Tulsa County is located in northeastern Oklahoma, and has a population of roughly 673,000 residents, making it the second most populous county in Oklahoma. Its county seat and largest city is Tulsa, OK, the second-largest city in the state. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented problems in this county, and the Northeast region of […]
Nicollet County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was just over 34,000. Its county seat is St. Peter. Nicollet County is part of the Mankato–North Mankato, MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution activity have been well-documented within the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary […]
Chillicothe is a city of approximately 22,000 residents in southern Ohio, located roughly 50 miles south of Columbus. Police have long known of the prostitution problem within the city and surrounding areas. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide. Police […]
Scottsbluff is a city of about 14,000 residents located in southwestern Nebraska, near the Wyoming border, in Scotts Bluff County. Authorities at local, state, and federal levels have identified the city’s proximity to Interstate 80 (specifically, located on the highway connecting Interstate’s 25 and 80) to be the primary factor in the level of prostitution […]
Baxter is a small city of less than 10,000 residents, situated in central Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, near Brainerd. In May 2015, officers with the Baxter and Brainerd Police Departments, and Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office, conducted what they described as a “first-of-its-kind” operation targeting sex buyers in the community. Law enforcement placed a decoy advertisement […]
Ashland is a city of approximately 20,000 residents, located in north-central Ohio’s Ashland County, near Mansfield. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for prevention and response. In their efforts to deter sex buyers and reduce the […]
Muskegon Heights is a small city of close to 10,000 residents, situated northwest of Grand Rapids near Muskegon and Norton Shores in Muskegon County, Michigan. Prostitution has posed chronic and visible problems in the community for several years. In 2012, for example, two adults and one juvenile female were convicted of kidnapping a woman involved […]
Calvert County is a county of just under 90,000 residents, located southeast of Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia, in southern coastal Maryland. In late April 2015, deputies with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, supported by officers from the St. Mary’s and Charles County Sheriff’s Offices and the Southern Maryland Information Center, conducted the county’s first […]
Owatonna is a small city of approximately 26,000 residents, located south of the Twin Cities and west of Rochester in Minnesota’s Steele County, at the juncture of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highways 14 and 218. In late March 2015, regional task force officers with the South Central Drug Investigative Unit conducted a reverse sting in Owatonna that […]
Mankato is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, situated southwest of Minneapolis in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in central Minnesota. Located at the juncture of U.S. Highway 14 and U.S. Highway 169, law enforcement has reported prostitution activity, as well as incidents of sex trafficking and prostitution-related robberies in the community in […]
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