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<br /> r, I <br /> , <br /> I~ /~C I <br /> - <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 /> . <br /> - <br /> Los An~eles I <br /> - <br /> A study released by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1984 supports a I <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 '" crime (i.e., homicide, rape, aggravated assault, I <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. I <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 /> -I <br /> ConcentratIon of Sexuallv Oriented Businesses I <br /> Nel~hborhood Case Study <br /> In St. Paul, there is one neighborhood which has an especially heavy concentration I <br /> of sexually oriented businesses. The blocks adjacent to the intersection of.University I <br /> i 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 /> 11 The neighborhood, as a whole, shows signs of significant distress, including the I <br /> highest unemployment rates in the city, the highest percentage of families below the I <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. I <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 /> Q oriented businesses. I <br /> -. <br /> . -10- <br /> . I <br />