Cleveland Crime: 2009 (Columbus: place to live, buses, tickets)

[Chef Boyardee]

The term "drug related crime" appears to be vague. From what I've read, it seems like if "illegal" drugs/use are present anywhere on the crime scene, then you might be able to officially call that, "a drug related crime," in The U.S.A.

My guess is, people who happen to be high, sometimes murder each other. And, well, people who spend a lot of time around illegal drugs, do bad things, more often than people who don't, because they have low character.

[ClevelandMike]

Right on Chef!

[jam40jeff]

Drug-related crimes often refer to the fact that those involved were either using or selling drugs. In the inner city, more often than not, those involved were selling drugs. (A higher percentage of kids from the suburbs use drugs than those in the inner city. I do not have any stats on adults in these groups.) People involved in the sale of drugs are usually more violent than those using drugs. This is due to the underground nature of the economic activity. If someone stiffs you on a drug sale, there is no legal recourse, and thus the law of the street is the only way to "get even". That is one of the reasons why you see such a high crime rate in areas where drugs are sold, similar to the spike in crime that occurred during Prohibition. I am not advocating for the legality of drugs, I am simply explaining why I think the sale of drugs correlates to a high crime rate.

[1watertiger]

Philip Harris identified as victim in East 151st Street shooting - Metro - cleveland.com.

[Chef Boyardee]

"Of the 253,300 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses at yearend 2005, 113,500 (44.8%) were black, 51,100 (20.2%) were Hispanic, and 72,300 (28.5%) were white."

Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, and West, Heather C., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2007 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2008), NCJ224280, p. 21, Appendix Table 10.

Race and Prison | Drug War Facts

[1watertiger]

Man shot dead on Cleveland's East Side - Metro - cleveland.com

[WeSoHood]

Originally Posted by Chef Boyardee

"Of the 253,300 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses at yearend 2005, 113,500 (44.8%) were black, 51,100 (20.2%) were Hispanic, and 72,300 (28.5%) were white."

Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, and West, Heather C., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2007 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2008), NCJ224280, p. 21, Appendix Table 10.

Race and Prison | Drug War Facts

Please leave.

Crime is directly related to socioeconomic issues, not race. If race was the sole factor in crimes, many European countries would NOT have higher crime than the US. Nor would Russia. Are you by any chance a poster by the name of factslogic on Cleveland.com?

[Chef Boyardee]

The region of The World with the highest rate of murder is Southern Africa, followed by Central America. The region with the lowest rate is West and Central Europe, preceded by East and Southeast Asia.

The Former Soviet Union has a relatively high murder rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...by_murder_rate

[Chef Boyardee]

Originally Posted by Chef Boyardee

"Of the 253,300 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses at yearend 2005, 113,500 (44.8%) were black, 51,100 (20.2%) were Hispanic, and 72,300 (28.5%) were white."

Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, and West, Heather C., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2007 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2008), NCJ224280, p. 21, Appendix Table 10.

Race and Prison | Drug War Facts

Remember, Blacks are only 13% of the population

[jam40jeff]

From the same website you posted a link to:

"Most drug offenders are white. Five times as many whites use drugs as blacks. Yet blacks comprise the great majority of drug offenders sent to prison."