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Crime stats in CO after pot legalization

Cerpin Taxt

Cerpin Taxt

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I'm not putting this in P&N because I think it is just a case of one person being unbelievably ignorant, but I'm wondering if there is some place where he might have been fed this misinformation. I've been searching for some site or blog or something that could even approach claiming the cited figures and I can't find anything.

Anyone seen claims like this elsewhere?

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Details of the news story are here:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/mar/10/man-shot-outside-spokane-marijuana-dispensary/

Moved from OT to P&N
-ViRGE
 
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DesiPower said:
oh look someone lied on the internet, run for the hills, the world is ending...
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Well, I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's just parroting something he got from another source.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ~ Robert Hanlon
 
KlokWyze said:
I don't base my beliefs on facebook posts. I don't get this thread. Are you trolling yourself?
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You didn't do very well in school, did you?

Cerpin Taxt said:
I've been searching for some site or blog or something that could even approach claiming the cited figures and I can't find anything.

Anyone seen claims like this elsewhere?
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It's possible he made it up all on his own. He would be the source if this was the case, and your search can end now.
 
Most recently he has suggested the stats came from "WASPC, KOMO-5, look em up."

1.) I looked and I can't find shit.
2.) WTF is the WASPC (supposedly) doing reporting CO crime stats?

(WASPC is the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs)
 
Greenman said:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This should be considered BS until the state presents the numbers.
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have heard this arguement before

it is wrong

the correct version should be usually but not necessarily always require

not saying it is applicable in this situation
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Most recently he has suggested the stats came from "WASPC, KOMO-5, look em up."

1.) I looked and I can't find shit.
2.) WTF is the WASPC (supposedly) doing reporting CO crime stats?

(WASPC is the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs)
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Also, it takes awhile for all the precincts and reporting agencies to compile stats and roll them up to the state level, and then for the state to compile the stats.
 
Random marijuana prohibitionist makes ridiculous claims on internet... His source? Probably a chain email or his own imagination. Standard FUD, the only reason cannabis was ever made illegal.

It's really too early to say, but from what I can gather Colorado's crime rate has gone nowhere but down since legalization. That's obvious, given that MJ arrests have fallen through the floor. Now that MJ is Colorado legal, it's highly likely that prohibitionists will be utterly discredited by events. Well, more like non-events, given the results so far.

The real story? We legalized pot, and then nothing happened. Nothing bad enough to warrant going back, anyway.
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Most recently he has suggested the stats came from "WASPC, KOMO-5, look em up."

1.) I looked and I can't find shit.
2.) WTF is the WASPC (supposedly) doing reporting CO crime stats?

(WASPC is the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs)
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Tell him to provide link or STFU.

As an aside, $2M in tax revenue in CO from 1 month. If legalized at the Federal level that translates to possibly $1.2B/year :hmm:
 
With a plethora of medical and now recreational cannabis shops less than a mile from my house, I can happily say that there has been no noticeable change in my neighborhood.
 
We have had pot shops on every corner for several years. Also most cities like Denver do not prosecute for small amounts of pot either, even before the change in the law. I really see no difference, no reefer madness.
 
legalization probably isnt more safe or more dangerous and it will never be universally known as to whether people are safer with it being legal.

be that as it is, i am very happy the cocks never caught me when i used to toke bongs... i stopped while i was way ahead. one time i was smoking a joint sitting on a bench in some guy's yard and he called the cocks, but i evaded their sorry asses by going through backyards. that was before i became an anarcho-confederalist of course.
 
norseamd said:
have heard this arguement before

it is wrong

the correct version should be usually but not necessarily always require

not saying it is applicable in this situation
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It's not wrong, you just don't agree with it.

I found bigfoot
I have an alien probe in my brain
I have a four dollar device that makes my car get 100mpg

Will you accept any of those at face value? If so, I'd like you to contact my bridge sales department.
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Most recently he has suggested the stats came from "WASPC, KOMO-5, look em up."

1.) I looked and I can't find shit.
2.) WTF is the WASPC (supposedly) doing reporting CO crime stats?

(WASPC is the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs)
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who is this guy? how about somebody out him for spreading bullshit and if WASPC is posting these numbers they better back them up with facts.

how many liquor stores get robbed every night across the country?
 
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Paid trolls are known to spread misinformation about gun violence data and other stuff, there is a huge internet information battle in this arena as well as other topics like climate change hoax.
 
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