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Over half of the overall increase comes from a huge increase in "Disorderly Conduct/Disturbing the Peace" (> 6x), and "Criminal Trespass" (> 3x).

Those two categories plus a similar growth buried in "All Other Offenses" accounts for essentially all of the growth in reported crimes.

There is probably a story there somewhere.



I agree, and I suspect that it's likely "a cop stops $unsavory_character and wants to charge him with something; as his possession of marijuana is no longer illegal, he must choose something more contrived."


Drug violations are also up slightly and the increase from the three named groups is about double the previous year's drug violations.




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