Bensalem Township is a township of approximately 61,000 residents, located in Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania. Prostitution and child sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the community and surrounding area, with activity frequently concentrated in and around the township’s many hotels and motels along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Since 2012, local law enforcement have reported at […]
Bellingham is a coastal city in Washington state of roughly 98,000 residents, along the United States-Canadian border in Whatcom County, WA. Bellingham has a history of prostitution and sex trafficking dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early 1900s, international sex trafficking rings transported women from Asia to the United […]
Bedford is a town of approximately 23,000 residents, located near Manchester in southern New Hampshire. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known to occur in the area, and in some cases, are linked to regional and international sex trafficking operations. Law enforcement agencies and others have targeted demand as a means of addressing the wide range of […]
Beckley, West Virginia is a small city of less than 17,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well documented local problems for decades. Community complaints about prostitution have led police to conduct prostitution operations. Reasoning that reducing demand would cause the market to contract and reduce the need for a supply to be present, […]
Beaver Falls is a town of less than 10,000 residents in Western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, located in Beaver County, PA. Prostitution has been recognized as a local problem for decades, and community complaints have played a role in police deciding to allocate resources and conduct investigations and enforcement operations. To combat the consumer-level demand […]
Beaumont is a city a Southeastern Texas city, located in Jefferson County, TX, and has a population of roughly 117,000 residents. Prostitution is a persistent and visible problem in the area, generating complaints to police from businesses and residents. Among the more serious problems associated with commercial sex in the area include sex trafficking and […]
Bay Shore is a hamlet and census-designated place located within the town of Islip, in Suffolk County, on the south shore of Long Island, New York. It has approximately 30,000 residents. Driven by community complaints, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department has conducted several street-level reverse stings using an undercover female officer as a decoy. To […]
Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana. It is also the state’s second largest city, with a population of nearly 222,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city and throughout the region, and generate many other crimes including homicide, robbery, child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), and drug and weapons offenses. For example, a […]
Banning is a city of nearly 30,000 residents located in the Inland Empire region of California, to the west of Riverside along Interstate 10. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to […]
Baltimore County is a county of approximately 850,000 residents, and includes the communities of Towson, Catonsville and Woodlawn. The county surrounds the independent city of Baltimore. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious […]
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