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App. B / Adult Businesses <br />arcades and massage parlors. A 1984 study entitled "Adult <br />Entertainment Businesses in Indianapolis" found that areae <br />with sexually oriented businesses had higher crime rates <br />than similar areas with no sexually oriented businesses. <br />(1) Major crimes, such as criminal homicide, rape, rob- <br />bery, assault, burglary, and larceny, occurred at a rate <br />that was 23 percent higher in those areae which had <br />sexually oriented businesses. <br />(2) The sex-related crime rate, including rape, indecent <br />exposure, and child molestation, was found to be 77 <br />percent higher in those areas with sexually oriented <br />businesses. <br />Phoenix <br />The Planning Department of Phoenix, Arizona published <br />a study in 1979 entitled "Relation of Criminal Activity and <br />Adult Businesses." This study showed that arrests for sexual <br />crimes and the location of sexually oriented businesses were <br />directly related. The study compered three areae with sexu- <br />ally oriented businesses with three control areas which had <br />similar demographic and land use characteristics, but no <br />sexually oriented establishments. The study found that, <br />(1) Property crimes were 43 percent higher in those <br />areas which contained a sexually oriented business. <br />(2) The sex crime rate was 600 percent higher in those <br />areae with sexually oriented businesses. <br />(3) The study area with the greatest concentration of <br />sexually oriented businesses had a sex crimes rate <br />over 11 times as large as a similar area having no <br />sexually oriented businesses. <br />Minnesota Attorney General's Report / App. B <br />Los Angeles <br />A study released by the Los Angeles Police Department in <br />1984 supports a relationship between sexually oriented busi- <br />nesses and rising crime rates. This study is less definitive, <br />since it was not designed to use similar areas as a control. <br />The study indicated that there were 11 sexually oriented <br />adult establishments in the Hollywood, California, area in <br />1969. By 1976, the number had grown to 88. During the same <br />time period, reported incidents of "Part 1" crime (i.e., homi- <br />cide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and <br />vehicle theft) increased 7.6 percent in the Hollywood area <br />while the rest of Los Angeles had a 4.2 percent increase. "Part <br />11" arrests (i.e., forgery, prostitution, narcotics, liquor law <br />violations, and gambling) increased 3.4 percent in the rest of <br />Los Angeles, but 46.4 percent in the Hollywood area. <br />Concentration of Sexually Oriented Businesses <br />Neighborhood Case Study <br />In St. Paul, there is one neighborhood which has an <br />especially heavy concentration of sexually oriented busi- <br />nesses. The blocks adjacent to the intersection of University <br />Avenue and Dale Street have more than 20 percent of the <br />city's adult uses (4 out of 19), including all of St. Paul's <br />sexually oriented bookstores and movie theaters. <br />The neighborhood, as a whole, shows signs of significant <br />distress, including the highest unemployment rates in the <br />city, the highest percentage of families below the poverty line <br />in the city, the lowest median family income and the lowest <br />percentage of high school and college graduates. (See 40 -Acre <br />Study on Adult Entertainment, St. Paul Department of Plan- <br />ning and Economic Development, Division of Planning, <br />1987, at 19.) It would be difficult to attribute these problems <br />in any simple way to sexually oriented businesses. <br />However, it is likely that there is a relationship between <br />the concentration of sexually oriented businesses -nd neigh - <br />386 1 _. 87 <br />CD <br />w <br />