Biking and walking along the lakefront. The feds say the victims were beaten to death with a hammer.1 dead, 1 hurt in Dan Ryan crash that threw them onto Red Line tracksA motorcycle hit the concrete median on southbound I-94 near 47th Street, authorities said.
There were grave concerns about an increase in the crime rate. That’s some of what we heard. DENVER — Since marijuana was legalized, we've heard claims that it brought a bunch of people who are homeless to Denver. It’s all kinds of crime that has decreased, and not even all dispensaries were able to be up and running in Denver since January 1Even Dr. Kevin A. Sabet, the former Obama drug policy advisor, Guess what America – legalizing marijuana in your state won’t make more thugs, or gangs, and we likely won’t see grandma’s getting their hand bags stolen more often or six year olds smoking weed behind the high school bleachers.
The Colorado Crime Stats website is a compilation of crime statistics submitted to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by Colorado law enforcement agencies through the national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.Per Colorado Revised Statute 24-33.5-412. And secondly, as they see that it’s not turned out to be the series of terrible events that they thought might happen with legalization.”Still, another study, conducted between 2012 and 2015 and published earlier this year in the Justice Quarterly journal, found that crime rates around Denver pot shops initially increased when recreational marijuana was legalized, but it then declined. In 2012, the states of Colorado and Washington became the first in the US to legalize cannabis for recreational use. To learn more or opt-out, read our New research out of Denver found that crime went down after marijuana was legalized.New research shows crime rates dropped substantially in areas with marijuana dispensaries, running counter to fears that pot shops drum up crime.The study, published this month in the journal of Regional Science and Urban Economics, analyzed crime data from Denver between January 2013 and December 2016.
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LAKEWOOD — Legal pot has not created a Colorado crime wave, but it’s still new, according to a state report released Friday, Oct. 26. Two people were thrown from the bike and landed on the Red Line tracks.Blues Brothers weed strain developed by Jim Belushi to go on sale at massive new Skokie shopThe actor-turned-marijuana connoisseur will drive a Bluesmobile to Greenhouse’s new dispensary near Old Orchard that opens Thursday.2 Cook County judges in ‘judge jail,’ under investigation, want 6 more years on the benchMauricio Araujo, Jackie Portman-Brown have been removed from their courtrooms while state judicial ethics authorities decide their fates. In terms of organized crime, the number of court filings charged with the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (C.R.S.18‐17.104) that were linked to some marijuana charge increased from 31 in 2012 to 119 in 2017. o The types of charges associated with COCCA filings that increased most were
(5), each Colorado law enforcement agency is required to submit their crime, arrest, stolen and recovered property data to the CBI.
According to David Mok-Lamme, one of the study’s co-authors, private guards tasked with protecting dispensaries’ cash and product might have a “positive impact on crime rates” — but there’s not enough available data to know for sure.Since the research shows that crime actually decreases “in a meaningful way,” Mok-Lamme said he hopes the study “causes people to rethink those thoughts they may have about where dispensaries choose to open.”Westchester police chief Steven Stelter, president of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, said he’s concerned about an overall rise in crime after recreational pot is legalized but doesn’t know whether crime rates will be affected specifically around dispensaries.
Interestingly, the rate of teen usage has gone down in Colorado since 2012-2013, when recreational use was legalized in the state.