Eden is a small city of roughly 15,000 residents, located in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Prostitution, statutory rape, and other crimes arising from the sex trade are known to occur in the area. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement […]
Brentwood is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, located in the suburbs of Nashville in Williamson County, Tennessee, near Franklin. Cases of sex trafficking and prostitution have been reported in the community for years. To curtail local prostitution and sex trafficking, and the additional crimes they generate, the Brentwood Police Department has adopted a strategy that […]
Parker is a town and home rule municipality of approximately 60,000 residents, located in Colorado’s Douglas County about an hour’s drive southeast of Denver. Prostitution activity, at times involving minors, has been reported in the community for at least five years. In at least one instance, a local prostitution ring involving minors was linked to larger […]
Worthington is a small city of roughly 14,000 residents, located in southern Minnesota’s Nobles County. In 2015, the Executive Director of the Southwest Crisis Center confirmed that youth sexual exploitation and sex trafficking had occurred in southwest Minnesota in the past year, including in Nobles County. Among efforts to reduce prostitution in the community, local […]
Mason City is a city of approximately 27,000 residents, located in north-central Iowa’s Cerro Gordo County, about 80 miles northwest of Waterloo. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents […]
Winona County is a county of just under 50,000 residents, located in southeastern Minnesota. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the community, and have generated complaints to law enforcement. In addition to overseeing or assisting with city-level anti-prostitution efforts in Winona, county local law enforcement agencies have conducted at least two reverse stings. […]
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, […]
The City of Longmont is a home rule municipality of approximately 100,000 residents, located in Boulder County and Weld County Colorado. Longmont is located northeast of the county seat of Boulder, CO, near Greeley, CO, and 33 miles north-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, CO. Several high-profile cases of business-based prostitution have been […]
Bemidji is a city of about 15,000 residents, located in Minnesota’s Beltrami County, roughly halfway between Duluth and Grand Forks, North Dakota. The city abuts the Red Lake Indian Reservation, White Earth Indian Reservation, and Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Although reports of prostitution in the community remain limited, local law enforcement have initiated investigations targeting […]
Stroudsburg is a city of about 6,000 residents, located in eastern Pennsylvania’s Monroe County roughly an hour’s drive southeast of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Prostitution activity, often arranged online and occurring within local businesses and hotels, has been reported in the city for many years. Minors have also been discovered during prostitution stings. In March 2015, […]
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