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Desert Hot Springs (DHS) is a city in southern California with a population of about 33,000. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been documented in the city and throughout Riverside County. The DHS Police Department has conducted street-level reverse stings since 2007. These operations occurred about twice per year and the identities of those arrested were […]
Des Moines is the state capital city located in central Iowa. It also serves as the government seat of Polk County, and has a population of about 215,000. Prostitution has been identified as a problem in the city dating back to the 1800s, and in contemporary times, sex trafficking and related crime have been well […]
Des Moines is a city of roughly 33,000 residents in King County, WA. It is located just south of Seattle. Among the problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been reports of targeted sexual assault, targeted homicide of prostituted women, and the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors. Consumer-level demand provides the revenue […]
Denver is a consolidated city and county government in Colorado with a population of approximately about 711,000 residents. It is the 22nd largest city in the United States and is the state capital of Colorado. The history of Denver as nexus for prostitution originates from the now defunct red-light district known as “The Row,” and […]
Delray Beach is a city of 68,000, located along the southeastern coast of Florida in Palm Beach County. Prostitution, occurring both at street-level and within adult-oriented businesses, has posed serious problems in the community for several decades. For example, in February 2018, two Delray Beach men were arrested and faced human-trafficking charges after city police […]
DeKalb County is located in Central Georgia and has a population of approximately 755,000 residents. It contains 10% of the city of Atlanta within its boundaries, as well as the communities of Decatur, Dunwoody, Brookhaven, Lithonia, and Stone Mountain. Numerous cases of prostitution and the sex trafficking (of both adults and minors) have been well-documented […]
Decatur is a city of approximately 70,000 residents, located east of Springfield in Macon County, Illinois. Serious problems related to prostitution, including the trafficking and exploitation of minors for commercial sex, have been reported in the city for over two decades. In 1991, for example, a 16-year-old girl was trafficked out of Decatur by an […]
De Soto is a town of around 6,000 residents, situated along the Kansas river roughly equidistant between Lawrence and Overland Park in Johnson County, Kansas. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Johnson County. This activity and the […]
Daytona Beach is a city of approximately 74,000 residents, located an hour north of Orlando in Volusia County, Florida. Commercial sex activity has posed considerable problems in the community for several decades, and has been linked to cases of suspected sex trafficking, incidents of child endangerment, and targeted sexual assaults and homicides of prostituted persons. The […]
Dayton is a city of approximately 140,000 residents, located 50 miles north of Cincinnati in Montgomery County, Ohio. Numerous crimes associated with the local commercial sex market have been documented in the city for decades, including illicit drug offenses, targeted homicides, assault, and rape of prostituted people, and the sex trafficking of children. Sex buyers have […]
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