Anoka County is the fourth-most-populous county in Minnesota, with a population of over 367,000. The county seat is the city of Anoka, and the largest city within the county is Blaine. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metro region, including within Anoka […]
Limestone County is part of the Huntsville, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area, and has a population of about 108,000. The county seat is Athens, a city located along Interstate 65 in northern Alabama, north of Birmingham and near Huntsville. Another city in the county that has addressed demand is Decatur. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have […]
Brookhaven is a city of about 55,000 residents in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta and is located in western DeKalb County. Prostitution and sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) have been well-documented problems in Brookhaven. For example, in July 2021, Brookhaven police arrested six people at three massage parlor locations in the city. In […]
Trumbull County is in northeast Ohio and has a population of just over 200,000 residents. Its county seat is the city of Warren. The county is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been identified as substantial problems in the county. For example, over the course of 2011 and […]
Cortland is a city in Trumbull County, Ohio, with a population of about 7,000 residents. It is located on the eastern shore of Mosquito Creek Reservoir about 20 miles north of Youngstown (part of that city is in Trumbull County, the remainder in Mahoning). Prostitution activity has been well-documented in Cortland and in nearby communities […]
Newburgh Heights is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with a population of about 2,000 residents. 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 result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. […]
Pope County, Minnesota has a population of about 11,000, and its county seat is the city of Glenwood. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented within the county, generating ancillary crimes and complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Consumer-level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and […]
Swift County is located in western Minnesota, located west of the Minneapolis–St. Paul area along the Chippewa River. The population of the county is roughly 10,000, and its larger towns include Benson, Danvers, Holloway, and Appleton. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the county. The problem has been prevalent enough to warrant […]
Pennington County is in northwestern Minnesota, about 50 miles east of Grand Forks. The population of the county is about 14,000 residents, over half of whom reside in the city of Thief River Falls. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the communities and unincorporated areas of Pennington County. This activity and the […]
Cuyahoga County is located in northeastern Ohio and its population center is the city of Cleveland. In 2019, the county had approximately 1.235 million residents. The county also contains a number of other communities that have had substantial and persistent sex trafficking and prostitution problems. The county has experienced a wide range of negative events […]
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