Nearly 1.5 Million Americans Arrested For Victimless Crimes In 2008
The new FBI Crime Report is out and reveals some interesting information:
- Prostitution and “commercialized vice” — 75,004 arrests
- Gambling — 9,811 arrests
- Drug Possession — 1,401,188 arrests
- Heroin or Cocaine Possession — 342,210 arrests
- Marijuana — 754,224 arrests
- Synthetic drugs (i.e., crystal meth) — 56,184 arrests
- Other “dangerous” drugs — 248,570
Which leaves us with a grand total of 1,486,003 Americans arrested in 2008 for victimless crimes.
H/T: Coyote Blog and Radley Balko
