Idlewild is a small community of less than 1,000 residents, situated in the Manistee National Forest approximately 50 miles north of Grand Rapids in central Michigan. The town has a history of once being a prosperous resort and recreation area from the 1910s through 1960s. It was one of the main vacation destinations in the […]
Independence is a city with a population of approximately 122,000, located in western Missouri’s Jackson County, near Kansas City. Internet-based prostitution has been identified as a substantial problem in the city. In addition, cases of child sex trafficking has been documented in the area; for example, in mid-2012, press outlets reported that law enforcement agencies […]
Idaho Falls is a city of approximately 62,000 residents in southeastern Idaho, located in Bonneville County. It’s located along an interstate highway, which police say contributes to prostitution and sex trafficking occurring in local hotels. Prostitution often generates additional problems and crimes in the community. For example, a man was sentenced to prison for mugging […]
Huntsville is a city in northern central Alabama. It is the state’s fourth-largest city, with a population of approximately 217,000. Many problems related to prostitution have been reported in the city, including multiple sexual assaults and murders of prostituted women, the murder of an alleged pimp in 2013, and the murder of a sex buyer […]
Huntington Station is a hamlet of approximately 35,000 residents located within the town of Huntington on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. The Huntington Station Police Department has successfully implemented a number of anti-prostitution measures, primarily targeting those who force prostitution on others. In June 2010, one such operation resulted in the arrest […]
Huntington Beach is a seaside suburb of Los Angeles, with a population of about 200,000. Indoor prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified as a key concerns in the city for decades. In the late 1980s, for example, three adult men were arrested and charged with attempting to recruit minor girls to be sexually exploited […]
Huntington is a city located along the Ohio River in West Virginia. It is the second largest city in the state, with approximately 46,000 residents. Prostitution has been reported in the community for decades, and has generated complaints to law enforcement and city officials. In recent years, the opiod crisis has been cited as a […]
Huntington is a town of approximately 200,000 residents, located on the north shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. The town includes the hamlet of Huntington Station. Prostitution has been a persistent problem in the town for decades. For instance, several massage parlors in Huntington have been investigated for illicit sexual activity over […]
Howard’s Grove is a small city of about 3,000 residents located south of Green Bay, Wisconsin near Sheboygan. To our knowledge, Howard’s Grove has not conducted typical reverse stings, using a police decoy or an online decoy advertisement to entice sex buyers and gather evidence necessary for arrest. However, there has been one instance of […]
Howard County contains approximately 335,000 residents, and is situated in central Maryland between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The Howard County Police Department (HCPD) frequently conducts reverse stings at specific locations within the county, and for descriptions of HCPD-led stings in Columbia, Elkridge, Jessup, Laurel, and North Laurel, see individual site pages. Countywide anti-demand efforts began […]
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