Updated(3): Rising Crime Rates In Washington, DC, Denver, Alaska and Seattle After Pot Legalized

Posted March 17, 2016 10:33 PM ET; Last updated April 13, 2016 10:35 PM ET

[Updated April 13, 2016 10:35 PM ET]

[From article]
Washington, DC, did indeed legalize marijuana on February 26, 2015, and since then, violent crime has increased substantially.
According to the latest crime data from the Metropolitan Police Department, the number of violent crimes during the first three months of 2016 is up 15% compared to the same time frame last year. By comparison, population growth in the area is only 2% per year.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/dc_legalizes_marijuana_violent_crime_increases.html

March 30, 2016
DC legalizes marijuana, violent crime increases
By Sierra Rayne

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[Updated March 23, 2016 8:51 PM ET]

[From article]
In February of 2015, it became legal to grow and consume marijuana in Alaska. And, as has happened in Denver and Seattle, crime immediately began to increase after being stable or declining in the pre-legal pot era.
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Channel 2 KTUU out of Anchorage reports that the 2015 "spike in Anchorage's murder rate along with other violent crime underscores why more patrol officers and detectives are needed on the streets, according to police, victims' advocates, union officials and city promoters."
More police are needed, along with a repeal of Alaska's legal marijuana experiment. The relatively small tax revenues from legalized weed do not come close to offsetting the corresponding economic and social costs.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/alaska_legalizes_pot_crime_explodes_in_anchorage.html

March 19, 2016
Alaska legalizes pot, crime explodes in Anchorage
By Sierra Rayne

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[Updated March 18, 2016 5:34 PM ET]
[From article]
As 2016 starts, crime is up yet again in the post-marijuana legalization metropolis of Denver, Colorado.
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Population increase doesn't come close to explaining the trend. Annual growth rates for population in the Denver and Metro Denver areas have been consistent at just 2% over this period, meaning the crime rate is rising rapidly.
And yet, somehow the Denver Post claims that "in any given year, marijuana-related crimes in Denver make up less than 1 percent of all offenses counted in the Uniform Crime Report
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There is no reliable way to determine what percentage of the reported crimes are due to marijuana legalization. Some offenses, when investigated by authorities, will show an unequivocal direct cause to marijuana use. But it is simply impossible to accurately measure all offenses directly caused by pot use.
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Consequently, the low rate of proven direct associations between crime in Denver and marijuana use is expected, and it tells us nothing about the actual direct causes of marijuana use on crime in the region. It is simply an unknowable question.
Equally important is the indirect effect of marijuana use. The legalization of pot sends a powerful anti-societal message to many, and its use can lead to socio-economic decline for individuals and families – the results of which may take a long period to show their real effects and be essentially impossible to link to marijuana use without a suite of equally long (and expensive) case studies. We lack the resources for these investigations, and, as a result, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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But what we do know is that the number of crimes in Denver skyrocketed started at the same time the legalized marijuana policy was implemented, and this empirical evidence, combined with what science tells us about the harmful psychological effects of marijuana use, is, while not conclusive, strongly suggestive that the social fabric is starting to unravel in the Mile-High City due to pot legalization.
And now we see that "Colorado's Governor is cautioning other states from legalizing marijuana." According to a report by Channel 7 ABC in Denver, Gov. John Hickenlooper made the following statements at a conference in Dallas on Tuesday:
You get all those young people who do certain things that some of us oppose and aren't crazy about, like legalizing marijuana. Let me tell you, if you're trying to encourage businesses to move to your state, some of the larger businesses, think twice about legalizing marijuana.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/crime_continuing_to_rise_in_denver_in_the_legal_pot_era.html

March 12, 2016
Crime continuing to rise in Denver in the legal pot era
By Sierra Rayne

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[From article]
Between 2008 and 2012, the number of total crimes and property crimes in the city was stable or declining, consistent with trends at the national level. Since adult possession of marijuana became legal in December 2012, the number of crimes has risen rapidly.
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Given that we see the same pre-/post-pot legalization crime pattern in Denver, while correlation is not necessarily causation, it is certainly suggestive based on the data from these geographically distinct regions.
Time must also be taken to debunk a key talking point of legal marijuana proponents: equating the difficulties of alcohol prohibition with marijuana prohibition. These two drugs present very different law enforcement challenges. The former can never be effectively eliminated, whereas availability of the latter can be substantially reduced via criminalization.
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In short, a prohibition on the materials from which alcohol is derived would lead to immediate mass starvation and, soon thereafter, the extinction of the human species (i.e., we would need to pretty much ban the biosphere), whereas a prohibition on the materials from which THC is derived requires us ONLY to criminalize a single largely commercially irrelevant, plant species. Attempting to equate these two efforts is intellectual nonsense and belies a clear lack of knowledge regarding the underlying science behind the two drugs.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/in_seattle_number_of_crimes_way_up_compared_to_prelegal_pot_era.html

March 16, 2016
In Seattle, number of crimes way up compared to pre-legal pot era
By Sierra Rayne

