Coon Rapids is a city of approximately 63,000 residents in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. It is the largest city in Anoka County. According to Coon Rapids Police Department officials, there has been concern in recent years that prostitution sting operations by Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park Police Departments has pushed prostitution activity across […]
With about 6,000 residents, Watford City is in Northwestern North Dakota that serves as the county seat of McKenzie County. Since 2000, a relatively large proportion of the population have been male workers in the energy sector. Prostitution activity has been documented in the city and surrounding areas. Among the more serious concerns associated with […]
Jupiter, a city of approximately 61,000 residents, is located near West Palm Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County. Prostitution and sex trafficking of minors have been identified by law enforcement as substantial problems in the city, and residents have complained to police about prostitution in several neighborhoods. Prostituted persons have also been murdered in the […]
Franklin County is a county in central Ohio that has a population of approximately 1.3 million residents. Its government seat and largest city is Columbus. Prostitution has been a problem in the county for decades, and more recently, numerous cases of sex trafficking have been investigated, and subsequently resulted in convictions. For example, in October […]
Roseville is a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, and has roughly 36,000 residents. The Roseville Police Department has routinely made prostitution arrests, as noted frequently in police crime blotters. Cases of sex trafficking have also been investigated in the city, such as a 2012 case involving a 17-year-old girl, for which […]
La Crosse is a city of approximately 52,000 residents in western Wisconsin, near the Minnesota border and about midway between Madison, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prostitution has been a documented problem in this city since the mid 1800s. For example, between 1951 and 1956, there was a federal campaign against organized interstate prostitution – much of […]
Prairie Village is a small city of about 23,000, situated near Overland Park, KS among the suburbs of Kansas City, KS. Prostitution and sex trafficking are substantial problems in the area. We know of one reverse sting that occurred in Prairie Village, a web-based operation conducted in August 2012. The police department posted a decoy […]
Rossford is a small city of approximately 6,000 residents in Wood County, Ohio, located near Perrysburg and Toledo. Its major prostitution and sex trafficking problems have been attributed to its proximity to highways and the Toledo metropolitan area. News reports of widespread truck stop prostitution in Rossford and other communities along the Interstates 75 and […]
Eau Claire is a city of approximately 70,000 residents, located in Eau Claire County in the Chippewa Valley area of western Wisconsin. Sex trafficking and prostitution activity are known to occur in the region for decades, and associated problems include drug and weapons offenses, sex trafficking, and the robbery of sex buyers. For example, between 1951 […]
Ypsilanti Township, a Michigan city of roughly 56,000 residents near Ann Arbor, has identified prostitution as a substantial local problem for decades. Local law enforcement have also linked commercial sex to other serious crimes, including sexual and physical assaults that specifically targeted prostituted and trafficked women. The Ypsilanti Township Police Department has frequently collaborated with […]
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