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The study analyzed crime rates, comparing areas with adult businesses to other areas <br />containing similar land uses but no adult businesses. The results were that the sex-related <br />crime rate was between two and five times greater in the areas with adult businesses. The <br />study also showed that the sex-related crime rate was 66 percent higher in areas having two <br />or more adult businesses than in those areas having only one such business. The study <br />included a survey of 120 real estate brokers and appraisal firms. The results showed that 88 <br />percent of the respondents believed the presence of an adult business would decrease property <br />values of residential property within a one -block radius and 69 percent felt an adult use <br />would reduce the value of commercial property within the same radius. <br />Phoenix, Arizona <br />In 1979, the Planning Department of Phoenix designed a study to determined if there was a <br />relationship between arrests for sex crimes and the locations of adult businesses." The <br />number of property crimes, violent crimes and sex-related crimes in 1978 were compared for <br />three study areas containing adult businesses and three otherwise similar control areas that <br />did not contain adult businesses. <br />There was a significantly greater difference between the study and control areas for sex- <br />related crimes than for property or violent crimes: an overall increase of six times the sex <br />crime rate in the study areas over the control areas. Although more than half of the arrests <br />for sex crimes were for indecent exposure, the remainder of sex crimes remained significantly <br />high. In one study area with a concentration of adult businesses and the highest number of <br />reported sex crimes for the areas studied, 89 percent of the reported indecent exposure cases <br />were committed at the addresses of the adult businesses. When compared to its control area, <br />the sex crime rate (per 1,000 residences) for that study area, was over 11 times greater; in <br />the remaining two study areas, which each contained one adult business, the sex crimes rate <br />was four times and almost three times as great as the comparable control areas. <br />Minnesota <br />In 1988, the Attorney General of Minnesota formed a Working Group on the Regulation of <br />Sexually -Oriented Businesses to review data presented by various jurisdictions within the <br />state.' <br />'I "Adult Business Stud g <br />Study," Planning Department, City of Phoenix, May 25, 1979. <br />12 Report of the (ivlinnesota) Attorney General's Working Group on the Regulation of Sexually -Oriented <br />Businesses, June 6, 1989. <br />7 EVER00106 <br />