Yet, only a year earlier, a study by the same agency revealed altogether different findings in relation to crime and strip clubs. In a survey of 18 law enforcement agencies, the reference service found no significant crime reports in or near sexually oriented businesses within the agencies' jurisdictions. The violations most often associated with these businesses were prostitution and sex on the premises. The last time citations were issued for such crimes was in 1997, when The Crazy Lady, Penthouse Men's Club, and The Yellow Rose were all cited. The Austin Police Department, for its part, declined to comment on the secondary effects of strip clubs.
Someone's probably more likely to do that after they play laser tag.
Still, it's an opinion to which the U.S. Supreme Court has given some legal standing. The Supreme Court ruled over 20 years ago that nude dancing can be a protected form of expression under the First Amendment. But in 1991, the court said that local governments could require dancers to cover up at least a little. In the 1991 case Barnes v. Glen Theater , Justice David Souter wrote in a majority opinion that the government could essentially assume that destructive secondary effects result from the presence of nude dancing establishments. The Erie ruling defines the standard even more specifically.