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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Crime Spike Linked To Prop 36: According to an article from the Ventura County Star by Kathleen Wilson, arrests for drug and property crimes have increased since California voters adopted Proposition 36, eight years ago. The measure initiated a sweeping program to send nonviolent drug offenders into treatment instead of jail. A report issued earlier this week by researchers at UCLA shows that felony drug arrests between 2001 and 2005 increased by 30 percent and misdemeanor drug arrests by 23 percent after declining in the previous four years. Proposition 36 was sold to the voters as a more sensible way to treat first- and second-time drug offenders rather than putting them in jail. But many of the clients turned out to be people with 10 or more years of addiction to narcotics, not small-time marijuana users, drug researchers said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).