Biloxi is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, situated in southern Mississippi’s Harrison County near Gulfport. Prostitution activity, including cases of alleged sex trafficking of adults and minors and assaults on individuals selling sex, has been reported in the community for several years. Though their efforts to target demand for prostitution appear limited, the Biloxi Police […]
Cranston is a city of roughly 83,000 residents, located just south of Providence in Providence County, Rhode Island, near Johnston and Warwick. Prostitution activity has been reported in the community for several decades. For example, in June, 2021, six massage parlors in Cranston were raided by police following complaints of a possible prostitution ring. The […]
McLennan County is located in central Texas and has approximately 263,000 residents. The city of Waco is the county seat, and other noteworthy communities within the county include China Spring and Woodway. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been reported in the county for several decades. In 2017 it was reported that the county ranked […]
Harrisonburg is a city of roughly 51,000 residents, located in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, northwest of Charlottesville. Prostitution activity, including incidents of sex trafficking of both minors and adults, has been reported in the community for decades. Cases of prostitution-related homicide have also been documented locally. In their efforts to reduce the wide […]
St. Cloud is a city of approximately 69,000 residents, located in central Minnesota’s Stearns County about 60 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Numerous cases of prostitution and sex trafficking, often arranged online, have been documented in the community for many years. In a relatively recent example in 2019, a 25-year-old man was sentenced to 20 […]
Tewksbury is a city of approximately 31,000 residents, situated in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, near Lowell and Andover. Prostitution, often arranged online, has been reported in the community for decades. Cases of sex trafficking have also been documented locally. Though the majority of their efforts appear to target sexually exploited persons for arrest over sex buyers, local […]
Shelby is a city of roughly 20,000 residents in the western part of North Carolina, near the western edge of Charlotte. It is the county seat of Cleveland County, and is located about 20 miles west of Gastonia. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking have been reported in the community for several years, and […]
East Palo Alto is a city of approximately 29,000 residents located in San Mateo County, CA near the City of Palo Alto, situated roughly equidistant between San Francisco and San Jose. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been reported in the community for several decades, as well as reports of homicide cases involving prostituted women. On […]
West Greenwich is a town of just over 6,300 residents, located in Kent County, Rhode Island near Warwick and Coventry. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have occurred in the community, and in response, local law enforcement has at times taken a proactive approach to curtail underlying demand for commercial sex. For example, in December 2015, […]
Coventry is a town of just over 35,000 residents, located in Kent County, Rhode Island near Warwick and West Greenwich. Although reports of prostitution and sex trafficking activity in the community appear limited, local law enforcement have taken a proactive approach to curtail underlying demand for commercial sex. For example, in December 2015, the Coventry […]
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