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Harris County is a county of over 4.68 million residents, located in southwest Texas. Houston, TX, is the county’s seat and largest city with approximately 2.3 million residents. Additional communities within the county are Spring, Humble, and Cloverleaf. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well documented and persistent problems in Harris County and its core city […]
Hanford is a city in central California with a population of about 59,000. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Kings County. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more […]
Hampton is a mid-sized city of about 138,000 residents, situated on a peninsula near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay in the southeastern part of Virginia. Among the distinguishing features of the area including Newports News and Norfolk are the seaports, shipyards, and military presence (Army, Air Force, and Navy). Consumer level demand provides the revenue […]
Hampden County is located in central Massachusetts and has a population of about 467,000. Its county seat and largest city is Springfield. Multiple cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the community, and have included the trafficking of children, the production of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM, often referred to in criminal […]
Hagerstown is a city of approximately 40,000 residents, located in Washington County, Maryland, about 20 miles north of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity are well documented in this city and surrounding areas. For example, in June 2018 a man was sentenced to spend over a decade behind bars for sex trafficking of a […]
Gwinnett County is an area in northern Georgia with a population of roughly 965,000 residents. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems throughout the county. For example, in April 2014 a Gwinnett County woman was charged with running a brothel from her apartment and forcing women to work as “sex slaves.” She used online ads […]
Gulfport is a city of approximately 72,000 residents, situated along Mississippi’s southeast coast near Biloxi in Harrison County. Prostitution has been identified as a problem in the city for several decades; businesses and residents lodge complaints about prostitution to police, and federal authorities have investigated cases of illegal immigrants being harbored in the city for […]
Greenwich is a town of under 64,000 residents located in southwestern Connecticut and is a suburb of New York City. The Greenwich Police Department works with Stamford police and other nearby agencies to conduct prostitution operations, including reverse stings. In 2011, undercover officers conducted a web-based reverse sting in which they posted decoy online ads […]
Greenville County is the most populous county in the state of South Carolina, with a population of approximately 534,000 residents. Its government seat is Greenville, SC. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in Greenville County, in the city of Greenville, in surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and […]
Greenville is a city in northwestern South Carolina, with a population of approximately 72,000 residents. It is the county seat of Greenville County, SC. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been known to occur in the city. For example, in 2012 an Upstate man was arrested for child sex trafficking in Greenville. The sex trafficker’s arrest […]
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