Poughkeepsie is a city of approximately 30,000 residents, situated midway between New York City and Albany in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified as problems in the city and throughout the region for decades, and are seen by residents and civic leaders as among the key components of community […]
Portland is a city of roughly 650,000 residents situated in Northwestern Oregon, across the Columbia River from the city of Vancouver, WA. Portland is the population center of Multnomah County and the area has a long history of serious and visible problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking. For example, in January 2013, a 43-year-old […]
Pompano Beach is a city of approximately 111,000 residents located north of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, Florida. Like many cities in the county, Pompano has struggled with chronic street prostitution along its three major highways– Interstate 95, U.S. Route 1, and Florida State Road 811– since at least the late 1980s. It was also one of […]
Polk County is an area that contains over 750,000 residents, and is located in central Florida. It contains the cities of Auburndale, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Inwood, Lake Wales and Davenport. Prostitution has been identified by police and others as a local concern, and there have been cases of sex trafficking, child endangerment, and prostitution-related child sexual […]
Platte County covers an area in western Missouri, just north of Kansas City, and has a population of roughly 109,000. Sex trafficking and prostitution are well documented problems locally, and generate a wide range of additional crimes. In an effort to reduce their prevalence and impact, local authorities have engaged in efforts to attack their […]
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, with approximately 300,000 residents. It serves as the government seat of Allegheny County. For decades, the city has experienced a wide array of problems associated with commercial sex, including sex trafficking and violence against prostituted and trafficked persons. For example, in May, 2022, a man faced facing multiple […]
Pierce County, located in the southern Puget Sound region of Washington state, has a population of roughly 921,000 residents. The unincorporated areas of the county as well as the cities within it (such as Tacoma, the county’s major population center) have identified prostitution as a persistent problem, and there have been numerous local cases of […]
Phoenix is the largest commercial hub of and most populous city in Arizona, with approximately 1.625 million residents. It is the sixth largest city in the country, and serves as the county seat of Maricopa County. Situated within a day’s drive from the Mexican border and at the crossroads of several interstate highways, the Phoenix […]
Philadelphia is a city of approximately 1.58 million residents, within Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It is the state’s largest city, and the fifth largest city in the United States. Prostitution and commercial sex trafficking have posed formidable problems for the city, with activities frequently concentrated in the Kensington area. Both street-level and indoor prostitution have generated […]
Panama City is located in the Florida Panhandle along U.S. Route 98, about midway between Tallahassee and Pensacola, It is the county seat of Bay County and has a population of roughly 36,000 residents. The Panama City Police Department has fielded numerous complaints about prostitution from residents and businesses for decades, and sex trafficking is […]
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