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Cookeville is a city of about 35,000 residents in northern Tennessee’s Putnam County. Prostitution and child sex trafficking have been identified as substantial local problem and generated numerous complaints from residents to law enforcement. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and has therefore been targeted by local law […]
Cook County, Illinois is the population center of the state (pop. 5.17 million) and contains the city of Chicago (pop. 2.7 million), as well as numerous smaller – but still substantial – cities and small towns and unincorporated areas. The county has experienced a wide range of problems associated with commercial sex, including child sex […]
Conroe is a city of over 94,000 residents located north of Houston, in Montgomery County, Texas. Prostitution is known to be a problem in the city and generates complaints to police from residents. Among the more serious crimes that have been associated with the local commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. Consumer level demand […]
Concord is a suburb of San Francisco, California with around 124,000 residents. The Concord Police Department has responded to citizen concerns and complaints about prostitution in local hotels and on street corners by raiding the businesses suspected of promoting prostitution and staging prostitution stings – including reverse stings. The arrested prostituted women and sex buyers […]
Concord is a city of around 108,000 residents, located northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, in Cabarrus County. Cases of prostitution in the community have been reported, with numerous local resident complaints about solicitation occurring in several city neighborhoods. In at least once incident, a man was arrested and charged with raping three women he identified […]
Columbus is a central Ohio city and the state capital, and has a population of approximately 907,000 residents. It is the government seat of Franklin County, Ohio. The city was an “early adopter” among cities in the U.S. that have focused on combating demand for commercial sex. Prostitution has been a problem in the city […]
Columbus is a city of approximately 200,000 residents, situated along the Alabama border in Muscogee County, Georgia. Fort Benning, a major military base with roughly 120,000 residents, lies on the city’s outskirts. Prostitution and sex trafficking cases in Columbus date back to the 1940s, if not earlier, and have generated numerous complaints to police by […]
Columbia County is located on the northeastern border of Georgia and has a population of approximately 124,000. The county has had well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking – and their related crimes and health impacts – for decades. For example, in 2016, three women were arrested and faced charges in a prostitution case at […]
Colorado Springs is a city of approximately 484,000 residents, located south of Denver along Interstate 25 in El Paso County, CO. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented issues in the city. For example, between January 2014 and August 2014, researchers identified and recovered 25 underage victims of commercial sexual exploitation and 34 adult victims in […]
Columbia is the state capital and largest city in South Carolina, with approximately 138,000 residents. It is the county seat of Richland County. As such, anti-prostitution efforts in the city have often taken the form of joint initiatives and/or operational coordination between the Columbia Police Department and Richland County Sheriff’s Office. Persistent street prostitution and […]
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