How long do drugs and alcohol stay in your system?
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, labour economics
@PeterDunneMP The dangerous political opportunism of the marijuana decriminalisation lobby
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Preview of @NZQandA tomorrow https://t.co/svYBRTpUeR—
Peter Dunne (@PeterDunneMP) October 23, 2015
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne was onto something when he pointed out that a number of those supporting the legalisation of medicinal cannabis oils are using it as a stalking horse to legalise the marijuana leaf.
After reading the wonderful investigation in Saturday’s Dominion Post, it’s quite clear that cannabis oil has nothing to do with marijuana liberalisation.
The Associate Health Minister pointed out on television yesterday that there is already one cannabis oil derivative product approved by Medisafe and available on prescription. It is open to any pharmaceutical company to submit any other cannabis oil and marijuana derivative medicine for approval. There will be a fair hearing.
Medical marijuana is already legal in New Zealand. Few cannabis oil and marijuana leaf derivatives have been approved under the Medicines Act because few have shown to be an effective medication.
Those campaigned for a marijuana law reform would do a lot of sick people a service by saying that the campaign from better access and government funding of cannabis oil and other marijuana derivatives is a separate issue from which they stand apart. They should be not trying to follow in medicinal cannabis deregulation to liberalise recreational use of marijuana.
The issues have nothing to do with each other. Those who want marijuana liberalisation should stand on their own political feet.
US deaths (2013)
Tobacco 437k
Alcohol 29k
Opoids 16k
Heroin 8k
Cocaine 5k
Marijuana 0vox.com/2014/5/19/5727… http://t.co/o8yMDf7oE0—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 04, 2015
By infiltrating the medical marijuana lobby, their entryism slows any deregulation of the medicinal uses of cannabis oil and marijuana leaf because of slippery slope arguments.
A group of men and women gleefully demonstrate against Prohibition in 1932. http://t.co/686SwVHyC0—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) January 29, 2015
The marijuana decriminalisation lobby should be honest and say that it happens to be a coincidence that marijuana has other constituents that have medicinal uses. They want to decriminalise marijuana because they just want to get high.
@thecounted @radleybalko police shootings of blacks by threat level @PostGraphics
25 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA
The Washington Post wrote a wonderful investigative journalism article today on police shootings in the USA. The Washington Post started with a Wisconsin state trooper murdered in a shoot-out with an escaping bank robber.
The young state trooper was on his first solo patrol. State Trooper Trevor Casper was tailing a bank robber who suddenly turned his car back on him and shot repeatedly at the state trooper. Both died in the gun battle. The bank robber used armour piercing ammunition to pierce the body armour of the state trooper.
Source: Investigation: Police shootings – Washington Post.
I have augmented the graphics of the Washington Post by breaking it down for shooting of blacks, which is the main political controversy in the USA at the moment. In the chart above I broke down those with signs of mental illness only when they were attacking with a deadly weapon to avoid clutter in what is already a busy pie chart.
With your help, we've counted 928 people killed in the US by police this year. Send us tips @thecounted. https://t.co/s8ahmm6ZdK—
The Counted (@thecounted) October 23, 2015
The big secret again from the Washington Post database is don’t confront armed police with a weapon. Most people who are shot by police are either attacking police or brandishing a weapon.
Of 800 fatal shootings by police in 2015, 595 occurred after a range of violent crimes wapo.st/on-duty-under-… https://t.co/cYtbY2ohwP—
Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) October 24, 2015
Police officers who shoot an unarmed suspect at a safe distance are highly likely to be charged as I have previously argued. The Washington Post found that only 5% of the police shootings it reviewed for 2015 were suspicious in terms of police misconduct.
The truth about gun free zones
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: expressive voting, gun control, gun free zones, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, rational rationality, unintended consequences
Private police reduce crime by more
22 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, industrial organisation Tags: police, privatisation
UPenn private police do extremely well too, in another high crime area (Philly) law.utexas.edu/wp-content/upl… http://t.co/knWHw82EjU—
Ben Southwood (@bswud) July 28, 2015
The official salaries of African presidents
22 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: Africa, bribery and corruption
What African Presidents Make (Officially) http://t.co/X3F0j5DYHG—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 23, 2015
Why 788 people were shot dead by police so far this year
20 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, police, police shootings
The Washington Post also compiles a list of Americans shot dead by their police. The police hate speech host site, The Countered at The Guardian has some competition.
