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i - <br /> 1 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 /> 1110 <br /> I having no sexually oriented businesses. <br /> 1 <br /> i <br /> Los Angeles <br /> • <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 <br /> g to use similar areas as a control. The study <br /> _l 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 /> • <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 /> 1 forgery, prostitution, narcotics, liquor law violations, and gambling) increased 3.4 <br /> I percent in the rest of Los Angeles, but 45.4 percent in the Hollywood yw od area. <br /> • <br /> Concentration of Sexually Oriented Businesses <br /> 1 Neighborhood Case Study <br /> IIn 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 /> 1 The neighborhood, as a whole, shows s. o s srgns of.significant distress, including the <br /> highest unemployment rates in the city, the highest percentage of families below the <br /> I poverty line in the city, the lowest median family income and the lowestercenta a of <br /> P 9 <br /> high school and college graduates. (See 40-Acre Study on Adult Entertainment, St. <br /> 1 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 /> ioriented businesses. <br /> i <br /> -10- <br />