Volusia County is located in the east-central part of Florida, including the coastal area northeast of Orlando and south of Jacksonville. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, its population is over 500,000, and its county seat is DeLand. Commercial sex activity has posed considerable problems in the community for decades, and […]
Kitsap County is a county of approximately 275,000 residents in eastern Washington state, located on a peninsula across Puget Sound from Seattle, WA. Its largest city is Bremerton, WA and its county seat is Port Orchard, WA. The city of Bremerton is home to the Puget Sound Naval Base, a major U.S. Navy base. Additionally, in […]
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. […]
Chillicothe is a city of approximately 22,000 residents in southern Ohio, located roughly 50 miles south of Columbus. Police have long known of the prostitution problem within the city and surrounding areas. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide. Police […]
Santa Clara County is located south of San Francisco, and has a population of about 1,936,000. The county seat and largest city is San Jose, the 10th most populous city in the United States. Other communities of note within the county include Milpitas and Campbell. The county has long-running, well-documented problems with commercial sex […]
Janesville is a city of about 64,000 residents situated along Interstate 34, south of Madison, Wisconsin. Certain areas of the city have been known to experience prostitution activity. In recent years, local law enforcement agencies have reported substantial commercial sex activity with an increased use of web advertising to solicit prostitution. In September, 2022, a […]
Pensacola is a city of approximately 54,000 residents in Escambia County in western Florida. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city for many decades. Other crimes associated with commercial sex have also occurred locally, including the assault and murder of prostituted women and a serial killer who targeted prostituted persons […]
Parkland is a census-designated place in Washington state of approximately 38,000 residents, located just south of Tacoma in Pierce County, WA. Prostitution is a longstanding problem for the city and surrounding areas, with known cases of serial killers and serial rapists targeting prostituted women. Additionally, more common contributions to issues surrounding the area’s commercial sex […]
Wyandanch is a hamlet of just under 13,000 residents, located within the town of Babylon, in Suffolk County, New York. As in the neighboring communities of Copiague, and Amityville, prostitution emerged as a formidable problem in the late 1980s. Among the more serious problems associated with the local commercial sex market, was the murder of […]
Worcester is a city of approximately 206,000 residents, located about 40 miles west of Boston and 40 miles east of Springfield, in central Massachusetts. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city, surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. This activity, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to […]
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