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Compton is a city of about 94,000 residents located in Los Angeles County, CA. It is situated close to the Los Angeles metro area near Lynwood and Hawthorne. Prostitution and sex trafficking are pervasive problems in the city, particularly along Long Beach Boulevard. For example, in 2014, the Compton Police Station and the Los Angeles […]
Wood County is a county of approximately 132,000 residents, located south of Toledo in northwest Ohio. It contains the cities of Perrysburg and its county seat Bowling Green. Situated along Interstate 75, the county has struggled with problems associated with prostitution activity in and around local truck stops for decades. To address these issues, the […]
Coon Rapids is a city of approximately 63,000 residents in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. It is the largest city in Anoka County. According to Coon Rapids Police Department officials, there has been concern in recent years that prostitution sting operations by Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park Police Departments has pushed prostitution activity across […]
Minnehaha County is a county of approximately 200,000 residents, located in southeastern South Dakota. The county seat and state’s largest city is Sioux Falls. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have occurred in the county for decades. For example, between 1951 and 1956, there was a federal campaign against organized interstate prostitution – much of which […]
Muscatine is a city of less that 25,000 residents near Davenport, in Eastern Iowa. Prostitution and sex trafficking investigations have occurred in the city, dating back to the 1800s. A news article from 1873 described a local case of a man beating and sexually assaulting a young woman, insisting she engage in prostitution. During an […]
Franklin County is a county in central Ohio that has a population of approximately 1.3 million residents. Its government seat and largest city is Columbus. Prostitution has been a problem in the county for decades, and more recently, numerous cases of sex trafficking have been investigated, and subsequently resulted in convictions. For example, in October […]
Graves County is a rural area in Kentucky with a population of about 37,000. Prostitution in the county has been identified as problematic and has been connected to drug trafficking and sex crimes, such as rape. Police have fielded complaints about prostitution occurring in the county. In 2012, police decided to target consumer-level demand for […]
Worthington is a rural borough of less than 600 residents outside of the Pittsburgh metro area in Western Pennsylvania. Although reports of prostitution activity in the community appear limited, the Worthington Police Department has conducted at least one demand-reduction effort after receiving complaints from residents about suspected solicitation of prostitution. In late 2012, Worthington residents complained […]
Roseville is a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, and has roughly 36,000 residents. The Roseville Police Department has routinely made prostitution arrests, as noted frequently in police crime blotters. Cases of sex trafficking have also been investigated in the city, such as a 2012 case involving a 17-year-old girl, for which […]
Hobart is a city of approximately 30,000 residents, located in the greater Chicago metropolitan area near Gary, Indiana. The Hobart Police Department conducted its first reverse sting in December 2011, after officers received tips and complaints of alleged prostitution activity in a home. After monitoring the home, police apprehended a man as he left, and […]
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