The numbers of drug dealers arrested in Wisconsin have gone down in the past decade, despite growing problems like overdose deaths. State Justice Department figures show that statewide arrests for drug sales have gone from around four-thousand in 2006 to less than three-thousand a decade later, while arrests for drug possession jumped from about 46-hundred to close to eight-thousand in the 10-year period. According to Gannett’s U-S-A Today Wisconsin Network, local police say drug traffickers are getting smarter at escaping arrest. Some officials blame staff shortages in their own departments. Attorney General Brad Schimel says his agency is getting four new drug investigators and 420-thousand dollars to fight drug trafficking. Schimel says it’s not enough, but it will still do a lot of good.
Report: Despite Growing Drug Problems, Dealer Arrests Down
Sep 26, 2017 | 9:46 PM
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