Enforcement
Arrests
and seizures
Arrests
Federal,
State, and local agencies share responsibility
for enforcing the Nation's drug laws, although
most arrests are made by State and local authorities.
In 2000 the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) estimated that there
were 1,579,566 State and local arrests for drug
abuse violations in the United States.
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on the chart to view the data.
Source: FBI, Uniform
Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually.
According
to the UCR, drug abuse violations are defined
as State and/or local offenses relating to the
unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing,
and making of narcotic drugs including opium or
cocaine and their derivatives, marijuana, synthetic
narcotics, and dangerous nonnarcotic drugs such
as barbiturates.
More
than four-fifths of drug law violation arrests
are for possession violations.
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on the chart to view the data.
Source:
FBI, Uniform
Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually.
The number of arrests for drug abuse violations
increased slightly from 1999 to 2000 for both
adults and juveniles. Juveniles are defined as
persons under age 18. Adults are defined as persons
age 18 or older. In 1987 drug arrests were 7.4%
of the total of all arrests reported to the FBI;
by 2000, drug arrests had risen to 11.3% of all
arrests.
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on the chart to view the data.
Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually.
In
2000, according to the UCR, law enforcement agencies
nationwide made an estimated 14 million arrests
for all criminal infractions except traffic violations.
Among the specific categories, the highest arrest
counts were --
- 1.6
million for drug abuse violations;
- approximately
1.5 million for driving under the influence;
- 1.3
million for simple assaults; and
-
1.2 million for larceny-thefts.
Drug abuse violations in 2000 accounted for an
estimated 11% of all arrests.
Estimated
totals of top 7 arrest offenses, United States,
2000
| |
|
Type
of arrest |
|
Number of arrests* |
|
|
Total
arrests* |
|
13,980,300 |
|
Drug
abuse violations |
|
1,579,600 |
|
Driving
under the influence |
|
1,471,300 |
|
Simple
assaults |
|
1,312,200 |
|
Larceny/theft
|
|
1,166,400 |
|
Liquor
laws |
|
683,100 |
|
Disorderly conduct |
|
638,700 |
|
Drunkenness
|
|
637,600 |
|
|
*Arrest totals are based on all reporting
agencies and estimates for unreported areas.
Source:
FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually.
|
From 1987 to 2000 more drug arrests involved heroin
or cocaine than other types of drugs. In 2000
the number of arrests involving marijuana exceeded
that for other types of drugs.
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on the chart to view the data.
Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually.
The total number of arrests for drug violations
declined slightly from 1998 to 2000.
Arrests
for drug abuse violations, by geographic region,
2000
| |
|
Percent
of arrests for drug abuse violations |
| |
|
|
| Type
of violations |
U.S.
total |
|
Northeast
|
Midwest |
South
|
West |
|
| |
Total*
|
100.0 |
%
|
100.0 |
%
|
100.0 |
%
|
100.0 |
%
|
100.0 |
%
|
| Sale/manufacture*
| 19.0 |
%
|
26.0 |
%
|
19.5 |
%
|
17.0 |
%
|
17.0 |
%
|
| |
Heroin
or cocaine |
9.3 |
|
18.1 |
|
5.0 |
|
9.1 |
|
6.7 |
|
| |
Marijuana
|
5.6 |
|
6.3 |
|
9.3 |
|
4.8 |
|
4.7 |
|
| |
Synthetic
or manufactured drugs |
1.1 |
|
0.7 |
|
0.7 |
|
2.0 |
|
0.8 |
|
| |
Other
dangerous nonnarcotic drugs |
3.0 |
|
1.0 |
|
4.4 |
|
1.2 |
|
4.9 |
|
| Possession*
| 81.0 |
%
|
74.0 |
%
|
80.5 |
%
|
83.0 |
%
|
83.0 |
%
|
| |
Heroin
or cocaine |
24.2 |
|
26.5 |
|
14.0 |
|
24.2 |
|
26.8 |
|
| |
Marijuana
|
40.9 |
|
42.0 |
|
52.1 |
|
50.5 |
|
28.5 |
|
| |
Synthetic
or manufactured drugs |
2.2 |
|
1.5 |
|
1.8 |
|
2.7 |
|
2.3 |
|
| |
Other
dangerous nonnarcotic drugs |
13.6 |
|
3.9 |
|
12.6 |
|
5.5 |
|
25.5 |
|
*Because of rounding, percentages may not
add to total.
Source:
FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime
in the United States, annually. |
Drug
seizures
Many
Federal agencies are involved in removal of illicit
drugs from the market. The Federal-wide Drug Seizure
System (FDSS) reflects the combined drug seizure
efforts of the DEA, FBI, U.S. Customs Service,
and U.S. Border Patrol within the jurisdiction
of the United States, as well as maritime seizures
by the U.S. Coast Guard. FDSS eliminates duplicate
reporting of a seizure involving more than one
Federal agency.
Source:
Office of National Drug Control Policy, as reported
in
Fact Sheet: Drug Data Summary, NCJ
172873, April 1999.
Drug
seizures, as reported in the FDSS for fiscal year
1997 through 2000.
| |
|
Seizures
in pounds |
| |
|
|
|
Drug
|
FY
1997 |
FY
1998 |
FY
1999 |
FY
2000 |
|
| |
Total |
1,796,863 |
2,047,558 |
2,615,636 |
2,856,462 |
|
Heroin |
3,121 |
3,499 |
2,732 |
3,119 |
|
Cocaine |
252,329 |
266,029 |
292,234 |
234,863 |
|
Marijuana
|
1,488,362 |
1,777,434 |
2,318,992 |
2,594,492 |
|
Hashish
|
53,051 |
596 |
1,678 |
23,988 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note: Table constructed by staff of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, Federal-wide Drug
Seizure System (FDSS), Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics, 2000,
NCJ 190251, October 2001. |
According
to the Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) --
- the
Federal government seized 14,560 illegal drug
laboratories between fiscal years 1975 and 2000
- in
fiscal year 2000, of the 1,901 labs seized,
1,869 (98%) manufactured methamphetamines
- in
2000 the DEA program for eradicating domestic
marijuana resulted in the destruction of 2.8
million plants in 40,929 plots, 9,439 arrests,
3,463 weapons seized, and assets seized valued
at $19.3 million.
Source:
Data provided by U.S. Department of Justice,
Drug Enforcement Administration as reported
in the BJS, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics 2000, NCJ 190251, October
2001.
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