Aberdeen is a village of about 1,500 residents within Huntington Township in Brown County, located along the Ohio River approximately 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati. The village has had multiple cases of both prostitution and domestic minor sex trafficking. Police responses to these problems have been driven in part by complaints from residents. The Aberdeen […]
Lawton is a city of about 91,000 residents located in southwestern Oklahoma along Interstate 44. The city serves as the government seat of Comanche County. The local prostitution market has produced a number of documented problems, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicides, and has generated ongoing community complaints to police. Between 1999 and 2002, […]
Kennewick is a city of roughly 85,000 residents located in Benton County, WA. The cities of Pasco, Richland, and Kennewick form the metropolitan area known as the Tri Cities. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the Tri-Cities area. For example, in mid-2013, three Kennewick teenagers were arrested for coercing a 15-year-old girl into […]
Ottawa County has a population of about 32,000 and and is situated in the “Four States” area of northwest Oklahoma. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known to have occurred in the county, and among the efforts to ameliorate the many resulting problems was one large-scale operation that targeted sex buyers as well as pimps and prostituted women, […]
Stillwater is a city of about 48,000 residents in north-central Oklahoma, situated along the Interstate 35 corridor and about equidistant from Oklahoma City and Tulsa. It is the largest city and county seat of Payne County, OK. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known to occur in incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity […]
Elk City is a city of approximately 12,000 residents, situated along Interstate 40 and Route 66 in Western Oklahoma’s Beckham County. It is roughly equidistant between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, Texas. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented problems in the city for decades. For example, in 1986, agents of the FBI and Internal Revenue […]
Corvallis is a city of approximately 58,600 residents located in Benton County, OR. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to happen in the area dating back to World War II. The Corvallis Police Department (CPD), much like their counterparts in Albany, Salem, Eugene, and Portland, has conducted reverse stings to combat consumer-level demand. In June […]
Wake Forest is a town of approximately 30,000 residents, located just north of Raleigh in North Carolina. Although prostitution activity is reported to be fairly relatively in the town, officers from the Wake Forest Police Department (WFPD) contend that prostitution is often associated with serious crimes such as rape and assault. The WFPD has proactively […]
Roland is a small city of about 3,000 residents in eastern Oklahoma, near Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is located in Sequoyah County, and is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the […]
Grand Forks, the county seat of Grand Forks County, is a city of about 57,000 residents in eastern North Dakota. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to occur in the city and surrounding areas dating back to the late 1800s when the railroads were being built. Prostitution increased a great deal with North Dakota’s […]
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