New Brunswick is a city of about 57,000 residents located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented in the city and surrounding areas. For example, in 2013, two juvenile girls, ages 15 and 17, were rescued from an internet prostitution ring after an investigation by the New Brunswick Police Department […]
Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island immediately east of New York City, with a population of roughly 1.39 million. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified as substantial and longstanding problems in many areas of Long Island. The area has hosted relatively high-end, international prostitution or “escort” services, as well as lower-level […]
Nashville is a city of nearly 700,000 residents located in central Tennessee. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by numerous constituencies as substantial problems in Nashville for many decades, and have generated many related crimes occurring in commercial sex transactions, including kidnapping, rape, assault, homicide of prostituted persons, weapons and drug offenses, human trafficking, […]
Myrtle Beach is a coastal city of approximately 30,000 residents, located near Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It is a major tourist area in the southeast, attracting an estimated 14 million visitors each summer. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and numerous associated crimes have been well documented as substantial problems in the city and surrounding areas, […]
Moorhead is the largest city in northwestern Minnesota, with a population of roughly 45,000 residents, and is the county seat of Clay County. The city is situated along the Minnesota-North Dakota border and is the Minnesota portion of the Fargo, ND metropolitan area. Prostitution and sex trafficking are substantial issues in the area and have […]
Montgomery County is a county of over 1 million residents, located in Maryland just northwest of Washington, D.C. The county seat is Rockville. Another city in the county that has used demand tactics is Gaithersburg. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the county, resulting in complaints to law enforcement. Since about 2o1o, law […]
Monroe Charter Township is a township of approximately 15,000 residents, located in southeast Michigan near the Ohio border. In response to a spike in prostitution activity in the township’s truck stops, Michigan State Police conducted a series of street-level reverse stings in rest areas along I-75 in the early 1980s. Operations typically employed an undercover […]
Missoula is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Montana with a population of approximately 75,000 residents. It is the largest city and county seat of Missoula County, MT. Cases of prostitution date back to at least 1917, when the local paper reported that the red light district “ceased to exist” after the new […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (pop. approximately 425,000) and St. Paul have had well-documented, persistent problems with prostitution and sex trafficking for decades. Collateral crimes have included the sex trade-related production of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, commonly referred to in legal codes as “child pornography”), rape, assault, theft, murder of prostituted and trafficked women, […]
Millville is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey with a population of roughly 28,000, near Vineland and Bridgeton. Prostitution and sex trafficking have posed persistent problems in the community for decades, and continue to generate complaints to law enforcement. Among the reported crimes linked to the local commercial sex market are minors involved in prostitution […]
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