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is _! -1 71_1 1. r r,c.11 I 01.....C.C.1 IC. I o rcr. <br />Ili L. 1 I 1 t.,C- LHIYHLi 1 <br />3. The study area with the greatest concentration of sexually oriented <br />businesses had a sex crimes rate over 11 times as large as a similar area <br />having no sexually oriented businesses. <br />Los Angeles <br />A study released by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1984 supports a <br />relationship between sexually oriented businesses and rising crime rates. This study is <br />less definitive, since it was not designed to use similar areas as a control. The study <br />indicated that there were 11 sexually oriented adult establishments in the Hollywood, <br />California, area in 1969. By 1975, the number had grown to 88. During the same time <br />period, reported incidents of "Part I" crime (i.e., homicide, rape, aggravated assault, <br />robbery, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft) increased 7.6 percent in the Hollywood <br />area while the rest of Los Angeles had a 4.2 percent increase. "Part II" arrests (i.e. <br />forgery, prostitution, narcotics, liquor law violations, and gambling) increased 3.4 <br />percent in the rest of Los Angeles, but 45.4 percent in the Hollywood area. <br />Concentration of Sexually Oriented Businesses <br />Neighborhood Case Study <br />In St. Paul, there is one neighborhood which has an especially heavy concentration <br />of sexually oriented businesses. The blocks adjacent to the intersection of University <br />Avenue and Dale Street have more than 20 percent of the city's adult uses (4 out of 19), <br />including all of St. Paul's sexually oriented bookstores and movie theaters. <br />The neighborhood, as a whole, shows signs of significant distress, including the <br />highest unemployment rates in the city, the highest percentage of families below the <br />poverty line in the city, the lowest median family income and the lowest percentage of <br />high school and college graduates. (See 40 -Acre Study on Adult Entertainment. St. <br />Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development, Division of Planning, 1987 at <br />p. 19.) It would be difficult to attribute these problems in any simple way to sexually <br />oriented businesses. <br />-10- <br />Page 80 <br />