Cincinnati is a city of approximately 312,000 residents, located in Hamilton County in southwestern Ohio. A wide range of problems stemming from the local commercial sex market have been documented, including child sex trafficking, and the kidnapping, rape, assault, and homicide of prostituted women. This activity and its ancillary crimes have resulted in complaints from […]
Cicero is a city of approximately 83,000 residents, located just west of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Street prostitution has been a persistent and visible problem in the area, with commercial sex frequently occurring along Cicero Avenue generating numerous complaints to police. Sex trafficking is also known to occur locally. To address these and other negative […]
Chicago Heights is a city of roughly 30,000 residents in northeastern Illinois, located in Cook County just south of Chicago. Many large scale stings have occurred since 1996 as a result of feelings on the part of police and residents that prostitution and sex trafficking “cheapens a community.” Also in 1996, a city ordinance was passed […]
Chicago is the major metropolitan center of Cook County, Illinois, with a population of over 2.7 million residents. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and related violence have well-documented and persistent problems in the city and throughout Cook County for decades. For example, between 1951 and 1956, there was a federal campaign against organized interstate prostitution – much […]
Charlotte is a city in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is the largest city in the state, with a population of approximately 880,000 residents. The city also has the highest number of reported sex trafficking cases in North Carolina each year, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Street prostitution has been a persistent and […]
Charleston is a coastal city with a population of 152,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented for over 140 years, and includes a relatively recent case of a prostituted woman being murdered in 2013. In November, 2021, three people were arrested after authorities discovered a prostitution and pornography-producing operation at a […]
Charleston is the capital city of West Virginia, and has a population of about 48,000. It is situated in Kanawha County. Residents and local law enforcement have reported problems related to prostitution in the city for decades, including the serial rape of 12 to 15 women engaged in prostitution in the mid-1990s through the early […]
Central Falls is a small city of approximately 22,000 residents, located in the northern suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island. Historically, much of the prostitution activity in the city was concentrated on and along Barton Street. As the street continues into the neighboring city of Pawtucket, and much of the illegal activity has traditionally “spilled” across […]
Carlisle is a borough of approximately 20,500 residents in western Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and serves as the county seat of Cumberland County, PA. The city is known to have been on regional sex trafficking circuits since the 1980s, if not before, and local prostitution has been a persistent problem, particularly along interstate trucking routes. Situated […]
Canton is a city of 70,000 in eastern Ohio’s Stark County. Prostitution and sex trafficking of both adults and minors have posed problems in the city for several decades. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious crimes […]
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