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Orange is a village of approximately 3,000 residents, located just outside of Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the area. Due to the significant amount of prostitution-related activity occurring within and around the village, officials have implemented various tactics in effort to decrease the demand for commercial sex […]
Northwood is a city of approximately 5,000 residents, located just outside of Toledo in Wood County, Ohio. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city and surrounding areas. To combat demand for commercial sex, at least three reverse stings have occurred in the city. For example, in February and March 2013, officers from […]
Union City is a city of approximately 70,000 residents, located on the eastern coast of the San Francisco Bay near Hayward and Fremont in Alameda County, California. Like its neighbors, the city has reported problems with prostitution in certain neighborhoods and within “adult-oriented businesses.” In April 2013, the Union City Police Department and Alameda County […]
Woburn is a small city of approximately 41,000 residents, located just north of Boston in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In the time of the early 2010s, residents and local law enforcement agencies reported a spike in internet-based prostitution in the area transacted in local hotels and residences. Sex trafficking is known to occur in the city […]
Portage Township is a community of approximately 1,000 residents, located in Ottawa County in northwest Ohio. There has been at least one reverse sting conducted in the township. In March 2013, the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, and the FBI’s […]
Fontana is a city of approximately 211,000 residents located in San Bernardino County, California. Like law enforcement agencies in neighboring Ontario and San Bernardino, the Fontana Police Department has identified areas of the city where street prostitution is visible and chronic. To address the issue, the FPD has conducted periodic street-level reverse stings since at […]
Wake Forest is a town of approximately 30,000 residents, located just north of Raleigh in North Carolina. Although prostitution activity is reported to be fairly relatively in the town, officers from the Wake Forest Police Department (WFPD) contend that prostitution is often associated with serious crimes such as rape and assault. The WFPD has proactively […]
Ontario is a city of approximately 178,000 residents, located in southwest San Bernardino County near Fontana and Pomona, California. The Ontario Police Department has conducted reverse stings in the area, including ones at a major motel chain on North Vineyard Avenue and a truck stop near Interstates 10 and 15, a crossroads for overnight truckers. […]
Linthicum, also known as Linthicum Heights, is an unincorporated community of approximately 10,000 residents, located near Baltimore Washington International Airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is part of a cluster of communities along the Route 295 corridor with substantial prostitution activity, and a correspondingly high level of law enforcement activity meant to deter and respond to prostitution and […]
Kokomo is a city of about 60,000 residents located north of Indianapolis, Indiana. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented problems afflicting Kokomo for decades. For example, in May 2022, police arrested two Kokomo residents who were accused of setting up a meeting with a man through a prostitution website and then beating and robbing […]
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