Palm Beach County is a county of approximately 1.5 million residents located on the eastern shore of Florida. Prostitution and sex trafficking are longstanding problems in the area. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide, and serial killers who […]
Palatka is a city of roughly 11,000 residents, located in Florida’s Putnam County, southwest of St. Augustine. Law enforcement and local residents have noted problems with street prostitution in the city for decades years; individuals attempting to purchase sex in Palatka have also reported being robbed. Sex trafficking has also been well documented locally. For […]
Osceola County is an inland area in central Florida, south of Orlando, with a population of roughly 388,500 that includes the city of Kissimmee. Prostitution and sex trafficking of children are well-documented problems within the county. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by […]
Orlando is located in Orange County in central Florida, with a population of approximately 307,000. City officials and residents have identified prostitution and sex trafficking as substantial problems locally. For example, prostituted women have been murdered in Orlando, and men have been arrested for child endangerment for having toddlers present in their vehicles while they […]
Orange County is an area in central Florida with a population of roughly 1,430,000. The major population center of the county is Orlando, and it covers unincorporated areas and smaller cities. Prostitution is related to numerous problems in the county, including child sex trafficking. For example, in February 2022, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation arrested […]
Omaha, Nebraska is situated along the Missouri River, close to the Iowa border. Omaha is the seat of Douglas County, which contains over one-fourth of the Nebraska’s residents (585,000), most living in Omaha (population 487,000+), the county seat and the state’s largest city. Prostitution has generated numerous community complaints for decades, and sex trafficking has […]
Oklahoma City is located in central Oklahoma and has a population of approximately 650,000 residents. Prostitution has been a well-documented problem in Oklahoma City dating back at least to the 1970s, and sex trafficking cases have occurred since at least the 1980s and continue through the present. Some cases of local sex trade activity have […]
Odessa is a town of approximately 113,000 residents located in Ector County, West Texas, near Midland along Interstate 20. The city is not known for substantial street prostitution, but there have been numerous complaints and reports of indoor prostitution for decades, and cases of children present in residences where prostitution occurred (as well as having […]
Oakland is a city of approximately 434,000 residents, located just east of San Francisco on the San Francisco Bay. While there are areas of affluence, most of the city can be described as working class to poor; in 2007, 17% of city residents lived below the poverty line. The city’s economy has been particularly hard […]
Norfolk is a waterfront city in southeastern Virginia that has a population of approximately 245,000, and is home to a massive naval base on Chesapeake Bay. The city has had substantial, well-documented prostitution activity for decades, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the […]
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