State by State Pornography Related News Reports
Pornography related news, crime, and case reports aggregated by: ADF Alliance Alert
Some 750,000 pedophiles prowling Internet: UN
July 13, 2009 United Nations Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Ohio: May 2008 Report to the Town of Milford Planning Board by Chief of Police Thomas J. O’Loughlin
Milford Chief of Police: “In reviewing numerous studies and in my professional experience as a police official for thirty (30) years, twenty-two of which I have served as a Chief of Police in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, it is my professional opinion that there exists a number of secondary or derivative effects that emanate from Adult Entertainment Enterprises.”
July 1996: “St. Marys, Georgia Police Department Report to Mayor and Council: The Evidence of Relationships Between Adult-Oriented Businesses and Community Crime and Disorder”
The Evidence of Relationships Between Adult-Oriented Businesses and Community Crime and Disorder: “There are many inferences associated with adult-oriented businesses and crime, disorder, or public safety “hot spots,” the dangers of drugs, money laundering and, indeed, organized crime.”
Rome City, GA, March 1995
Report to Rome City Commission on Adult Entertainment: “I called on the Augusta Police Department, Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office, Carrollton Police Department, and Lagrange Police Department. I asked each agency for their assistance with the crime rate surrounding adult entertainment and the impact it has had on their city or county.”
May 1990: Tucson, Arizona Police Memorandum
Tucson Police Memorandum: “Initial reports indicated that sexual activity was occurring on the premises between customers and prostitutes, customers and the entertainers and between the customers themselves.”
1984-1989: A Look At Successful Abatement of Adult Oriented Business Nuisances in Oklahoma City
A Look At Successful Abatement of Adult Oriented Business Nuisances: Oklahoma City is a city of over 650 square miles within city limits with an MSA population is nearly 750,000. In the early 1980’s Oklahoma City had a disproportionately large number of “Adult Oriented businesses.”
1976: The Impact of Obscenity on the Total Community, Cleveland, Ohio
The Impact of Obscenity on the Total Community: “In one study tract with five sexually oriented businesses and 730 people, there were 136 robberies. In the city’s largest tract (13,587 people, zero pornography outlets) there were only 14 robberies.”
