Las Vegas State Department of Public Health

Las Vegas State Department of Public Health

Background

The most recent statewide statistics made available at the time of this writing were calculated for 2006-07 data. Federal involvement in arrests in the state (i.e., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] involvement) rose from 176 in 2003 to 244 in 2006, an approximate 49 percent increase in just four years. Interestingly, the number of DEA arrests in 2007 decreased again to the 2003 level. During 2006, there were over 33,000 county and municipal arrests for alcohol-related crimes and over 1,000 Nevada Division of Investigation arrests for drug-related crimes. These data ...