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This is a public topic in the grup: Missoula
Initiative #2:
# Recommends smarter spending on Missoula County law enforcement " to make adult marijuana offenses the lowest priority and instead focus first and foremost on violent crimes that threaten lives and property " like rapes, assaults, robberies and burglaries.
# Creates a citizen oversight committee " to report annually on how much time and taxpayer money was spent on adult marijuana offenses as compared to serious crimes that threaten community safety.
# Common sense, fiscally conservative law enforcement priorities to make Missoula County safer.
# No new expenses, no effect on federal funding " but more sensible priorities and more information about law enforcement spending will be available to taxpayers. In Seattle, where the Initiative 2 policy has been a requirement since 2003, no federal funding has been lost and adult marijuana arrests have declined 57%.
For more information and details on how you can help, visit:
http://www.responsiblecrimepolicy.org/
http://holotone.net/20...itiative-2/
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18 grupies have voted on one or more of the 3 answers. This topic was started by holotone
on November 2nd, 2006. Tags: crime, marijuana
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I asked my bro-in-law about this initiative as he is on the Missoula Police Dept. and he says it actually already is lowest priority. He contends that in many un-drug related arrest situations they find marijuana on suspects, and those arrests have, in the past, become (publicity-wise) all about the marijuana not the other criminal merits. I don't have a copy of the "priority handbook" so who knows what it actually says, but his perspective was one that I hadn't heard.