Jupiter, a city of approximately 61,000 residents, is located near West Palm Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County. Prostitution and sex trafficking of minors have been identified by law enforcement as substantial problems in the city, and residents have complained to police about prostitution in several neighborhoods. Prostituted persons have also been murdered in the […]
Muscatine is a city of less that 25,000 residents near Davenport, in Eastern Iowa. Prostitution and sex trafficking investigations have occurred in the city, dating back to the 1800s. A news article from 1873 described a local case of a man beating and sexually assaulting a young woman, insisting she engage in prostitution. During an […]
Prairie Township is one of the nineteen townships of Franklin County, Ohio. It is located in the Columbus area and has a population of about 17,000 residents. Prostitution in the town is well-documented, and has presented problems such as a case of an HIV positive woman continuing to engage in prostitution. In response to community […]
Clinton Township is one of the 19 townships of Franklin County, Ohio. It is located in the Columbus area and has a population of about 4,100. In response to community complaints about prostitution, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office has conducted reverse stings and publicized the identities of the arrested sex buyers. Some of the reverse […]
Franklin County is a county in central Ohio that has a population of approximately 1.3 million residents. Its government seat and largest city is Columbus. Prostitution has been a problem in the county for decades, and more recently, numerous cases of sex trafficking have been investigated, and subsequently resulted in convictions. For example, in October […]
Danbury is a city of approximately 87,000 residents in eastern Connecticut, about an hour’s drive north of New York City. Police have received frequent complaints about prostitution in some areas of the city. To address prostitution, police have used tactics targeting the demand for commercial sex. The Danbury Police Department’s Special Investigations Division and the […]
Graves County is a rural area in Kentucky with a population of about 37,000. Prostitution in the county has been identified as problematic and has been connected to drug trafficking and sex crimes, such as rape. Police have fielded complaints about prostitution occurring in the county. In 2012, police decided to target consumer-level demand for […]
Worthington is a rural borough of less than 600 residents outside of the Pittsburgh metro area in Western Pennsylvania. Although reports of prostitution activity in the community appear limited, the Worthington Police Department has conducted at least one demand-reduction effort after receiving complaints from residents about suspected solicitation of prostitution. In late 2012, Worthington residents complained […]
Tice is a small suburb of Fort Myers, Florida, with approximately 5,000 residents. It is situated in Lee County. Community complaints about prostitution in neighboring homes have driven law enforcement efforts to address prostitution in the town. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office conducted at least one reverse sting in Tice in October of 2012, resulting […]
Inwood is a census-designated place of approximately 7,000 residents, located near Winter Haven and Lakeland in Polk County, Florida. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has conducted many street-level reverse stings in the area due in part to frequent complaints from residents, business owners, and public officials. Notably, in February 1989, PCSO deputies staged a sex […]
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