Source: Investigation: Police shootings – Washington Post.
The Washington Post counts 788 police shot dead by police. The Counted counts 922 because it includes deaths in custody, Taser deaths and people collapsing after a struggle. The Countered even included one poor sod who was lost at night-time and accidentally run over by the police cruiser searching for him. He wasn’t on the run. He was just run over at night.
Source: Investigation: Police shootings – Washington Post.
In common with The Counted, the Washington Post does not present the data on police shootings in the simple pie chart graphics to get a handle on how many times police shot armed criminals. That is why I am posting this pie chart today presenting this most basic information necessary for a balanced view.
Legalize All Drugs by Jeff Miron
16 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Jeff Morin, marijuana decriminalisation, war on drugs
Marijuana arrests by Presidential administration
14 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, marijuana decriminalisation, war on drugs
Marijuana arrests by Presidential administration http://t.co/pJPHVfNaas—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 04, 2015
The continued decline of violent crime in America
13 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, crime statistics, criminal deterrence, law and order
Violent crime fell again in 2014. So much for the "Ferguson effect."
washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/… http://t.co/h2a6b746qS—
Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) September 29, 2015
@thecounted US police killings of 217 blacks by cause, 1 Jan – 10 Oct 2015 @radleybalko
10 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA
@thecounted beats up on Georgia state police killings @radleybalko @Mark_J_Perry
10 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA
Georgia police shot one unarmed suspect this year. He was a crazy naked guy charging at police. Would you let a crazy naked guy get your gun?
Homicide rates of prime age adult males in the USA since 1980
05 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, politics - USA
In addition to the bump in black males homicide rates for those aged 25 to 34 during the crack cocaine epidemic, there is a bump for white homicide rates for 9/11 for both age brackets for white males. I have no information on why the black adult male homicide rate started to climb again in the early 2000s then fall in the mid-2000s for black males age that 25 to 34.
Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
@nzlabour @NZGreens @jamespeshaw cannot tell the crims from the injustice in the tough new Australian laws on deporting criminals
05 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand
Australia is introduced tough new deportation laws for noncitizens of bad character that sweep up New Zealanders who may have lived in Australia since childhood.
The new laws provide for automatic deportation of noncitizen criminals. The Immigration Minister used to decide if a criminal who was not an Australian resident was to be deported. Deportations are now automatic, although there are some exemptions and the opportunity for the Minister to intervene in special cases.
Anyone sentenced to more than a year in prison, or for a child-sex related offence automatically loses their visa and is detained to await deportation. This can include cumulative sentences over decades. Anyone spends a total of more one year in a prison is not a petty offender.
If you are a guest in another country, that is not a citizen, you do not go around messing up the place and making a nuisance of yourself. Sooner or later your host will lose patience and send you on your way.
There are injustices in these deportation laws because of a quirk of the New Zealand citizenship law. Some New Zealanders living in Australia cannot pass on their New Zealand citizenship to their children through decent. You cannot become an Australian citizen simply by being born there.
The injustice therefore is some of these New Zealanders who are Samoans whose children spend most of their lives in Australia will be deported back to Samoa because they have Samoan citizenship. They have neither New Zealand nor Australian citizenship.
It is one thing for a criminal to be deported from Australia to New Zealand – both are developed countries. It is another to be deported to a backward Pacific island.
If the New Zealand Labor Party and the New Zealand Greens would take time out for standing up for New Zealand criminals at home and abroad, they might be able to plead with greater success for a deal for these children of New Zealanders who find themselves in a quirky citizenship status. For these children of New Zealanders, their deportation is unusually harsh because they end up back in Samoa, not New Zealand.
The only person who is safe in a gun-free zone is the man with a gun
04 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation Tags: expressive voting, game theory, gun control, gun free zones, offsetting behaviour, rational ignorance, rational rationality, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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