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Amarillo is a city of approximately 200,000 residents, located two hours north of Lubbock, and lies within both Potter County and Randall County Texas. Residents and local law enforcement have reported problems with prostitution in the city for decades, specifically along Amarillo Boulevard. Cases of sex trafficking of children and the murder of prostituted women […]
Alton is a city of approximately 25,000 residents in southwestern Illinois’s Madison County, near Edwardsville and St. Louis. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been documented locally since at least the early 1990s. Cases of assaults on individuals exploited in commercial sex and homicides of sex buyers have also been reported. Among their efforts to […]
Altamonte Springs is a city of approximately 42,000 residents, located north of Orlando in Seminole County, Florida. Prostitution has been reported as a problem in the city dating at least to the 1980s, and has generated many complaints to police. Sex trafficking of minors and armed robberies of adults have also been documented, and a […]
Allentown is Pennsylvania’s third most populous city, with about 120,000 residents. It is the county seat of Lehigh County, located along the Lehigh River, in eastern Pennsylvania. It is an older industrial city with a history of substantial prostitution activity. In the 1970s and 1980s, the city was identified by police to be on a […]
Alexandria is a city of approximately 150,000 residents, located just south of Washington in Virginia. The presence of prostitution and sex trafficking in the city has been extensively documented, and local residents have reported suspected commercial sex and trafficking to local law enforcement. A wide range of problems driven by the commercial sex market have […]
Alexandria is a city of approximately 48,000 residents, located midway between Baton Rouge and Shreveport in central Louisiana. To curtail commercial sex sales in the area, the Alexandria Police Department (APD) conducted a handful of successful street-level reverse stings between 2007 and 2009. One such operation, dubbed “John-John Sweep”, resulted in the arrest of 31 […]
Albuquerque is New Mexico’s largest city, with an estimated population of about 563,000 residents. It is located in the high desert of north-central New Mexico, along the Rio-Grande, and serves as the county seat of Bernalillo County. The city and greater county area have well-documented problems with prostitution and sex trafficking, including child sex trafficking […]
Albany is a city of approximately 98,000 residents; it is the seat of Albany County and the capital of New York. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities and in unincorporated areas of the county. This activity and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates result in complaints […]
Alachua County is a county of approximately 270,000 residents, located in north central Florida. Gainesville is the county’s seat and largest city. The city of Newberry, just outside Gainesville, has also done work to address demand. Prostitution and sex trafficking activity have been well-documented in Gainesville and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of Alachua […]
Akron is a city of approximately 190,000 residents, located south of Cleveland in Summit County, Ohio. Situated at the crossroads of Interstate 76 and 77, the city has struggled with chronic prostitution and sex trafficking activity along major roadways for decades. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in throughout both […]
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