Amusing Statistic

We don't know where they dug this stat up, but we laughed out loud at it:

• The war on drugs may not be over in Chicago, but it’s in retreat.
  
  In 2015, total drug-related arrests dropped to the lowest level in three decades, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city crime data found.
  
  And the rate of drug busts plunged more sharply in the first four months of 2016. Chicago Police are on pace to make 13,000 narcotics arrests by year’s end. That would be the smallest annual tally since 1973, two years after President Richard Nixon declared a national war on drugs.

And of course, there is blame and credit. First, the Cannabis ANOV's are performing spectacularly well, to there's the credit. And the police are being fetal, so there's the blame. Then you have that "diversion" thingie where addicts are offered a shot at rehab. So how many hundreds of addicts have been placed in this program?

• He also said police have recently joined the city’s efforts to get drug users into treatment instead of locking them up.
  
  Last month, the first two people were diverted into treatment programs after they were swept up in a sting on a heroin operation on the West Side. Another sting is planned this month and police hope to place a larger number of addicts in treatment.

Two? Wow. Thank goodness this is taking hold so aggressively.

How about this theory? Cops are fed up with a system that releases first time offenders, repeat felons, doubts their word, has absolutely nothing resembling "truth in sentencing" and combined with the all out war on law and order, have backed off the entire dope trade.