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whereas major crime races were similar in residential areas of <br />the Control and Scudy Areas, the Control Area rate was Subs can- <br />cially higher in district commercial areas and Icwer;n maxed <br />discrict corm-ercial/residential areas. In contrasc ts, <br />sex-related crime the <br />race o thiwas uniformly higher in all land <br />gor use catt- <br />es of the Study Area, ranging from -46e in residential areas <br />to +152% in district commercial/residential areas. <br />5UMMARY OF FINDINGS' <br />Both the Control and the Study Area experienced a sig- <br />nificancly higher incidence of major crimes/10,000on <br />populati <br />than the IPD District as a whole. Much of this,increase <br />would be expected given their location in generally older, <br />less affluent and more populous areas of the city. <br />It is more difficult to explain the distinctly higher crime <br />rate experienced in the Study, Areas as compared to the Con- <br />trol Area - 1,090,51 versus 886.34. <br />This dicotomy is even more apparent in the instance of sex- <br />related crime rates in the two areas. The average sex-related <br />crime rate in the Control Areas was 26.2. The Study Areas had <br />an average rate of 46,4. <br />If the same ratio between the Control and Study Areas estab- <br />lished for major crime during this period were applied, we <br />would expect a crime rate that was 23% higher - or 32.3 - in <br />the Study Areas. The actual rate of 46.4 is 77% higher than that: <br />Of the Control Area and undersczres a. distinct departure from <br />the expected. Not only is the rate subs tan t i a 1 ly higher i n <br />the Study Area, but it i s twice the rate that would have been <br />expected from the distribution of crimes <br />polis. generally in Indiana - <br />The anomalies demonstrated in the comparison of the Study <br />Area with the general popu]aticn and the Control Area will not, <br />in themselves, establish a causal relationship between Adult <br />Entertainment Businesses and the crime rates in the immediate <br />area surrounding there. The fact does remain, however, that In <br />each subsection of the Study Areas where adult entertainment is <br />offered a substantially,hig-her sex-related crime presence ob- <br />tains over the corresponding subsections of the Control Area. <br />in which no adult entertainment is offered. The same is true <br />regarding the rate of major crimes. <br />18 EVER00027 <br />