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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

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75 6958

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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.