Greenburgh is a town of approximately 95,000 residents, located near White Plains in Westchester County, New York. It includes the village of Elmsford. Law enforcement have reported problems related to prostitution, particularly activities arranged online and occurring in local hotels and motels, for several years. Cases of robbery of sex buyers and the assault and […]
Greenacres is a city of approximately 32,000 residents, located in Palm Beach County in southeast Florida. Prostitution activity has been reported locally for at least two decades, and has brought with it a wide range of collateral crimes and led to community complaints. For example, in 2016 a man had his 2-year-old son with him when […]
Granite City is a city of 29,000 residents located in Madison County, Illinois and situated in the greater St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems in the city for decades. In response to complaints by residents, Granite City police have attempted to combat consumer-level demand by conducting street-level and […]
Grand Rapids, Michigan has a population of approximately 200,000 and serves as the government seat of Kent County. The city and surrounding areas have had well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking, spanning decades and resulting in complaints to law enforcement. Problems related to the local commercial sex market include cases of drugs involved in […]
Goldsboro is a city of about 33,000 residents located in eastern-central North Carolina. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the area, 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 trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by […]
Glendale is a city of about 250,000 residents within Maricopa County, Arizona, located northwest of Phoenix. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented problems in Glendale, and throughout the county, for decades. Among the tactics used to address the have been those intended to combat the consumer-level demand that drives all sex trafficking. For […]
Glendale is a city of 192,000 in the greater Los Angeles area, located in Los Angeles County, CA. Local prostitution is associated with a wide range of crimes and other problems, including child sex trafficking and the targeting of prostituted women for serial rape and homicide. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all […]
Genesee County is located in eastern Michigan and has a population of approximately 400,000. The county seat and population center is the city of Flint. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-established problems in the county and surrounding areas. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies […]
Gastonia is a city of approximately 77,000 residents, located in the western suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina. The city has experienced numerous problems associated with prostitution, including the assault and robbery of prostituted women and of sex buyers. To combat rampant street prostitution in certain city neighborhoods, the Gastonia Police Department conducted a series of […]
Gardena is a Los Angeles suburb of about 60,000 residents, near Manhattan Beach and Compton, in Los Angeles County, CA. The city has experienced longstanding problems of prostitution and sex trafficking, and the police department fields complaints from residents and businesses regularly. For example, in 1990, residents along Rosecrans Corridor petitioned to annex the corridor […]
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