Denver's 2015 post-marijuana legalization crime wave intensifies

Interesting! What’s up with this? One of the supposed benefits of marijuana legalization was that it would free police from enforcing victimless crime like marijuana possession and allow them to focus more of their time and efforts on suppressing violent crime. But something we have learned in the past four decades is that Liberal city administrations are not interested in diverting resources toward suppressing crime and thereby enhancing public safety. They would rather spend their money on their pet social justice/social engineering projects. To that end city and county police forces have been reduced by half in many metropolitan areas over the past 20 years. The result is flourishing crime against both property and persons simply  because there are fewer police patrolmen and detectives to respond to reports of crime. So the rise in crime in Denver may be a symptom of Leftist run government indifference to crime-fighting rather than a strict cause and effect result of the legalization of Marijuana. The legalization of Marijuana is in itself a symptom of the Left’s indifference toward enforcing rules or maintaining a quality of life and social order or anything else that does not serve to advance their own transformational agenda. Nearly all of America’s most crime-ridden cities have two things in common: a Democrat run city government and a high black population. An exception is Indianapolis which has a Republican run administration and a high black population. However we have recently come to understand that the Republican politicians have largely become either thoroughly intimidated or have been bought out and thus are frequently unable and unwilling to promote any kind of policy agenda of their own in the face of Leftist resistance. Even though Leftists constitute a political minority in most parts of the country they are able to wield more power and influence than Conservatives or Republicans and can generally bully and coerce Republican officials into letting them have their way. Which may be why the Republican administration in Indianapolis finds itself unable to suppress violent crime.

As another month goes by in Colorado's marijuana legalization experiment, Denver's 2015 crime wave cranks up yet another notch.

November's crime data is out for the city, and it doesn't tell a pretty story.  There were another eight murders in Denver during November, bringing the year-to-date total to 50, which is more than 72 percent higher than last year's numbers.

Across the board, other violent crime in Denver is also skyrocketing this year.  The number of rapes has increased 16 percent, robberies are up 13 percent, and aggravated assaults are up 14 percent based on the UCR standards and up 15 percent using the NIBRS definition.

Overall violent crime has increased 14 percent.  Total crimes are up almost 4 percent.

In 2014, marijuana legalization advocates were claiming that the opposite trends would take place.  Crime should decrease, they said, because marijuana use doesn't lead to criminal behavior, and the decriminalization of the substance should reduce organized crime associated with the sale of a formerly illicit drug.

If the data so far is any indication, the Pollyannas were wrong.

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