Palm Springs, located in California, has a population of roughly 45,000. Prostitution is a documented problem in the city, and includes the homicide of at least one prostituted woman, another murder of a prostituted woman by a convicted serial killer, and the presence of large-scale prostitution rings. The serial killer who targeted prostitutes was Andrew Urdiales, who […]
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 […]
Palm Beach is a community located in Palm Beach County, FL, north of Fort Lauderdale near West Palm Beach, with a population of roughly 9,000 annually (and about 30,000 seasonally). Prostitution and child sex trafficking are documented problems in the city. To address prostitution problems in the city, police have conducted reverse stings. In 1989 […]
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 […]
Pajaro is a census-designated place of roughly 3,500 residents, situated on the south bank of the Pajaro River in Monterey County, California, located south of Santa Cruz near Watsonville. Law enforcement have fielded complaints from residents about prostitution in the city. In July 2009, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation that resulted in […]
Painesville is a community of approximately 21,000 residents, situated along Lake Erie east of Cleveland near Willoughby in Lake County, Ohio. Prostitution is a problem that the Painesville Police Department has focused on as a “quality of life” issue that they do not want to see become more widespread. At least one case of attempted child sex trafficking […]
Oxnard is a city in Ventura County with about 202,000 residents, located to the northwest of Los Angeles, on the Pacific coast near the city of Ventura, California. Prostitution has been a documented, persistent problem in the city for decades, and has included cases of child sex trafficking. News archives discuss local prostitution in 1902, […]
Overland Park is the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas, with about 197,000 residents. It is located in Johnson County in the southwestern suburbs of Kansas City, Kansas. Prostitution and sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) have been reported in the community for several years. Law enforcement has reported that complaints from residents […]
Ouachita Parish has a population of just over 159,000 residents, and is located in northern Louisiana. In addition to city-level efforts in the parish’s largest communities (Monroe and West Monroe), the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office occasionally conducts anti-prostitution operations in the area. Complaints from the residents and businesses within the area have played a role […]
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 […]
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