You would think since legalizing marijuana Colorado's crime rate would go down....but

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Crime rate in Colorado increases much faster than rest of the country

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Crime rates dropped or remained static in many of the nation’s 30 largest cities last year, but in Colorado the crime rate per 100,000 people spiked by 3.4 percent, fueled by a rise in auto thefts, rape, murder and robbery.

Colorado’s crime-rate increase in 2016 was more than 11 times the 0.3 percent average increase reported in the 30 largest cities in the nation, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

Last year’s number of homicides — 189 — marked an 9.9 percent increase over the 172 in 2015, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation report “2016 Crime in Colorado.” Nearly one in three homicides were committed in Denver.

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Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said the passage of the felony drunken driving law by Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2015 also triggered an increase in felony crimes that are counted in the annual summary of crime statistics. Boulder County alone has had between 60 and 100 felony drunken driving cases since the law’s passage, Garnett said.

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The number of rapes increased 7.2 percent — from 3,275 in 2015 to 3,512 in 2016 — the CBI report says. The increase of rapes per 100,000 residents was 5 percent.

Robberies in Colorado increased 5.9 percent to 3,518, and the number of aggravated assaults jumped 8.3 percent to 10,682, according to the CBI report.

The number of homicides across the state was the highest since 2004, according to records. It also represents a 47 percent increase over the 129 homicides in 2010.

There were 57 murders in Denver in 2016, according to the report. That represented 30 percent of all murders in Colorado.

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