Pennington County is the second-most populous county in South Dakota, with a population of approximately 113,000 residents. Its county seat and largest city is Rapid City, SD. The county is located near the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range, and accommodates most of the tourist flow to Mt. Rushmore. Prostitution and sex trafficking […]
Burleigh County is a county of approximately 96,000 residents in North Dakota. It contains the state’s capitol city, Bismarck. The county has a history of problems associated with prostitution, and more recently has documented cases of sex trafficking. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is the sex trafficking of […]
Washington County is located in southwest Utah. St. George is the county seat and largest city, with approximately 191,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking (include child sex trafficking) are problems known to occur in the county. To reduce local commercial sex activity, county and municipal agencies collaborate to conduct occasional reverse stings, both at street-level […]
Muscogee County, Georgia is situated along the Alabama border, and has a population of approximately 200,000. Fort Benning, a major military base with roughly 120,000 residents, lies within the county. The city of Columbus serves as the county seat. Prostitution and sex trafficking cases in the county date back to the 1940s, if not earlier, […]
Big Spring is the county seat of Howard County, Texas, and has a population of about 26,000 residents. Prostitution activity in the area has a long, well-documented history. Prostitution became common on the Texas frontier after the Civil War, thriving at army forts, in cow towns and railroad towns, and other settlements. From the late […]
Weber County, Utah is the state’s fourth-most populous county, most living in the city of Ogden, the home of Weber State University. Police have investigated child sex trafficking rings operating within the county (e.g., in Ogden, Riverdale, West Haven), local prostitution involving adults has been widespread, and there have been cases of homicides of prostituted women. […]
Rockland County is located roughly 20 miles north of New York City, and is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River. Its population is over 325,000, and the county contains several small cities and towns including Clarkstown, Spring Valley, and Ramapo. Prostitution and sex trafficking rings are known to operate in […]
Douglas County contains over one-fourth of the Nebraska’s residents (566,000), most living in Omaha (population 480,000), the county seat and the state’s largest city. The county also includes unincorporated areas and smaller cities and towns, such as Ralston, Bennington, and Waterloo. Since prostitution and sex trafficking operations cross jurisdictional boundaries, many of the law enforcement […]
Skagit County is located in northern Washington state, and has a population of approximately 131,000 residents. It is situated directly north of Seattle, and the county’s northern border is Whatcom County. The county seat and largest city is Mt. Vernon (pop. approximately 35,000). The city of Mt. Vernon has had street prostitution and indoor prostitution […]
Whatcom County is a county of approximately 230,000 residents in Northern Washington state. It is situated directly north of Seattle, and the county’s northern border is the US border with the Canadian province of British Columbia. The county seat and largest city is Bellingham, WA. Research on the history of Whatcom County found that prostitution […]
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