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ADULT USE ESTABLISHMENTS AND <br />CRIMINAL ACTIVITY <br />General Crime Statistics <br />Over the pjast five years, according to the Office of Midtown Enforcement, <br />police statistics show an estimated .54% decrease in crime in the Times .Square area. <br />This decrease parallels the decrease *in adult use .establishments,and although'-we <br />cannot claim.direct causality it Is interesting to.note thaf-there-Is both the perception <br />and. the'reality-that'Times"Square Is a'safer'place'than lt�'wasyears'ago. rWhile we`` <br />were not able to collect crime statistics over a broad range of'tirne, we were able to <br />obtain information from the New York City Police Department for our Study and <br />Control Blocs.'for`a�th�ee=month~,period in=1993.'�Qo c a'3'" 91u?j ;Zrr c. - :y� �s j' <br />In addition, data on control blockfronts with no adult use establishments were <br />requested for Ninth Avenue between 45th and 48th Streets, and for 42nd Street <br />between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The latter was selected as the control block for <br />this purpose,.ratherthan the block between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue that had <br />been used in analyzing property. tax data, (see p..25-30), because. it was felt that <br />encompassing the Port Authority Bus Terminal, with its unrelated associated crime <br />statistics, would not provide a meaningful basis of comparison to the study block. <br />The crime.data reports_were prepared _by.T.the.,. Precincts _:-in which,-.these <br />blockfronts are located: Midtown South, Midtown North, and the Tenth Precinct.The <br />reports generated by :these precincts do not include complaints for prostitution or <br />drugs (other than criminal possession of a controlled substance), as these crimes are <br />reported in an incompatible .format. (We did;: however obtain some information on <br />prostitution activity from other sources, which will be described below.) In addition, <br />certain desired data, such as known locations for drug-dealing, are part of on-going <br />investigations and prosecutions, and thus not available to us. The data we have used <br />reflect the numbers of criminal comvlaints, not arrests, for known addresses; or <br />locations along the block-fronts under study;-- <br />Actual <br />tudy: Actual complaints were listed for a wide range of crime categories, including <br />Grand and Petit Larceny, Grand and Petit Larceny from an Auto; Criminal Possession <br />of Controlled Substance; Criminal Harassment; Assault, Robbery, and Fraudulent <br />Accosting. Each precinct used slightly different categories in preparing its reports for <br />this study, but in general, the major categories were similar. Certain crimes were <br />more prevalent in specific locations. For example, a larger number of complaints of <br />Grand and Petit Larceny from an Auto were noted along Eighth Avenue between 45th <br />and 48th Streets; this may reflect the presence there of parking lots. <br />EVER00217 <br />31 <br />