Tarrant County is situated in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The county seat is Fort Worth and as of 2023, its population is well over 2 million. It is Texas’ third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Like most large population centers, human trafficking and prostitution activity in the area have […]
Brown County is a county in Wisconsin, with a population of approximately 270,00 people. It is the fourth-most populous county in Wisconsin. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the county and surrounding area. For example, in December 2022, a Green Bay man was arrested on 11 charges, including several related to human trafficking. […]
Upper Merion Township is a Montgomery County suburb of Philadelphia, with a population of about 31,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by residents and law enforcement as substantial problems in Upper Merion and throughout the county, including nearby communities such as Norristown, Montgomery Township, and Pottstown. Upper Merion appears to be a staging […]
Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, with approximately 734,000 residents. It is the largest city and county seat of King County, WA. The city has struggled with persistent and widespread prostitution and sex trafficking problems for many years, with frontier brothels established in the community in the 1850s, decades before Washington statehood. […]
San Rafael is a city of approximately 61,000 residents, located in the North Bay Area of Marin County, California. Like nearby Richmond and Vallejo, the city has a longstanding and well-documented problem with street prostitution, often involving minors. Since 1995, local law enforcement and members of the media have reported at least 13 cases of […]
Portland is a city of roughly 650,000 residents situated in Northwestern Oregon, across the Columbia River from the city of Vancouver, WA. Portland is the population center of Multnomah County and the area has a long history of serious and visible problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking. For example, in January 2013, a 43-year-old […]
Phoenix is the largest commercial hub of and most populous city in Arizona, with approximately 1.625 million residents. It is the sixth largest city in the country, and serves as the county seat of Maricopa County. Situated within a day’s drive from the Mexican border and at the crossroads of several interstate highways, the Phoenix […]
Oakland is a city of approximately 434,000 residents, located just east of San Francisco on the San Francisco Bay. While there are areas of affluence, most of the city can be described as working class to poor; in 2007, 17% of city residents lived below the poverty line. The city’s economy has been particularly hard […]
New York City is the largest city in the United States, with approximately 8.8 million residents. It is comprised of five boroughs, including Manhattan as the center of the metropolis. New York has a long history of prostitution and sex trafficking, and the wide range of crimes associated with commercial sex markets in the city […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis (pop. approximately 425,000) and St. Paul have had well-documented, persistent problems with prostitution and sex trafficking for decades. Collateral crimes have included the sex trade-related production of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, commonly referred to in legal codes as “child pornography”), rape, assault, theft, murder of prostituted and trafficked women, […]
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