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DEC -20-1930 1f:24 FROM SWEENEY BORER TO LITTLE - CANADA F.O5.'12 However, the Minneapolis study found a much stronger relationship between sexually oriented businesses and crime rates. A crime index was constructed including robbery, burglary, rape and assault. The rate of crime in areas near sexually oriented businesses was then compared to crime rates in other areas. The study drew the following conclusions: 1. The effects of sexually oriented businesses on the crime rate index is positive and significant regardless of which control variable is used. 2. Sexually oriented businesses continue to be associated with higher crime rates, even when the control variables' impacts are considered simultaneously. According to the statistical analysis conducted in the Minneapolis study, the addition of one sexually oriented business to a census tract area will cause an increase in the overall crime rate index in that area by 9.15 crimes per thousand people per year even if all other social factors remain unchanged. St. Paul In 1978, the St. Paul Division of Planning and the Minnesota Crime Control Planning board conducted a study of the relationship between sex - oriented and alcohol- oriented adult entertainment businesses and neighborhood blight. This study looked at crime rates per thousand and median housing values over time as indices of neighborhood deterioration. The study combined sex- oriented and alcohol- oriented businesses, so its conclusions are only suggestive of the effects of sexually oriented businesses alone. Nevertheless, the study reached the following important conclusions: 1. There is a statistically significant correlation between the location of adult businesses and neighborhood deterioration. -7- Page 77