South Salt Lake is a city of approximately 26,000 residents, located just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Both prostitution and child sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city, and throughout the region. For example, in 2013, a sex trafficking ring was investigated and dismantled by law enforcement officials; in doing so, officers discovered […]
Sioux City has approximately 86,000 residents, and is located in western Iowa along the Nebraska border, north of Omaha and south of Sioux Falls along Interstate 29. Prostitution has been a well documented problem in the city for decades, and residents have complained to police about the wide range of problems it poses in their […]
Sharonville is a city of approximately 15,000 residents in southwestern Ohio, situated just north of Cincinnati, located in Hamilton County, OH. Prostitution is a well-documented problem in the city, and local experts estimate that the vast majority of persons engaged in commercial sex are victims of sex trafficking or are under the control of a […]
Seneca is a city of approximately 9,000 residents, located in Oconee County in northwestern South Carolina. On at least three occasions, law enforcement in Seneca have initiated investigations targeting sex buyers. In July 2008 and June 2010, officers with the Seneca Police Department conducted street-level reversals along city streets using a female undercover officer as […]
Seaford is a city in Sussex County, Delaware with a population of approximately 15,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city, and have generated numerous complaints from residents. For example, in October, 2015, Delaware State Police detectives arrested two women at a Seaford area massage parlor after receiving citizen complaints of prostitution […]
Sault Ste. Marie is a city in northern Michigan, abutting the Canadian border, and has a population of approximately 13,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by law enforcement as problems in the city, and throughout the rest of Chippewa County. The activity has generated numerous complaints from residents to police about prostitution. In […]
Santa Rosa is located in Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco, and has a population of roughly 177,000 residents. As in the neighboring cities of Rohnert Park and Novato, prostitution and sex trafficking have posed persistent and visible problems in the area for several decades and has generated ongoing complaints from local residents. The […]
Sandy is a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, with a population of approximately 97,000, situated in Salt Lake County. Prostitution has posed considerable problems in the community for decades, generating related cases of sex trafficking and sexual assault. In particular, multiple cases of the violent “forced prostitution” (i.e., sex trafficking”) of minors have been […]
San Francisco is the leading population center of Northern California and the Bay Area, with a population of approximately 815,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented, long-standing problems locally, and have been linked to cases of serial killers targeting individuals selling sex, numerous additional murders, and assaults on sex buyers as […]
San Diego, a city of 1.4 million residents in Southern California, has had well-documented and serious problems associated prostitution and sex trafficking for many decades. A large military presence has helped to boost the demand for commercial sex in the city, and in addition to the large supply of domestic victims, the proximity to Mexico […]
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