Policy Center: Drug Policy
Fabricating Arizona’s “Immigrant Crime Wave”
submitted on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 09:16 by Mike A. MalesFox News Channel’s Bill O'Reilly (among others, including prominent Republicans such as Sarah Palin) has repeatedly blamed Arizona’s “500,000 illegal aliens” for (in O’Reilly’s words) bringing a crime wave in Arizona, particularly Phoenix, that is “overwhelming… dangerous… through the roof,” creating social chaos” so “desperate” and “dangerous,” that the state
Marijuana: To Legalize or Not to Legalize
submitted on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:45 by Dinky Manek Enty
Today is April 20, 2010, also known as 4/20. Many consider today an unofficial holiday: National Marijuana Day.
Since today is 4/20, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) thought no other day would be more appropriate to educate people on the fiscal and legal implications of legalizing marijuana in California.
Drug Abuse Is Now California’s Leading Cause of Premature Death
submitted on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 11:05 by Mike A. MalesIn 1980, before California and the United States embarked on a massive “War on Drugs” to arrest and imprison rising tens of thousands of drug users, a total of 1,480 residents died from overdoses or chronic abuse of illicit drugs. That constituted 7.7% of the state’s death toll from all external causes (that is, accidents, suicides, murders, and violent deaths of undetermined intent).
The Myth of an “Immigrant Crime Wave, Part II”
submitted on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 13:47 by Mike A. MalesMy earlier blog focused on long-term California statistics showing Latinos, the most immigration-impacted ethnicity, actually show bigger declines in arrests over the last three decades than do populations dominated by long-term residents, such as Whites.
The Myth of an “Immigrant Crime Wave”
submitted on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 16:23 by Mike A. MalesAmerican Conservative publisher Ron Unz has always taken a refreshingly wonkish approach to public policy.
War on Drugs Update
submitted on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 15:12 by Randall G. SheldenIt’s time for another one of my end of the year drug war updates. I haven’t done this in a while, so it is overdue.
San Francisco: The "Selma" of Drug Policing
submitted on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 13:38 by Mike A. Males, ...In any given year over the last two decades, San Francisco Police Department arrests for simple possession of marijuana have varied by up to 300% over other years. After a 1999 peak (946 arrests), numbers plunged to 357 in 2007, then nearly doubled to 609 in 2008. Why? Who knows?
New California Crime Stats: The Good-Bad News
submitted on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 23:00 by Mike A. Males, ...Just released Criminal Justice Statistics Center 2008 crime numbers and Center for Health Statistics 2007 death figures deal a double whammy to three decades of California’s criminal justice failure. But first, the ironies.
Now the hard part of prison reform...
submitted on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 23:00 by Mike A. Males, ...Last month, CJCJ released a detailed study documenting the feasibility, benefits, and cost savings of closing California’s juvenile prison system and transferring its dwindling roster of inmates to county detention facilities.
Race and the Drug War, Part II
submitted on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...After more than 20 years, even with the heightened awareness of the impact of the drug war on blacks and other minorities, Congress still does nothing. The drug war’s impact has reached directly into minority neighborhoods with devastating results. A recent book by Todd Clear documents the impact of mass incarceration (brought about mostly by the drug war) on these communities. He shows