Davenport is a city on the eastern edge of Iowa on the Mississippi River. Davenport is the county seat of Scott County, and has a population of just over 100,000. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city for decades, and in some cases there has been extreme violence associated with […]
Davenport is a town of approximately 11,000 residents located in Polk County, in central Florida. It is part of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints […]
Darlington in a county in northeastern South Carolina. The county has a population of about 63,000, and includes the city of Darlington. The Darlington County Sheriff’s Office has conducted reverse stings at the local raceway using undercover officers. Investigators have also made arrests at local video stores and other locations operating brothels. The names, ages, […]
Dallas is a city located in Dallas County, TX and with a population of approximately 1.3 million residents, it is the ninth-largest city in the United States. Due to the city’s location, prostitution and sex trafficking have been significant issues within the city and in surrounding areas. The city of Dallas is a destination location […]
Dania Beach is a city of approximately 32,000 residents located near Hollywood, FL, in Broward County. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city and surrounding areas. To address the issue, Dania Beach Police has adopted several tactics targeting sex buyers, such as street-level reverse stings. Reverse stings have been conducted by the […]
Danville is a town of around 31,000 located on the eastern border of Illinois. It is the county seat of Vermilion County. The Danville Police Department has conducted street-level prostitution stings, arresting both prostituted women and the men who solicit them. The names, ages, and addresses of those arrested as well as where they were […]
Dakota County contains the southeast metropolitan area of St. Paul, Minnesota and has a population of about 442,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity in the county are well-documented. For example, in January 2013 a man was charged with allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old girls. The recruitment of these girls took place in […]
Cumberland County is located in southern Maine and contains the state’s largest city – Portland – as well as smaller cities including Brunswick, Cumberland, and Scarborough. In 2020 its population was roughly 295,000. Cases of sex trafficking and other problems associated with commercial sex have been well documented for many years. For example, in 2014, a […]
Cumberland County is in central North Carolina with roughly 335,000 residents, making it the state’s fifth most populous county. The county contains the city of Fayetteville and has had numerous well-documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking, in addition to a wide range of crimes involving prostituted persons and sex buyers. For example, in May […]
Cumberland County is a county of approximately 260,000 residents in western Pennsylvania and its county seat is Carlisle, PA. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is known to have been on regional sex trafficking circuits since the 1980s, if not before, and local prostitution has been a persistent […]
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