Appleton is a city of approximately 75,000 residents, located 100 miles north of Milwaukee in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as […]
Anne Arundel County is a county of approximately 590,000 residents, located south of Baltimore in Maryland. Its county seat, also the capital of the state, is Annapolis. Situated along Route 295, it contains a cluster of towns and unincorporated areas that are known for prevalent street- and hotel-based prostitution and sex trafficking (e.g, Laurel, Jessup, […]
Anchorage is a unified municipal consolidated city-borough and Alaska’s largest city, with a population of approximately 294,000. It is located in the south-central part of the state, well below the Arctic Circle. Anchorage residents comprise more than a third of the state’s population. Anchorage has a long history of widespread prostitution. Prostitution and its harms […]
Albuquerque is New Mexico’s largest city, with an estimated population of about 563,000 residents. It is located in the high desert of north-central New Mexico, along the Rio-Grande, and serves as the county seat of Bernalillo County. The city and greater county area have well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking […]
Akron is a city of approximately 190,000 residents, located south of Cleveland in Summit County, Ohio. Situated at the crossroads of Interstate 76 and 77, the city has struggled with chronic prostitution and sex trafficking activity along major roadways for decades. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in throughout both […]
Abilene is a city located in west central Texas in Taylor County, with a population of about 125,000. Among the problems associated with local commercial sex are assaults on prostituted persons. For example, in 2010 a teen-aged male pleaded guilty to raping a prostituted woman, and a 2017 case involved child sex trafficking and sexual […]
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