Stafford County is a county of approximately 157,000 residents, located along Virginia’s northern border. Prostitution has been identified by law enforcement as a problem in the county, and residents have frequently complained to police. Human trafficking also occurs in the county, facilitated by its location along the Interstate 95 corridor. Local prostitution and sex trafficking […]
St. Tammany Parish is located in the New Orleans metropolitan area of Louisiana and has a population of approximately 270,000. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and prostitution and trafficking-related child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, often called “child pornography” in state laws) cases have been documented in the Parish. The Sheriff’s Office has conducted reverse stings in an […]
St. Petersburg is a city of over 260,000 residents, located along Florida’s western coast in Pinellas County. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city for over 50 years. In addition, local law enforcement agencies have reported several cases of targeted assaults on – and murders of – individuals engaged in prostitution. […]
Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota, is a city of about 307,000 residents that forms the “Twin Cities” with neighboring Minneapolis. St. Paul and its surrounding areas (including the other cities and unincorporated areas of Ramsey County and Hennepin County) has experienced a wide range of problems associated with its robust local commercial sex […]
St. Mary’s County is a county of approximately 115,000 residents, located about 30 miles south of Washington, DC. Pockets of chronic prostitution and instances of sex trafficking have been reported by community residents and local law enforcement, particularly in the cities of Leonardtown and Lexington Park. Among the strategies pursued to ameliorate these problems are those focused on combating consumer-level […]
St. Louis, Missouri, a city of about 305,000 along the Mississippi River, has had longstanding, widespread prostitution and sex trafficking problems, since the 1800s if not before. In 1870 the city passed an ordinance legalizing prostitution, requiring brothels and women who were exploited within them to register with the city. The experiment was declared a […]
St. George is a city of approximately 95,000 residents in southwest Utah’s Washington County. Prostitution and sex trafficking (including child sex trafficking) are known problems in the city. To reduce local commercial sex activity, the St. George Police Department has conducted several reverse stings both at the street level and using the web. In November […]
St. Francisville is a town in Louisiana with under 2,000 residents, situated north of Baton Rouge. The St. Francisville Police Department has conducted at least one web-based reverse sting that resulted in the arrest of seven men in 2009. Deputies reported that immediately after the decoy ad was posted, their phones “rang off the hook.” […]
Saint Charles is a suburb located west of Chicago, in DuPage and Kane counties, and has a population of approximately 33,000. 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 […]
St. Augustine is a city of approximately 14,000 residents in northeastern Florida’s St. John’s County. Prostitution activity has been reported in the community for at least two decades. It has been linked to more serious crimes, including reports of sex sellers being “beaten and thrown out of vehicles” and targeted for homicide. On at least […]
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