prostitution in salt lake city
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Arrests for prostitution-related offenses in Salt Lake City plummeted in 2012 after Salt Lake City police disbanded its vice squad. Map shows where arrests were made, comparing 2011 and 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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Source: Tribune analysis of Salt Lake City Police Department data
*Each dot represents a record of an arrest
Computer-assisted reporting by Tony Semerad, graphic by Todd Adams | The Salt Lake Tribune
2011 arrests forcommercial sex*
2012 arrests forcommercial sex*
Arrests for commercial sexby type of violation, 2008 2011 2012
Totalviolations
Prostitution Soliciting(by male)
Other violations •Because they are sofew in number, othercategories are only listed here: keeping a house of ill fame, loitering for prostitution, procuring for prostitution and other.
Soliciting(by female)
379
223
135
186
75 6958
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393
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Prostitution in Salt Lake CityProstitution arrests plummeted in 2012 by 92 percent after Salt Lake City police disbanded its vice squad. Police said they have created a new squad to deal with vice-related crimes, focusing on addressing the root causes of commercial sex offenses and on clients.