Bozeman is a city of about 55,000 in Southern Montana and is the county seat of Gallatin County, MT. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city and surrounding area. Records of Bozeman’s red-light district date back to the 1870s, when a successful madam came from Helena, MT. In an 1880 census, there were […]
Gallatin County is in Southern Montana, and with a population of roughly 111,000 residents, it’s the third-most populous county in Montana. Its county seat and largest city is Bozeman, MT. Prostitution and sex trafficking—including through illicit massage parlors—have been documented throughout the county. Additionally, violence had occurred during commercial sex investigations. For example, in 1971, […]
Morgan County is located in central Missouri, and has a population of about 21,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. For example, in […]
St. Croix County, Wisconsin, has a population of about 95,000, and is located across the state line from the St.Paul and Minneapolis Twin Cities metropolitan area. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in […]
Stillwater is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, and has a population of about 19,000. Stillwater is part of the Twin Cities Metro Area, and is located across the St. Croix River from Wisconsin. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city, and throughout the region. For example, in 2017, police revoked the license […]
Lakeville is a city of about 73,000 residents located in Dakota County, Minnesota. It is a suburb of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, approximately 20 miles south of both downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul. In November 2015, law enforcement officers from several agencies conducted an undercover sex trafficking sting in Lakeville. The detail involved officers from the […]
Ramsey County has a population of approximately 543,000, and its largest city and county seat is St. Paul, Minnesota’s state capital. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metro region. St. Paul has experienced a wide range of problems associated […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (in Hennepin County) and St. Paul (Ramsey County) have well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking dating back to at least the 1970s, and the local and regional commercial sex markets have involved the rape, assault, the murder of prostituted women, and the forced sex trafficking of pregnant women. Hennepin […]
Greenwood is a town of about 3,000 residents, located in southern Caddo Parish, in the northwest corner of Louisiana. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems throughout the parish and in the town of Greenwood. To address these issues, Caddo Parish deputies have collaborated with officers from municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and […]
Blue Earth County has a populaiton of about 67,000 and is situated southwest of Minneapolis, and abuts 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 […]
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