Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County with a population of about 170,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-known problems in the city and in surrounding communities. The city has developed a reputation as a place men can buy sex, and the city has been identified by police and social services as a stop on […]
Fresno is a city of approximately 526,000 residents, located in Fresno County in central California. Street prostitution has posed significant problems for the city, and police reports have noted complaints from local business owners and residents for decades. Multiple cases of sex trafficking (of both adults and minors), and targeted assaults, robberies, and homicides of […]
Fort Smith is a city of approximately 90,000 residents, situated along Arkansas’ northwest border with Oklahoma in Sebastian County. Prostitution has been associated with a number of local problems and has generated complaints to police. Among the more serious issues associated with the city’s commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. For example, in 2010, […]
Flint is a city in Michigan with a population of about 81,000, located 60 miles northwest of Detroit. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been persistent problems in Flint and throughout the region for decades. Among the wide range of collateral crimes and other problems arising from the commercial sex industry have been cases of infants […]
Fayetteville is a city of approximately 209,000 residents, located about 60 miles south of Raleigh in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Street prostitution and child sex trafficking have posed considerable problems for the city for decades, with illegal activities frequently concentrated along major roadways leading to and from Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installment situated […]
Everett is a city of 112,000 residents located in Snohomish County, Washington, just 25 miles north of Seattle. It has a population of roughly 112,000 residents. Among the problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been the sexual exploitation of minors and targeted sexual assault against prostituted women. For example, in October 2018, […]
Evansville is a city of about 118,000 residents, located in Vanderburgh County in southwestern Indiana. City law enforcement has fielded complaints about prostitution from residents and businesses for decades. The city has also documented multiple cases of targeted sexual assaults and homicides of prostituted women, and at least one case of forced prostitution (i.e., sex […]
As the second largest city in Oregon, Eugene has a population of approximately 170,000 residents and is the county seat of Lane County. The city is home to the University of Oregon and is situated along the Willamette River. Prostitution and sex trafficking are known problems in the city, and the ancillary crimes they generate […]
Erie County is located in the western part of New York, bordering Lake Erie. The county seat is Buffalo, and the population is approximately 960,000. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office has worked closely with local police departments in executing reverse sting operations. Though the area began using reverse stings in 1997, the Erie County Sheriff’s […]
Erie is the fourth largest city in Pennsylvania, with a population of approximately 100,000. It is an industrial city located in the northwestern part of the state, bordering Lake Erie. And documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking in the city date back to the 1950s. For example, in November, 1952 Erie police arrest two […]
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