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Consultants' Final Report - Page 24 <br />business addresses, but this may be expected. <br />Of course, one can argue that the relationship is noncausal or spurious; <br />that these businesses simply moved into a neighborhood that happened to already <br />have a high crime rate. We test and reject this hypothesis in the next section. For <br />now, we draw attention to the Bar/Tavern addresses in Table 2. If the alternative <br />hypothesis is that the Garden Grove Boulevard neighborhoods had high crime <br />rates before the seven adult businesses moved in, we would expect to these <br />addresses to have high crime rates as well (more so given that alcohol is served at <br />these addresses). On the contrary, however, we. find that these addresses have <br />generally lower crime rates than the adult business addresses. Whereas three of <br />seven adult business addresses are in the top ten Part I crime "hot spots," only two <br />of nine bar/tavern addresses make the top -ten list. In this sense, the seven adult <br />business addresses on Garden Grove Boulevard constitute serious, significant <br />public safety hazards. <br />EVER00370 <br />