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3. The study area with the greatest concentration of sexually oriented businesses had a sex crimes rate over 11 times as large as a similar area having no sexually oriented businesses. Los Anoeles A study released by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1984 supports a relationship between sexually oriented businesses and rising crime rates. This study Is less definitive, since It was not designed to use similar areas as a control. The study indicated that there were 11 sexually oriented adult establishments In the Hollywood, Callfomia. area In 1969. By 1975, the number had grown to 88. During the same time period, reported incidents of “Part r crime (I*®*# homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft) Increased 7.6 percent in tne Hollywood area while the rest of Los Angeles had a 4.2 percent Increase. “Part ir arrests (l.e. forgery, prostitution, narcotics, liquor law violations, and gambling) Increased 3.4 percent In the rest of Los Angeles, but 45.4 percent in the Hollywood area. Concentration of Sexually Oriented Businesses Neighborhood Casa Study In SL Paul, there is one neighborhood which has an especially heavy concentration of sexually oriented businesses. The blocks adjacent to the Intersection of University Avenue and Dale Street have more than 20 percent of the city’s adult uses (4 out of 19), including ail of St Paul's sexually oriented bookstores and movie theaters. The neighborhood, as a whole, shows signs of significant distress, Including the highest unemployment rates in the city, the highest percentage of famflies below the poverty line in the city, the lowest median family Income and the lowest percentage of high school and college graduates. (See 40-Acre Study on Adult Entertainment St Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development, Division of Planning, 1987 at p. 19.) It would be difficult to attribute these problems in any simple way to sexually oriented businesses. 10-