North Dakota’s Oil Boom Has Created a Crime Problem

Combine the Mexican Cartels pushing meth and heroin with drifters looking for work and you a perfect crime storm brewing in North Dakota. All this has come on them due to the oil boom in the state:

Last year, a study by officials in Montana and North Dakota found that crime had risen by 32 percent since 2005 in communities at the center of the boom. In Watford City, N.D., where mile-long chains of tractor-trailers stack up at the town’s main traffic light, arrests increased 565 percent during that time. In Roosevelt County in Montana, arrests were up 855 percent, and the sheriff, Freedom Crawford, said his jail was so full that he was ticketing and releasing offenders for minor crimes like disorderly conduct.

North Dakota – Come for the oil, stay because you’ve been sentenced to 3 years in prison!

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