Moon Township is part of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan area and has a population of roughly 28,000 residents. Prostitution has been identified as a substantial problem in the city by residents and police. For example, in 2004, one person in Moon was arrested for prostitution. However, more recently, police have noticed a rise in commercial […]
Montgomery County is a county of over 1 million residents, located in Maryland just northwest of Washington, D.C. The county seat is Rockville. Another city in the county that has used demand tactics is Gaithersburg. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the county, resulting in complaints to law enforcement. Since about 2o1o, law […]
Montgomery is the state capital of Alabama and has a population of roughly 200,000. The local commercial sex market has been linked to a wide range of serious crimes, such as child sex trafficking, and the rape and assault of prostituted women. For example, a 2008 trial provided an overview of a serial rape case. […]
Monroe County is located in the Detroit/Ann Arbor metropolitan area of Michigan, and has a population of about 155,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and nearby communities. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious […]
Monroe Charter Township is a township of approximately 15,000 residents, located in southeast Michigan near the Ohio border. In response to a spike in prostitution activity in the township’s truck stops, Michigan State Police conducted a series of street-level reverse stings in rest areas along I-75 in the early 1980s. Operations typically employed an undercover […]
Monroe is a city in south-central North Carolina, near Charlotte, and has a population of 35,000. Street and business-based prostitution has posed considerable problems in the community for several years; in addition, the city has served as the operating base for at least one serial rapist and murderer who specifically targeted prostituted women. Among their […]
Modesto is a city of approximately 219,000 residents, located in central California’s Stanislaus County about an hour south of Sacramento. The city has struggled with street prostitution and sex trafficking along its major roads for more than 50 years. While local law enforcement issued citations to sex buyers found as they focused on arresting prostituted […]
Mobile is a port city on Alabama’s Gulf Coast. It is the county seat of Montgomery County, AL and, with a population of roughly 185,000 residents, it is the third most populous city in the state of Alabama. Numerous problems have been linked to prostitution locally, including sex trafficking of children, and the rape, assault, […]
Missoula is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Montana with a population of approximately 75,000 residents. It is the largest city and county seat of Missoula County, MT. Cases of prostitution date back to at least 1917, when the local paper reported that the red light district “ceased to exist” after the new […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (pop. approximately 425,000) and St. Paul have had well-documented, persistent problems with prostitution and sex trafficking for decades. Collateral crimes have included the sex trade-related production of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, commonly referred to in legal codes as “child pornography”), rape, assault, theft, murder of prostituted and trafficked women, […]
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