Marion County is located in central Indiana and has a population of approximately 980,000. The county seat is Indianapolis, the state’s capital and largest city. County and Indianapolis residents, businesses, police, and others have recognized the area’s substantial prostitution problem for decades. They acknowledge the link between commercial sex and other crimes, including the sex […]
Elk Grove is a city of approximately 180,000 residents in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Sacramento county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in […]
La Follette is a city of approximately 7,000 residents, located in Campbell County in the North-Central portion of Tennessee, north of Knoxville and near the Interstate 75 corridor. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city, and generates numerous complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. For example, in August 2018, the La […]
Lane County is located in Western Oregon, along the Interstate 5 corridor. Roughly half of its population of about 383,000 resides in the county seat of Eugene, the second largest city in Oregon. Commercial sex is well documented in the central city, and in the surrounding towns and unincorporated areas. Among the more serious problems […]
Wilkes Barre is a city of about 45,000 residents in central Pennsylvania that was a stop on a domestic sex trafficking circuit in the 1970s and 1980s. The “pimp circuit,” as it was then called, ran along highway corridors in central Pennsylvania (e.g., Allentown, Reading, Harrisburg, Scranton) and upstate New York (Schenectady, Albany, Buffalo). Like […]
Luzerne County is located in central Pennsylvania, and the city of Wilkes Barre is the county seat and population center. Other relatively populous communities within the county include Hazleton, Kingston, Nanticoke, and Pittston. The region has well-documented history of sex trafficking and prostitution activity. The county contained towns that were stops on a domestic sex […]
Bexar County is located in southern Texas and has a population of approximately 2 million. The county seat and most populous city, San Antonio, TX, has a population of over 1.5 million residents within city limits. Due to the county’s location, prostitution and sex trafficking have been identified by community leaders and law enforcement agencies […]
Chillicothe is a city of approximately 22,000 residents in southern Ohio, located roughly 50 miles south of Columbus. Police have long known of the prostitution problem within the city and surrounding areas. A wide range of additional crimes associated with the local sex trade have also been documented, including child sex trafficking and prostitution-related homicide. Police […]
Folsom is a city of approximately 81,000 residents near Sacramento, California. The problems associated with prostitution in the city of Folsom and throughout Sacramento County include a case of a sex buyer being given a fatal dose of illicit drugs by a prostituted woman. An array of other negative impacts of commercial sex have led […]
Bellevue is a suburb of about 150,000 residents in King County, WA. It is located across Lake Washington from Seattle. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city and have generated, in addition to complaints to police from the community, an array of serious felonies such as robbery, weapons offenses, and serial rapists […]
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