Geographic Terms and Concepts - Census Tract. Census Tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity that are updated by local participants prior to each decennial census as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program.
1 Average arrest, court and incarceration costs amount to nearly $2,000 per arrest (3). 2  Cities spend an average of 7.5 million dollars on prostitution control every year, ranging from 1 million dollars to 23 million dollars (3). 3  Prostitution in the US is a 14.5 billion dollar a year business (2). The average age of someone entering into prostitution is 14 years (2). 2  At least 75% of prostitutes were sexually and physically abused children (2). 3  The majority of prostitutes become addicted to alcohol or drugs (2).
Law enforcement agencies in America's biggest cities spend an average of about $2,000 for each arrest of a prostitute, which amounts to more than $120 million a year in enforcement costs nationwide, according to a new study that describes itself as the country's first cost-benefit analysis of prostitution laws.hat means that the average big-city police department spent 213 man-hours a day enforcing prostitution laws. Meanwhile, the study points out, reports of violent crime were up 32% in 1985 from a decade before. However, arrests for violent crimes rose only 3.7%, and arrests for homicide and robbery dropped 15%.