Police: Pot Shops Don't Increase Crime

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Medical marijuana dispensaries aren't attracting crime in Colorado Springs, the second Colorado city where police have concluded that pot shops don't increase crime.

The Gazette newspaper reports that Colorado Springs police have yet to find a correlation between the city's 175 or so dispensaries and increased crime. Denver police made a similar conclusion earlier this year.

The 41 criminal reports at marijuana businesses in Colorado Springs over 18 months compared to 797 robberies in businesses and houses in the same period. That rate isn't especially high compared to other businesses, police said.

Police spokesman Sgt. Darrin Abbink said there's not enough data to suggest marijuana businesses are attracting crime.
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[Beetwasher]

1. Of Course They Don't, The Whole Notion That They Would Was Just Silly

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[Blue Owl]

2. In fact they probably decrease crime overall

When you factor in the reduced gang/cartel involvement.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Dilaudid is in very high demand on the street.

Hence pharmacies are obviously robbed all the time and attract crime to neighborhoods and should be banned.