Perth Amboy is a city of approximately 52,000 residents, situated across the Raritan Bay from Staten Island near Edison in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Residents and local law enforcement have reported numerous problems with prostitution in the city for decades. In addition, at least two cases of the targeted murder of prostituted women have also been […]
Pearl is a city of roughly 27,000 residents, located just east of Jackson in Rankin County, Mississippi. Several years ago, the Pearl Police Department ramped up efforts to curtail prostitution in the city. In addition to conducting stings targeting prostituted women and pimps/traffickers, the PPD has conducted at least one web-based operation targeting sex buyers. […]
Albert Lea is a city of approximately 18,000 residents, located at the juncture of Interstates 35 and 90 in southeastern Minnesota’s Freeborn County, south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results […]
Clifton Park is a town of approximately 38,000 residents, located in southern Saratoga County near Albany, Schenectady, Colonie, Troy, and Saratoga Springs, New York. In an effort to reduce prostitution activity in the town, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office has conducted at least one reverse sting. In July 2014, SCSO deputies conducted an eight-hour web-based […]
Great Falls is a city of approximately 60,000 residents in West-Central Montana. It’s the largest city and county seat of Cascade County, MT. The local commercial sex market and crimes associated with it—including cases of rape committed against prostituted women—have been well-documented. In 1888, when the city was just four years old, an ordinance was […]
The Colony is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, located in the northern suburbs of Dallas near Denton in Denton County, Texas. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in other areas of the county. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has […]
Belcamp, sometimes referred to as “Riverside,” is a census-designated place of approximately 6,000 residents, located near Aberdeen in Harford County, Maryland. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the city, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex […]
Corte Madera is a town of roughly 10,000 residents, located in Marin County, California near Larkspur. Prostitution and sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking, have been documented throughout Marin County. There have also been local cases of assault and murder of women in prostitution, as well as drug and child endangerment charges. Consumer level demand […]
Mill Valley is a city of approximately 14,000 residents, located just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California, near San Rafael. Cases of prostitution and child sexual exploitation have been reported in the city. For example, in 2003, “a 43-year-old Mill Valley man was arraigned on charges that he repeatedly injected a 14-year-old girl […]
South Tucson is a city of roughly 4,600 residents in Pima County, Arizona. It is surrounded by the larger city of Tucson. South Tucson has been described as a “city within a city”, an independently governed town embedded in metropolitan sprawl just a mile south of downtown Tucson. It collects taxes and elects its own […]
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