Overland Park is the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas, with about 197,000 residents. It is located in Johnson County in the southwestern suburbs of Kansas City, Kansas. Prostitution and sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) have been reported in the community for several years. Law enforcement has reported that complaints from residents […]
Orlando is located in Orange County in central Florida, with a population of approximately 307,000. City officials and residents have identified prostitution and sex trafficking as substantial problems locally. For example, prostituted women have been murdered in Orlando, and men have been arrested for child endangerment for having toddlers present in their vehicles while they […]
Omaha, Nebraska is situated along the Missouri River, close to the Iowa border. Omaha is the seat of Douglas County, which contains over one-fourth of the Nebraska’s residents (585,000), most living in Omaha (population 487,000+), the county seat and the state’s largest city. Prostitution has generated numerous community complaints for decades, and sex trafficking has […]
Oklahoma City is located in central Oklahoma and has a population of approximately 650,000 residents. Prostitution has been a well-documented problem in Oklahoma City dating back at least to the 1970s, and sex trafficking cases have occurred since at least the 1980s and continue through the present. Some cases of local sex trade activity have […]
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 London is a community in coastal Connecticut with a population of approximately 28,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented local problems; several prostitution-related robberies and homicides have also been documented. A wide range of tactics have been employed to reduce consumer-level demand for commercial sex, which drives both prostitution and sex trafficking. The […]
National City, a city of about 56,000 residents near San Diego, has long been known for having a substantial problem with prostitution, particularly along a “strip” that crosses into San Diego. The National City Police Department (NCPD) began focusing on combating demand in the 1980s by conducting reverse stings. Knowing that the strip and its […]
Monroe County is located in the Detroit/Ann Arbor metropolitan area of Michigan, and has a population of about 155,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and nearby communities. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious […]
Missoula is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Montana with a population of approximately 75,000 residents. It is the largest city and county seat of Missoula County, MT. Cases of prostitution date back to at least 1917, when the local paper reported that the red light district “ceased to exist” after the new […]
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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