Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, with a population of nearly four million residents in the city proper. It is the largest city and the government seat of Los Angeles County. Prostitution and sex trafficking are chronic and widespread problems in the area, with activities centered for decades within the […]
Loris is a small city of approximately 3,000 residents located in Horry County, South Carolina. In an effort to curtail demand for prostitution, the Loris Police Department has conducted at least one street-level reverse sting. In August 2007, one reverse sting resulted in the arrest of four sex bueyrs. Driven by community complaints, Loris and […]
Lorain is a city of approximately 65,000 residents, located in Lorain County about thirty miles west of Cleveland in northeast Ohio. Prostitution and related crimes, including the solicitation of minors for commercial sex acts and the sex trafficking of adults and minors, have been reported in the city for decades. Homicide of prostituted women has […]
Longview is a city of approximately 82,000 residents, located in Gregg County in eastern Texas. Situated at the intersection of Interstate 20, Route 80, and Route 259, Longview has been a site of widespread prostitution for decades, and child sex trafficking is also well-documented. To address such issues driven by the consumer-level demand that funds all […]
Long Beach is the second largest city in the metro Los Angeles Area, with approximately 460,000 residents, and is located within Los Angeles County, CA. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been chronic and ubiquitous problems in the city for decades, with activities frequently concentrated along the Pacific Coast Highway and other major thoroughfares. Among the […]
Lodi is a city of approximately 67,000 residents, located south of Sacramento in California’s Central Valley, near Stockton. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity, occurring both at street level and within adult-oriented businesses, has been reported in the community for decades. Cases of targeted kidnappings, assaults and homicides of prostituted women, and robberies of adult-oriented businesses […]
Little Rock is the capital and largest city in Arkansas, with approximately 202,000 residents. Prostitution has been a persistent and visible problem in the city for decades, and has generated a wide range of crimes associated with commercial sex activity, including child and adult sex trafficking, drug trafficking, weapons offenses, homicide (including the targeting of […]
Lincoln City is a small city in Northwestern Oregon of approximately 9,700 residents, located in Lincoln County, OR. Problems associated with prostitution have been well-documented for decades. For example, in 2008, Lincoln City police arrested a woman at a motel on Highway 101 on charges of prostitution, and in a press release stated that prostitution […]
Lincoln is the capital and second-largest city in Nebraska, with about 293,000 residents. Prostitution has been a persistent and visible problem in the area, and the sex trafficking of minors in Lincoln has been well documented for decades. Robberies of sex buyers have also been documented. Community members have complained to local law enforcement about […]
Lima is a city of approximately 36,000 residents. Located in western Ohio, it is the county seat of Allen County. Local residents and businesses have reported high levels of prostitution activity, often concentrated in the Kibby Corners area, for over a decade. There have also been multiple, well-documented cases of local and regional sex trafficking. […]
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