Apr
30
If my county allows stores to sell alcohol and bars open up how will it affect the crime rate?
April 30th, 2010 posted by
admin
can anything positive come of go from “dry” too “wet”
I live in Alabama, USA but if your are from a differant country feel free to answer it’s just I wanted to know the facts so I can stop my county from voting us wet.
Meilien says:
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:30 am
Well, in the UK they already had a significant level of alcohol fueled crime (Mostly, violent crime and vandalism). The government believed that this crime was caused by restrictive drinking hours that were causing people to drink a lot in a short period of time and that by increasing the hours that people could drink they would drink the same amount over a longer period and they would stagger their drinking.
What actually happened was a complete disaster. People drunk at the same rate but for much longer therefore they actually consumer more. There was a significant increase in alcohol related violence and other crimes. There was also an increase in youth drinking and youth binge drinking. The entire scheme was a disaster.
To make matters worse the average time that alcohol related crime happened was pushed back from late night to early in the morning. This created difficulties with police shifts.