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When Colorado legalized weed more than a year ago, opponents of the move warned that crime would rise. But half a year after the first sales of recreational marijuana began, the state's biggest city has yet to see an increase in criminal activity.
During the first six months of 2014, violent crime in the city and county of Denver was down 3 percent from the same period in 2013, according to the most recent available data. Three of the four main categories of violent crime that are tracked in the data -- homicide, sexual assault and robbery -- are all down from the same six-month stretch last year. Aggravated assault, the fourth category, is up 2.2 percent.
Burglaries and robberies at the city's dispensaries of medical and/or recreational marijuana are on track to hit a three-year low, according to a separate report from Denver's Department of Safety, first reported by The Denver Post.
Overall, property crime in the city is down by more than 11 percent from the same six-month period of 2013.
When Colorado cautiously legalized recreational marijuana, critics strongly warned it would lead to more crime throughout the state. But, in what could easily be considered a big slap-on-the-face to all marijuana haters, the overall crime rate actually plummeted. As reported by the state’s official website, crime data for Denver, the hub of legal pot sales in the state, shows that murders, assaults, rapes, burglaries, and other violent have crimes actually declined during the first three months of the year, compared with the same period for 2013.
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I would be careful to draw conclusions too fast; crime rates fluctuate. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...achusetts.html
if you look at this table for Boston, crime dropped 12.5% between 2006 and 2007 with no major changes in the laws.
Most other cities have similar fluctuations, but Boston's is rather pronounced.
Last edited by btownboss4; 01-10-2015 at 09:57 PM..
It's a classic win-win. Have to wonder why so many people believe the lies even when provided with solid, irrefutable evidence?
Its purely political.
The right associates marijuana use with the sixties and the civil rights movement, hippies,
anti-authoratiarianism, the anti-war movement etc. and they despise anything that challenges
their authority.
The right associates marijuana use with the sixties and the civil rights movement, hippies,
anti-authoratiarianism, the anti-war movement etc. and they despise anything that challenges
their authority.
As does the left. Last time I checked, Obama is still leading the war on drugs. Yes, it's purely political.
3%, for just one year?
Does it prove anything? No.
Correct. It doesn't prove anything. But that's typical of crime statistics. They are almost impossible to link to the cause of the changes.
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