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Does legal weed make police more effective?
« on: July 20, 2018, 12:57:41 am »
Does legal weed make police more effective?
By Christopher Ingraham
July 18 at 10:05 AM

Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit” to police departments' ability to solve other types of crime, according to researchers at Washington State University.

“Our models show no negative effects of legalization and, instead, indicate that crime clearance rates for at least some types of crime are increasing faster in states that legalized than in those that did not,” the authors write in a study published in the journal Police Quarterly.

A crime is typically considered “cleared” if authorities have identified and arrested a suspect and referred him to the judicial system for prosecution. The Washington State study examined clearance rates for crimes in Colorado and Washington from 2010 through 2015, using monthly FBI data.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/18/does-legal-weed-make-police-more-effective
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Re: Does legal weed make police more effective?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2018, 12:57:53 am »
Seems to free up police for more important work.
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Re: Does legal weed make police more effective?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2018, 01:01:15 am »
Quote from: Suppressed on July 20, 2018, 12:57:53 am
Seems to free up police for more important work.

Right.   :whistle:
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Re: Does legal weed make police more effective?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2018, 01:18:03 am »
Quote from: Suppressed on July 20, 2018, 12:57:53 am
Seems to free up police for more important work.

Taken steps further as California has downgraded theft under $950 to a misdemeanor and a citation, and marijuana legalization, nobody gets busted at all, crime solution stats rock, and the streets are full of feces, and the parks are full of homeless.

But crime stats rock, when nothing is a crime. Maybe the cops are stoned too.

The only thing left, is for AG Sessions to bat clean up, pounce on the weed industry from start to finish.
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Re: Does legal weed make police more effective?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2018, 02:30:41 am »
“Our models show no negative effects of legalization
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Wow, I would have considered the increase in marijuana DUI's to be a negative, but that's just me.
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Re: Does legal weed make police more effective?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2018, 02:40:41 am »
Does legal weed make police more effective?

Depends upon when they smoked it last, I'd reckon...
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