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Coffee County is located in south-central Tennessee and has about 59,000 residents. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. Among the more serious crimes associated with the local commercial sex market is sex trafficking. Consumer level demand […]
Cloquet is a city of roughly 13,000 residents, located in eastern Minnesota’s Carlton County near Duluth. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented problems in the city and surrounding areas. For example, in 2003 two local residents were charged with recruiting a 17-year-old girl in Cloquet and transporting her to Illinois, where she was forced to […]
Cleveland is a city of approximately 390,000 residents, located in northeastern Ohio’s Cuyahoga County. The city has experienced a wide range of negative events associated with the local commercial sex market, including assaults of both prostituted persons and sex buyers, sex trafficking of adults and children, trafficking-related child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), and related homicides […]
Clewiston is a town of about 7,300 residents in south-central Florida, in Hendry County, near Lake Okeechobee. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been well-documented in the town, surrounding communities, and unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and […]
Clearwater is a city of approximately 117,000 residents, located near Largo and St. Petersburg in Pinellas County, Florida. Persistent complaints about prostitution from businesses, residents, and neighborhood organizations have occurred in the city and surrounding areas for decades. When asked about prostitution activity in the area in February 2014, Clearwater Police Chief Anthony Holloway reported […]
Clay County is a county of approximately 256,000 residents in Northwestern Missouri and is part of the Kansas City, MO metropolitan area and contains several of the city’s suburbs. It is the fifth most-populous county in Missouri and its county seat is Liberty, MO. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the county for decades, generating […]
Cincinnati is a city of approximately 312,000 residents, located in Hamilton County in southwestern Ohio. A wide range of problems stemming from the local commercial sex market have been documented, including child sex trafficking, and the kidnapping, rape, assault, and homicide of prostituted women. This activity and its ancillary crimes have resulted in complaints from […]
Chicago Heights is a city of roughly 30,000 residents in northeastern Illinois, located in Cook County just south of Chicago. Many large scale stings have occurred since 1996 as a result of feelings on the part of police and residents that prostitution and sex trafficking “cheapens a community.” Also in 1996, a city ordinance was passed […]
Chula Vista is a city of about 277,000 located in the San Diego area of southern California. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been recognized as serious problems in the city for many years, generating numerous complaints to police. The city is also included among those in San Diego county that experienced activity of a serial […]
Chicago is the major metropolitan center of Cook County, Illinois, with a population of over 2.7 million residents. Prostitution, sex trafficking, and related violence have well-documented and persistent problems in the city and throughout Cook County for decades. For example, between 1951 and 1956, there was a federal campaign against organized interstate prostitution – much […]
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