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<br /> r. I <br /> , <br /> 1'1.f~~ .1 <br /> - 3. The study area with the greatest concentration of sexually oriented <br /> businesses had a sex crimes rate over 11 tirnes as large as a similar area I <br /> - having no sexually oriented businesses. - <br /> I <br /> - <br /> Los Anqeles 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, I <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, 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 /> Concentration of Sexually Oriented Businesses . <br /> NelqhborhOOd 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 /> 1 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 . <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 /> Q oriented businesses. I <br /> -I <br /> . -10- <br /> . . <br />