Posted on 03/19/2016 5:58:30 AM PDT by rktman
Denver has just released its crime statistics for February of this year, and the city's post-marijuana crime explosion continues.
In the first two months of 2016, total reported offenses using the NIBRS definitions are up a further 10.5% over this time last year. Crimes against persons have increased 14.1%, property crimes are up 13.8%, and crimes against society are up 18.4% compared to the same time frame in 2015.
For comparison, in January and February of 2013 – the last year for these two months before marijuana legalization – there were just 6,791 crimes in the city. During January and February of 2016, there were 9,985, a 47% increase over the same period from 2013.
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But they told us that the worst effect of legalization would be multiple cases of ‘the munchies’!
Reefer madness? #stonerlivesmatter
Post Pot Ergo Propter Pot?
Not really a problem. Just legalize that too.
“Crimes against society” seems an odd definition.
You would think that meant a James Bond “continent-killing” foe.
The crap bags are going there from other states. I think it’s almost as bad as the illegals jumping the wall.
Laws? We don't need your stinking Laws!
Heroin seems to be a growing problem in many places since easy access to pills isn’t so easy.
I wonder if there is a rise of junkies in Colorado.
Junkies will do anything for another fix. Pot smokers can’t even get off the couch.
Yeah, I was wondering how they define that or is just a “catch all” for any crime. Just think how serious it would be if the tag “Hate” on to it. You know, “Hateful Crimes against Society”. Could that apply to rioters and looters and ‘disrupters’?
How can that be? Everyone should be mellowed out, dudes.
It must be outsider losers coming to town to get high & can’t handle the altitude.
It’s because of the pot? Well, maybe. Then again it might be the Mayor, Hancock, and the dirtbag police chief he brought in a couple years ago. The city government in Denver now has all the elements for success that Detroit had two decades ago.
Statistically it’s an assignable cause. Making it legal hasn’t made it disappear.
Back away from the Oreos!
But on the good news front, traffic injuries/fatalities are down, because no one goes over eight miles an hour while driving extremely carefully.
I used to live in downtown Denver. The crime was being committed by teens in saggy pants wearing $200 Air Jordans who robbed people for the sport of it. LoDo is a target-rich environment.
Baked Lives Matter
People always think that lowering the moral climate will make things better. I don’t know why they think that.
Murders are up in cities all across America, most of which did not legalize pot.
I knew a guy who’s kid got hooked on weed and I don’t know what else after that. Consumed much of his life for several years. He has bounced back and is actually travelled a long and successful road to recovery. The sad thing is, it obviously damaged the guy. He’s just not the same confident and optimistic spirit he was before. Anyone who thinks the stuff today is the same as 20-30 years ago may be in for a sorry surprise. For myself, I don’t want to know.
Anyway, yeah, I could see the stuff as medicinal. The same as any other dangerous drug that should never be abused. It absolutely does altered the individual who consumes it.
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