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Longview is a city of approximately 82,000 residents, located in Gregg County in eastern Texas. Situated at the intersection of Interstate 20, Route 80, and Route 259, Longview has been a site of widespread prostitution for decades, and child sex trafficking is also well-documented. To address such issues driven by the consumer-level demand that funds all […]
Long Beach is the second largest city in the metro Los Angeles Area, with approximately 460,000 residents, and is located within Los Angeles County, CA. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been chronic and ubiquitous problems in the city for decades, with activities frequently concentrated along the Pacific Coast Highway and other major thoroughfares. Among the […]
Lodi is a city of approximately 67,000 residents, located south of Sacramento in California’s Central Valley, near Stockton. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity, occurring both at street level and within adult-oriented businesses, has been reported in the community for decades. Cases of targeted kidnappings, assaults and homicides of prostituted women, and robberies of adult-oriented businesses […]
Lincoln City is a small city in Northwestern Oregon of approximately 9,700 residents, located in Lincoln County, OR. Problems associated with prostitution have been well-documented for decades. For example, in 2008, Lincoln City police arrested a woman at a motel on Highway 101 on charges of prostitution, and in a press release stated that prostitution […]
Lincoln is the capital and second-largest city in Nebraska, with about 293,000 residents. Prostitution has been a persistent and visible problem in the area, and the sex trafficking of minors in Lincoln has been well documented for decades. Robberies of sex buyers have also been documented. Community members have complained to local law enforcement about […]
Lima is a city of approximately 36,000 residents. Located in western Ohio, it is the county seat of Allen County. Local residents and businesses have reported high levels of prostitution activity, often concentrated in the Kibby Corners area, for over a decade. There have also been multiple, well-documented cases of local and regional sex trafficking. […]
Lihue is a census-designated place with approximately 9,000 residents located in Kauai County, HI. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems on the island, including within Lihue. Among the more serious issues associated with the area’s commercial sex market have been a homicide committed by a woman in prostitution against her cousin and the sexual […]
Lexington is a city of approximately 322,000 residents, located in Fayette County in northeast Kentucky. It is the state’s second-largest city. Street prostitution and indoor prostitution rings (including multi-state sex trafficking rings) have presented persistent and severe problems in the area for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex […]
Lewiston is a city of about 36,000 residents, located in southern Maine between Portland and Augusta along Interstate 95, in Androscoggin County. Community members have complained about burgeoning prostitution activity for decades, with cases of commercial sex and sex trafficking dating back to at least 1980. Among the problems associated with the local commercial sex market was […]
Lewis County in Southwestern Washington of approximately 84,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking are thoroughly documented problems within the county. This activity and its ancillary crimes have generated complaints to local law enforcement from residents and businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the county’s commercial sex market are child sex trafficking and the […]
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