Winona is a city of approximately 26,000 residents, located in Winona County in southeast Minnesota. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Consumer level […]
Wilson is a city of approximately 48,000 residents, located east of Raleigh in Wilson County, North Carolina. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented in the city. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for prevention […]
Wilmington is a city of approximately 120,000 residents, located on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. It serves as the county seat of New Hanover County. As one of the state’s largest commercial and population centers, the city has dealt with significant problems related to prostitution for decades and more recently, sex trafficking, including commercial […]
Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware, with a population of roughly 73,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented to occur in the city for decades. A recent example includes operations conducted cases from February, 2022: two illicit massage establishments in Wilmington were shut down during an investigation by the new DOJ Human […]
Harbor City is a community of approximately 36,000 residents, located within the city of Los Angeles, near Lomita and Wilmington, in Los Angeles County, CA. In an effort to reduce prostitution activity, local law enforcement has conducted street-level reverse stings in the community since at least 1993, if not earlier. The first known reverse sting […]
Willowbrook is a village of approximately 9,100 residents, located in DuPage County in northeast Illinois. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the city for decades, and throughout DuPage County, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. For example, in May, 2016, four women were […]
Willimantic is a census-designated place of approximately 19,000 residents, located in Windham County in southwest Connecticut. Prostitution is a persistent problem in the area, generating complaints to police by both residents and business owners, and has been repeatedly linked to the city’s drug market. Serious problems associated with local prostitution activity include a serial rapist […]
Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, with a population of approximately 390,000 residents. Situated in Sedgwick County at the junction of Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 54, the city has struggled since at least the late 1970s with numerous problems associated with commercial sex occurring along major roadways. The south and north corridors of […]
Whittier is a city of approximately 85,000 residents, located 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, CA. Instances of prostitution have been documented for decades. The first case in which a sex buyer was arrested in addition to a prostituted woman in Whittier was in 1976. Their identities and ages were released […]
White Plains is a city of approximately 60,000 residents, located north of New York City, and it is the county seat of Westchester County, New York. Prostitution and teen sex trafficking are known to have occurred in the city. To combat consumer-level demand for commercial sex, the City of White Plains Department of Public Safety’s […]
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