East Hazel Crest is a village in Illinois with a population of roughly 1,500 residents, located 25 miles south of Chicago in Cook County. In 2010, as a result of complaints from local business owners, a reverse sting was conducted and three men were arrested. The arrested sex buyers also faced a mandatory vehicle tow, […]
East Bridgewater is a town of about 14,500 located about 26 miles south of Boston. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the community have been well documented problems for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law enforcement agencies as a strategy for […]
East Baton Rouge Parish is part of the Baton Rough Metropolitan area and contains about 453,000 residents. Techniques such as reverse stings and sex buyer identity disclosure have been used to combat prostitution and sex trafficking. In 2006, a two-day reverse sting resulted in 15 sex buyer arrests. The names and dates of birth of […]
Durham is a city of about 276,000 residents located 30 miles northeast of North Carolina’s capital, Raleigh. It is the county seat of Durham County. Cases of prostitution, sex trafficking, and child sex trafficking are prevalant within Durham. Ancillary crimes as well as serious crimes against prostituted women, including assault and murder, have also been […]
DuPage County is the second-most populous county in Illinois, with approximately 926,000 residents. It is located 40 miles west of Chicago. Among the serious problems associated with prostitution and sex trafficking in the county have been murders and serial homicides specifically targeting prostituted women and girls. Although the majority of the county’s law enforcement efforts […]
Duluth is a city of approximately 86,000 residents located in Beltrami County, in northeastern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. Documented cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have occurred in the city, with Native American women and girls reported to be particularly vulnerable. To address these and other problems inevitably generated by prostitution, law […]
Duluth is a city with a population of approximately 31,000 located about 25 miles north of Atlanta. Prostitution activity has been known to occur in Duluth; to combat this, reverse stings have been conducted since at least 2011. In one operation, a teacher was arrested and fined $1,300 after being caught trying to buy sex […]
Dubuque is a city of about 59,000 located along the Mississippi River on the northeast border of Iowa. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented and persistent problems in the city dating back at least to the 1970s. Among the efforts to combat them have been tactics intended to deter consumer level demand for commercial […]
Downey is a city of about 112,000 residents located in southeast Los Angeles County, CA. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been known to engage in large-scale joint reverse sting operations in the city of Downey. The first known reference to reverse stings in the city was in 1984. Interviews conducted in 2011 with […]
Downers Grove is a village of almost 50,000 residents in DuPage County, located about 20 miles west of Chicago. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law […]
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