Snohomish County is located in the Puget Sound region of Washington, due North of Seattle, and has a population of approximately 834,000. Key cities within the county include Everett and Lynnwood. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by law enforcement as problems in the county, and residents have complained to police about prostitution in […]
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. […]
SeaTac is a city of approximately 31,000 residents in Washington state, located in the southern suburbs of Seattle, WA in King County, WA. Not formally incorporated as a city until February 1990, SeaTac comprises the areas in and around the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Prostitution and sex trafficking continue to pose formidable problems for local law […]
Scranton is a city of approximately 77,000 residents, located in northeast Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County near Wilkes-Barre. Local law enforcement has reported a wide range of crimes and other problems related to prostitution for decades, and residents have complained to police about prostitution in certain neighborhoods. International and domestic sex trafficking networks and rings have also […]
Schenectady is a city of approximately 67,000 residents, located 20 miles northwest of Albany. It is the county seat of Schenectady County, New York. Street prostitution has been reported in the city for over forty years. Additionally, in the early 1980s, police had identified the city as a “stop” on a major domestic sex trafficking […]
Schaumburg is a suburb of Chicago and has a population of approximately 77,000. It is located in Cook County. Prostitution and sex trafficking has been documented problems in the city, and throughout the county, and Schaumburg residents have complained to police about prostitution and its related problems in multiple neighborhoods. One local sex trafficking case involved […]
Santa Monica is a beachfront city located directly West of Los Angeles, within Los Angeles County, CA, and has a population of approximately 91,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by law enforcement as substantial problems in the city, and generated residential complaints to police. The city has also faced significant issues regarding […]
Santa Cruz is a coastal city of just under 63,000 residents, situated along the central California coast, south of San Jose. Local residents and law enforcement have reported numerous problems with prostitution, sex trafficking, and related crimes for at least two decades. Sex trafficked girls have been discovered during anti-prostitution investigations in the city on multiple occasions; in at […]
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, which is located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay area. It is the third-largest city in California, with a population of just under one million. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been identified by law enforcement and residents as substantial problems in the […]
San Francisco is the leading population center of Northern California and the Bay Area, with a population of approximately 815,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented, long-standing problems locally, and have been linked to cases of serial killers targeting individuals selling sex, numerous additional murders, and assaults on sex buyers as […]
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