Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado

Re:Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Hav... by danielweber on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:53AM (#7977685)

http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/20...

Crimes against persons: up about 24%

Crimes against property: down about 10%

Crimes against society: up about 23% which includes narcotics crimes up by 21%

All other crimes: up over 150%

No one should be trying to read data out of this noise, but if you are, it's not looking good for any legalization argument.

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Re:Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Hav... by jws on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:02PM (#7977750)

Over half of the overall increase comes from a huge increase in "Disorderly Conduct/Disturbing the Peace" (> 6x), and "Criminal Trespass" (> 3x).

Those two categories plus a similar growth buried in "All Other Offenses" accounts for essentially all of the growth in reported crimes.

There is probably a story there somewhere.

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Re:Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Hav... by _archon_ on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:22PM (#7978223)

I agree, and I suspect that it's likely "a cop stops $unsavory_character and wants to charge him with something; as his possession of marijuana is no longer illegal, he must choose something more contrived."

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Re:Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Hav... by jws on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:57PM (#7978490)

Drug violations are also up slightly and the increase from the three named groups is about double the previous year's drug violations.

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