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Coventry is a town of just over 35,000 residents, located in Kent County, Rhode Island near Warwick and West Greenwich. Although reports of prostitution and sex trafficking activity in the community appear limited, local law enforcement have taken a proactive approach to curtail underlying demand for commercial sex. For example, in December 2015, the Coventry […]
Greensburg is a city of roughly 11,000 residents, located in south-central Indiana’s Decatur County. Prostitution activity has been well-documented in the city and surrounding communities, and in unincorporated areas of the county, and has generated community complaints to police as well as related crimes. For example, in September, 2012, Greensburg Police Department (GPD) officers shut […]
Mount Vernon is a city of approximately 17,000 residents and is the county seat of Knox County, Ohio, located northeast of Columbus. On at least one occasion, local law enforcement have launched an investigation to identify and arrest individuals attempting to purchase sex. In early June 2015, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest […]
Dorchester County is a county of about 163,000 residents, located northwest of Charleston in central South Carolina. It includes the communities of St. George, North Charleston, Summerville, and Ladson, among others. Prostitution has posed considerable problems in the county, and has been linked to many other crimes including sex trafficking, kidnapping, sexual assault, and homicide. […]
Breezy Point is a city of less than 3,000 residents, located in central Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, north of Brainerd and Baxter. Although reports of prostitution in the city remain limited, law enforcement officials have taken a proactive approach to reducing demand for prostitution and have conducted at least one reverse sting in the community. […]
Hastings is a city of roughly 22,000 residents, situated southeast of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Dakota and Washington counties, Minnesota. In early September 2015, local law enforcement launched a demand-driven investigation aimed at identifying and arresting individuals attempting to purchase access to sexually abuse minors. Officers with the Hastings, Minneapolis, and St. Paul Police […]
Brentwood is a city of approximately 45,000 residents, located in the suburbs of Nashville in Williamson County, Tennessee, near Franklin. Cases of sex trafficking and prostitution have been reported in the community for years. To curtail local prostitution and sex trafficking, and the additional crimes they generate, the Brentwood Police Department has adopted a strategy that […]
Waterville is a city of approximately 17,000 residents, located in Kennebec County, Maine, north of Augusta. Prostitution activity has been well documented in the community for decades, and has generated complaints to police. The commercial sexual exploitation of minors has also been documented locally. In January, 2021, court documents were filed in pursuit of an […]
Augusta is a city of approximately 19,000 residents, located in Kennebec County, Maine, south of Waterville. Prostitution has been reported in the community for decades and has generated complaints to police, and local sex trafficking has also been documented. In their efforts to reduce prostitution activity and the crimes it generates – including human trafficking – […]
Grayslake is a village of roughly 20,000 residents in Lake County, Illinois, west of Waukegan. In addition to overseeing county-level anti-prostitution investigations, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office has staged at least one operation in Grayslake. In early September 2015, LCSO officers announced the completion of a web-based reverse sting in the village. The operation was […]
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