2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

CRIME INCIDENCE The Data Processing Unit of the Indianapolis Pclice Department performed two computer runs of their ''Incidence Files" I in August of 1983 at the request of the City Division of Planning. The re- sultant printouts detailed all reported incidents to which po- lice had been dispatched in the Cc-itrol Areas and the Study Areas during the years 1978, ?979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. Data were assem- bled from these printouts on a year -by -year, area -by -area basis. They were then grouped by Major Crimes2 and Sex -Related Crimes.3 Summary data for the Indianapolis Police District were also assem- bled for major crimes during the years 1978 through 1982. Unfor- tunately, sex-related crimes had not been discreetly assembled for the Police District and study constraints would not allow their tabulation manually. The purpose of these tabulations was to identify any possible abnormalities that might have occurred in expected frequency and nature of crime between the Indianapolis Police District, the Control Areas which were chosen for their similarity to the Study Areas and the Study Areas themselves in which adult enter- tainment establishments were in operation. As was demonstrated in the previous section, the Study Area loca- [ions were chosen as -being representative of existing adult en- tertainment sites in zoning mix, size of population, age of hous- ing stock and types of adult entertainment services offered in the area. Excepting the latter, these same criteria were used in the choice of Control sites. Because they were representative, it is possible to compare Control and Study Areas as well as in- fer findings to other adult entertainment locations in the com- munity. Based on the summaries of crimes, crime rates were computed fpr each area using 1980 Census data as the population constant., The crime rate statistics portrayed the frequency of crime in each area for each 10,000 of population and allowed direct com- parison of crime impacts between the three areas. The same tech- nique was used to compare the magnitude of sex-related crime in the Control Areas and the Study Areas. EVER0001 5