Madison County is a county of approximately 260,000 residents in southwestern Illinois, right across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Its county seat is Edwardsville, and the largest city is Granite City. The city of Alton in Madison County has been known to use demand-reduction tactics frequently to fight prostitution. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity […]
Wyomissing is a borough in Berks County, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, that has a population of about 11,000. Prostitution has been a persistent and visible problems in the area, generating numerous complaints to police for years. For example, in October, 2012, Berks County detectives and Wyomissing police raided a local day spa and arrested a […]
Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina, with a population of approximately 74,000. It is is located in the north-central portion of South Carolina, and is part of the greater Charlotte, NC metro area. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in communities and unincorporated areas of the county, including […]
Pottawattamie County has about 93,000 residents and is located on Iowa’s western border, near Omaha, Nebraska. Its county seat is Council Bluffs. Complaints from residents about prostitution date back to the 1870s. More recently, there have been multiple documented cases of sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) occurring within the county, as well as […]
Cordova is a small city of under 2,000 residents in northern Alabama, located in Walker County roughly 30 miles northwest of Birmingham. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and other areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement […]
Chilton County is a county of about 44,000 residents in central Alabama, located between Birmingham and Montgomery. The county seat is Clanton. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the county, as well as drug use associated with the local commercial sex market. At least one reverse sting with identity disclosure has been conducted […]
Raleigh County, West Virginia has a population of about 75,000. Its county seat is the city of Beckley. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the county and its 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 […]
Plains Township is a community in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with a population of approximately 9,800 at the 2020 census. The region has well-documented history of sex trafficking and prostitution activity. The county contained towns that were stops on a domestic sex trafficking circuit in the 1970s and 1980s. The “pimp circuit,” as it was then […]
Tullahoma is a city of about 20,000 residents in Coffee and Franklin counties in southern Middle Tennessee, roughly 75 miles northwest of Chattanooga. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the city and surrounding areas, including a case in which a mother sex trafficked her teen daughter in exchange for drugs. Local men have […]
Vernal is the government seat and largest city in Uintah County, Utah. It is about 175 miles east of Salt Lake City and 20 miles west of the Colorado border, and has population of roughly 10,500 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding areas for decades. This activity […]
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