Chula Vista is a city of about 277,000 located in the San Diego area of southern California. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been recognized as serious problems in the city for many years, generating numerous complaints to police. The city is also included among those in San Diego county that experienced activity of a serial […]
Chicago is the major metropolitan center of Cook County, Illinois, with a population of over 2.7 million residents. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and related violence have well-documented and persistent problems in the city and throughout Cook County for decades. For example, between 1951 and 1956, there was a federal campaign against organized interstate prostitution – much […]
Chesterfield County is a county of approximately 371,000 residents, located in the southern suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. Its county seat is the city of Chesterfield. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been well documented problems in the county for decades. In this county, sex buyers have been the main targets of prostitution stings. Operations such as […]
Chester is a city of approximately 33,000 residents, situated in southeast Pennsylvania roughly equidistant between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Prostitution has posed considerable problems in the community for decades. For example, at least two cases of child sex trafficking has been documented in Chester. In one instance, in May 2013, two city residents were charged […]
Chesapeake is a city of about 251,000 residents located south of Norfolk in the Hampton Roads area of southeast Virginia. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city, and related violent crimes against those in prostitution, have been well-documented problems for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and […]
Chelsea is a densely populated city of about 40,000 residents, located across the Mystic River from Boston in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, near Everett and Revere. Commercial sex activity, conducted both at street level and within local businesses, has been reported in the community for at least two decades, and has generated complaints from city residents. Cases of sex trafficking, […]
Chattanooga is a city of approximately 181,000 residents, located in Hamilton County in southeastern Tennessee. Prostitution has been well-documented as a problem in the city for decades. There have also been many verified cases of other serious crimes driven by the commercial sex market, such as sex trafficking and the targeted assault and murder of […]
Charlottesville is a city of over 46,000 residents, located in northern Virginia’s Albemarle County. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the city for more than 100 years, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial […]
Charlotte is a city in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is the largest city in the state, with a population of approximately 880,000 residents. The city also has the highest number of reported sex trafficking cases in North Carolina each year, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Street prostitution has been a persistent and […]
Charleston is a coastal city with a population of 152,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented for over 140 years, and includes a relatively recent case of a prostituted woman being murdered in 2013. In November, 2021, three people were arrested after authorities discovered a prostitution and pornography-producing operation at a […]
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