El Cajon is a city of approximately 105,000 residents, located 16 miles east of San Diego in California. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the city and surrounding areas, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the […]
Edison, also known as Edison Township, is located in central New Jersey’s Middlesex County. The township has a population of roughly 100,000. Documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the city, particularly along Route 27 and in massage businesses serving as fronts for illegal brothels, generating complaints to police and other types […]
Easton is a city of approximately 28,000 residents in eastern Pennsylvania, located in Northampton County, PA, on the eastern edge of the Lehigh Valley near Allentown and Bethlehem. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city and greater county area for decades. This activity and its ancillary crimes has resulted in reports […]
Easton is a town with a population of about 17,000 located in the eastern part of Maryland on Chesapeake Bay. Prostitution and sex trafficking are substantial problems in the area, including human trafficking, and the sexual assault and murder of women and girls in prostitution. For example, in September 2008, seven women came forward to […]
East Bridgewater is a town of about 14,500 located about 26 miles south of Boston. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the community have been well documented problems for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for […]
East Baton Rouge Parish is part of the Baton Rough Metropolitan area and contains about 453,000 residents. Techniques such as reverse stings and sex buyer identity disclosure have been used to combat prostitution and sex trafficking. In 2006, a two-day reverse sting resulted in 15 sex buyer arrests. The names and dates of birth of […]
Durham is a city of about 276,000 residents located 30 miles northeast of North Carolina’s capital, Raleigh. It is the county seat of Durham County. Cases of prostitution, sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking are prevalant within Durham. Ancillary crimes as well as serious crimes against prostituted women, including assault and murder, have also been […]
DuPage County is the second-most populous county in Illinois, with approximately 926,000 residents. It is located 40 miles west of Chicago. Among the serious problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking in the county have been murders and serial homicides specifically targeting prostituted women and girls. Although the majority of the county’s law enforcement efforts […]
Duluth is a city of approximately 86,000 residents located in Beltrami County, in northeastern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. Documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the city, with Native American women and girls reported to be particularly vulnerable. To address these and other problems inevitably generated by prostitution, law […]
Duluth is a city with a population of approximately 31,000 located about 25 miles north of Atlanta. Prostitution activity has been known to occur in Duluth; to combat this, reverse stings have been conducted since at least 2011. In one operation, a teacher was arrested and fined $1,300 after being caught trying to buy sex […]
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