how many of these crimes are committed by illegal aliens?
Posted on 12/19/2015 7:08:57 AM PST by rktman
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.
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Pot is like alcohol its not for everyone.
OP takes one fact, that being increased crime, and ties it to another fact, legalization of marijuana. A does not necessarily relate to B. This is the sort of ‘false fact’ analysis that ‘social scientists’ and advocates use regularly. The rising crime may be related to increased unreported unemployment, alcoholism, change in population within a community (illegals, etc) or any number of issues.
Exactly and legalizing it is a great lure for more lowlifes.
I have several potheads in my circle of friends. Here are some their summaries:
Doug is married and the father of two. He smokes recreationally, mainly on the weekends. Until recently he worked for a major high tech firm, but he has taken “voluntary termination” which gives him about 6 months of reduced pay without working. He has decided that the time off will be best spent hiking the Appalacian Trail. His wife is struggling to hold down a job that leaves little time for her to take care of her family. He often announces on Friday that he is going camping by himself for the weekend.
Jim is in my son’s band. He smokes basically whenever he can. He claims it helps with digestive issues. Raised in the LDS church, he has turned his back on religion and calls himself an Athiest Socialist Anarchist. He has many bodily piercings and just got a giant anatomically correct tattoo of a heart with a red X over it on his upper arm. At 20 years old he lives with his girlfriend’s family because he can’t afford a place of his own.
Bob is 60. He has smoked weed his whole life. He just got divorced from his 4th wife. He lost his job when it was discovered that he was telling people that he owned the company and had opened bank accounts in it’s name. After being fired he has launched a vendetta against his former employers who he says “had it in for him”. He has vandalized company property and lied to customers causing the company to lose over 100 clients.
I could go on, but for every casual smoker who thinks weed doesn’t hurt them there are many more who just don’t realize how it is ruining their lives by impairing their judgement, delaying maturity and destroying their motivation.
how many of these crimes are committed by illegal aliens?
Only possible connection I can make is that some of the criminal element have lost their source of income when the state took it over. Perhaps these newly unemployed are trying to take out their competition in other non legal drug traffic.
In the end the increase in violent crime is a direct result of the BLM lie. Cops are less involved, the criminal element is emboldened. A bad combination.
Maybe “reefer madness” really exists.
I’m opposed to the legalization of marijuana.
As a Coloradan, I voted against it.
That said, I’ll bet there is a bigger correlation to be found with the increased number of Muslims and/or illegals than marijuana use.
Denver is a Sanctuary City with a mayor who has welcomed the Syrians.
I think marijuana is dangerous to society as a whole.
Illegals and Muslims are deadly.
Libertarian Utopia is as false as all utopias
Oh man, you even suggest that the weed is part of the problem and they flip out like Muslims when you draw Mohammed. That weed is SACRED.
The spike has nothing to do with marijuana. Any sentient being will tell you it’s climate change.
More Reefer Madness hysteria from the American ‘Thinker’.
“It’s hard to tell if the 15 percent increase in total crime was directly related to cannabis or following an earlier trend, however, as crime in Denver rose 40 percent from 2010-2013” - http://www.westword.com/news/marijuana-study-is-rise-in-denver-crime-linked-to-pot-6839696
Might also have something to do with all those gun control laws the democrats passed in 2013, too.
More gun control laws always result in more crime.
But they have enough moxie and concentration to get on Social Security Disability for life so they can continue their pot-smoking ways forever on the public dime.
America! Is this a GREAT country, or what!!??
Oh, and when it comes to video games, they are high-level Grand Masters.
'Experiment', lol. Throughout recorded history, mj was never illegal anyplace until the Progressive Era. Some experiment.
So crime is up in Denver. American Thinker claims this is due to the legalization of cannabis. Yet they offer no evidence to tie the two together.
This “article” doesn’t pass the laugh test, IMO.
But when the subject is environmental alarmism, the 'Thinker' has a keen nose for the same kind of junk science it revels in with regard to pot:
"If it can't be tested, it isn't science.
"The scientific method is based on skeptical experimentation that looks for reliable evidence. Fallacies of scientific inquiry include confusing temporal with causal relationships (post hoc, propter hoc fallacy)" - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/04/the_epas_faulty_science_can_be_stopped.html
I don’t know about “madness,” but it is pretty clear that long term use messes you up.
Of course it could always be that people with seriously messed up thought processes and maturity issues tend to be marijuana users. Maybe they’d be just as screwed up even if they didn’t smoke.
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