). Prostitution and sex trafficking […]
Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, with a population of approximately 307,000. It serves as the government seat of Essex County. The city has documented problems related to prostitution spanning several decades (including documented cases of the sex trafficking of both adults and minors, and targeted homicides of prostituted and trafficked persons) and […]
New York City is the largest city in the United States, with approximately 8.8 million residents. It is comprised of five boroughs, including Manhattan as the center of the metropolis. New York has a long history of prostitution and sex trafficking, and the wide range of crimes associated with commercial sex markets in the city […]
New London is a community in coastal Connecticut with a population of approximately 28,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented local problems; several prostitution-related robberies and homicides have also been documented. A wide range of tactics have been employed to reduce consumer-level demand for commercial sex, which drives both prostitution and sex trafficking. The […]
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