Fresno is a city of approximately 526,000 residents, located in Fresno County in central California. Street prostitution has posed significant problems for the city, and police reports have noted complaints from local business owners and residents for decades. Multiple cases of sex trafficking (of both adults and minors), and targeted assaults, robberies, and homicides of […]
Fremont County is a largely rural area in south-central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains, situated near Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Its largest city and county seat is Canon City, CO. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known to occur in the area. Reports of robbery and violence against individuals engaging in commercial sex have been documented. Among the […]
Fredericksburg is a suburb of Washington, DC with 28,000 residents, located in northern Virginia. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have posed considerable problems in the city for over two decades, with activities frequently concentrated in and around Fredericksburg truck stops along Interstate 95. In one particularly high-profile case, federal prosecutors investigated a “prolific sex trafficker” who had […]
Frederick is a city of approximately 80,000 residents that serves as the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. It is situated between Hagerstown and Gaithersburg along Interstate 27o in the northern part of the state. Prostitution activity generates numerous complaints to police, and these complaints play a role in police devoting the resources to prostitution operations. […]
Franklin Park is a village of 18,000 residents near Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. One of the key prostitution problems in the city is street prostitution occurring along Mannheim Road, a major “stroll” cutting through several suburbs of Chicago. Since at least 1996, the Franklin Park Police Department has collaborated with the Cook County Sheriff’s […]
Fort Worth is a city in Texas with a population of about 935,000 residents located about 40 miles west of Dallas. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles, and crosses into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker and Wise. Prostitution has been well documented in Fort Worth for more […]
Fort Walton Beach is a city in Florida located about 65 miles west of Pensacola in the northwestern part of the state, with a population of approximately 21,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and unincorporated areas of Okaloosa County. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes […]
Fort Wayne is a city of approximately 267,000 residents, located in Allen County, Indiana, about 30 miles from the Ohio border. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city, spanning decades. Reverse stings have been utilized in the city as a means to apprehend sex buyers since 1991. In one of stings in […]
Fort Smith is a city of approximately 90,000 residents, situated along Arkansas’ northwest border with Oklahoma in Sebastian County. Prostitution has been associated with a number of local problems and has generated complaints to police. Among the more serious issues associated with the city’s commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. For example, in 2010, […]
Fort Pierce is a city of about 47,000 located in southeastern Florida. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and violence associated with commercial sex have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas for decades. For example, a man with a history of sexual deviancy spanning five years was arrested in July 2021 on murder charges. The man […]
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