Deadly Rare Form Of Plague Found In Denver

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A Colorado man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of plague, an airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing.
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“He’s on treatment long enough to not be transmissible,” House said in a telephone interview. He may have contracted the illness from his dog, she said, which died suddenly and has also been found to carry the disease.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-11/deadliest-rarest-form-of-plague-contracted-near-denver.html

Deadliest, Rarest Form of Plague Contracted Near Denver
By Sonali Basak and Jennifer Oldham

Jul 12, 2014 12:00 AM ET

Denver Policeman Fights Over Swinger Couple

[From article]
9NEWS has learned the other officer present at the home with his wife was officer Jeremy Ownbey.
Sources tell 9NEWS an argument started over who would participate in the sexual activity. The women allegedly started fighting, the officers got involved to stop it, but got into an altercation themselves. Aurora police say Sloan pulled his gun during the incident.

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/06/04/aurora-police-investigate-dpd-officers-wives/9982027/

DPD cops, wives investigated for swingers party brawl
DPD cops, wives investigated for swingers party brawl. 

9NEWS at 10 p.m. 06/04/14.
KUSA 3:33 p.m. MDT June 6, 2014

Three Arrested For Denver Murders

Mugshots of the suspects: (left to right) Lynell J. Hill, Joseph
Nathanael Hill, and Dexter Lewis. (Photos provided by the Denver
Police Department)

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21800257/3-arrested-deaths-5-at-denver-bar

First of 3 accused of killing 5 at Fero's Bar in Denver held without bond
POSTED:   10/18/2012 06:39:19 AM MDT
UPDATED:   10/18/2012 05:08:55 PM MDTBy Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post

Five Bodies Found in Denver Bar

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121017/DA1VGNH02.html

5 dead in apparent arson-homicide at Denver bar
AP
Oct 17, 3:49 PM (ET)
By STEVEN K. PAULSON and P. SOLOMON BANDA

Murders by Denver FBI Informant

In this updated version of Hannibal Unmasked CBS News 48 Hours Mystery reports that a Denver FBI informant murdered at least 3 young women, and his uncle. The pattern repeated what happened in Boston with James "Whitey" Bulger, an informant working for Boston Special Agent John Connolly, who was convicted of murder. Bulger is in custody as of July 2011 in Boston after 16 years as a fugitive living in Santa Monica CA.

When the father of one woman went to the FBI to report that a man named "Hannibal" may have kidnapped his daughter, the FBI in Denver "dismissed it as pure fiction." "Hannibal" was Scott Kimball, an FBI informant who married the mother of another missing young Colorado woman.

John Davis' wrote "Mafia Kingfish" about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Davis reveals that several men reported to the FBI that there was a plot to kill the President in the months leading up to November 1963. The FBI dismissed all of the reports as unreliable. They had an opportunity to prevent the assassination but due to their arrogance they failed.

On one occasion I visited the FBI's office to report criminal activity. They greeted me with the expression, "I never heard of anything like that." NJ defense attorney Michael Critchley summed it up during the longest trial in the history of US Courts, "We know who protects us from the criminals, but who protects us from the informants?"

Another familiar pattern of abuses by the FBI was to try to discredit one murder victim. They tried to portray her as a drug addict and a stripper so that no one would be concerned or sympathetic about her murder.

The FBI conducted a similar smear campaign against me. For 30 years they paid a woman (that I dated for three months when I was a law student) and her FBI informant husband to broadcast character assassination. They told everyone I met that I was a "retired drug dealer." That scared away any law abiding civilians and eliminated any sympathy for the 40 years of FBI and police abuses I survived.

It also attracted young drug dealers who believed the government lies. The FBI proceeded to arrest the young dealers who then were told that I worked for the police. It was a charming attempt to scare me into their witness protection (WITSEC) program. It was a way for the FBI to cover up 40 years of criminal abuses. And the woman and her husband? They told everyone they were my friends.

J. Edgar Hoover the homosexual founder of the FBI was known as the arsonist and the Fire Chief. That pattern of starting the abuses and making the victim seek help from the FBI perpetrators is well established and how they eliminate annoying citizens.

At the conclusion of this informative report, an FBI apologist-spokesman said that the FBI does not have the manpower to watch their informants. Huh? But they have enough manpower to watch law abiding citizens whose speech and behavior they dislike and to harass them 24/7 for 40 years? One FBI informant said to me, "I know how to get control of you." then proceeded to push me almost off my feet. Provocations is one way. But I knew what he was doing and walked away as I've done hundreds of times before.

The FBI eliminates freedom and the pursuit of happiness of individuals in the name of control. Is that why they were created? Corrupt politicians, police and the FBI protect each other from citizens. Annoying citizens become targets of all of the above. It is not just the Boston FBI office that runs murderous informants and protects them from the families of the victims. Hear all that deafening silence from the spineless politicians for reform?

[Link to CBS video broadcast on August 20, 2011]
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7377552n&tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesArea.0

Hannibal Unmasked
August 20, 2011 7:45 PM
CBS Nes 48 Hours Mystery
Three young women murdered and the hunt for a serial killer named Hannibal. In a broadcast dedicated to his memory, Harold Dow reports.