Panama City is located in the Florida Panhandle along U.S. Route 98, about midway between Tallahassee and Pensacola, It is the county seat of Bay County and has a population of roughly 36,000 residents. The Panama City Police Department has fielded numerous complaints about prostitution from residents and businesses for decades, and sex trafficking is […]
Palmer has a population of approximately 6,000 residents and is the ninth largest city in Alaska. The community is located 42 miles northeast of Anchorage, and serves as the goverment seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Prostitution and sexual trafficking activity has been documented in Palmer and in other areas of the Mat-Su Valley. Violence against […]
Palmdale is a city of approximately 166,000 residents, located in north central Los Angeles County near Lancaster. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been reported in community. Among the more serious crimes associated with the city’s commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. For example, in October 2014, a Palmdale male sex trafficker was sentenced […]
Palm Springs, located in California, has a population of roughly 45,000. Prostitution is a documented problem in the city, and includes the homicide of at least one prostituted woman, another murder of a prostituted woman by a convicted serial killer, and the presence of large-scale prostitution rings. The serial killer who targeted prostitutes was Andrew Urdiales, who […]
Palm Beach County is a county of approximately 1.5 million residents located on the eastern shore of Florida. Prostitution and sex trafficking are longstanding problems in the area. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide, and serial killers who […]
Palm Beach is a community located in Palm Beach County, FL, north of Fort Lauderdale near West Palm Beach, with a population of roughly 9,000 annually (and about 30,000 seasonally). Prostitution and child sex trafficking are documented problems in the city. To address prostitution problems in the city, police have conducted reverse stings. In 1989 […]
Palm Bay is a city of just over 100,000 residents, located in Brevard County, Florida near Melbourne. Local law enforcement’s responses to prostitution are in part driven by complaints from businesses and residents. Cases of sex trafficking and prostitution-related violence and production child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, often called “child pornography” in state law) have […]
Palatka is a city of roughly 11,000 residents, located in Florida’s Putnam County, southwest of St. Augustine. Law enforcement and local residents have noted problems with street prostitution in the city for decades years; individuals attempting to purchase sex in Palatka have also reported being robbed. Sex trafficking has also been well documented locally. For […]
Pajaro is a census-designated place of roughly 3,500 residents, situated on the south bank of the Pajaro River in Monterey County, California, located south of Santa Cruz near Watsonville. Law enforcement have fielded complaints from residents about prostitution in the city. In July 2009, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation that resulted in […]
Painesville is a community of approximately 21,000 residents, situated along Lake Erie east of Cleveland near Willoughby in Lake County, Ohio. Prostitution is a problem that the Painesville Police Department has focused on as a “quality of life” issue that they do not want to see become more widespread. At least one case of attempted child sex trafficking […]
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