Faulkner County is located in Central Arkansas and has a population of about 125,000. Conway is the county seat and is located in the state’s most populous metropolitan statistical area, near Little Rock. The county has long-running problems associated with commercial sex activity, and during prostitution operations police often seize drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine, […]
Union County, South Carolina has a population of roughly 27,000 and its county seat is the city of Union. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is sex trafficking. […]
San Diego County occupies the territory between the Mexican border and the Los Angeles Metro region and Los Angeles County. It is one of the largest counties in the United States, geographically, and is among the most populous with approximately 3.3 million residents. Its location as a border County makes it a major point of […]
Shoreline is a city in Washington state of approximately 57,000 residents located in King County, WA, nine miles north of Downtown Seattle bordering the northern Seattle city limits. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city, particularly along the portions of Aurora Avenue that run from southern Shoreline to northern Seattle. The stretch […]
Daleville is a city in Dale County, Alabama, with a population of about 5,100. It is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented problems locally for years. Among the harms of the local sex trade have been cases of sex trafficking of children and a wide range of […]
Oshkosh is a city of roughly 67,000 residents, located in Wisconsin’s Winnebago County south of Appleton. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been reported in the community since at least the 1970s, if not earlier. In their efforts to reduce commercial sex and related crimes locally, the Oshkosh Police Department have conducted reverse stings. In […]
Muskegon Heights is a small city of close to 10,000 residents, situated northwest of Grand Rapids near Muskegon and Norton Shores in Muskegon County, Michigan. Prostitution has posed chronic and visible problems in the community for several years. In 2012, for example, two adults and one juvenile female were convicted of kidnapping a woman involved […]
Fort Collins is a city of roughly 169,000 residents, situated 65 miles north of Denver in Larimer County, CO. For at least two decades, instances of prostitution, particularly those arranged online and conducted within city hotels and adult-oriented businesses, have been reported throughout the county. Numerous cases of prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation, […]
Bellevue is a suburb of about 150,000 residents in King County, WA. It is located across Lake Washington from Seattle. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city and have generated, in addition to complaints to police from the community, an array of serious felonies such as robbery, weapons offenses, and serial rapists […]
Lansing is a city of less than 30,000 residents, located in eastern Illinois in Cook County, near Hammond, Indiana and south of Calumet City, Illinois. Cases of prostitution and child sex trafficking have been documented in the community. For example, in 2013, two men faced charges following an investigation into alleged child sex trafficking at […]
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