The relationship between illicit drug use and sales to crime has been studied for decades. However, the findings vary wildly and the correlation seems to be skewed depending on the opinions about drugs of the group conducting the study. When a law enforcement agency is providing the information they tend to include drug arrests in the number of drug related crimes, however, just because someone is using an illicit drug does not mean they are going to commit a crime. In fact the vast majority of people who use illicit drugs do not ever commit a violent crime (Phillips, 2012). Yet there is another statistic that states that people who sell or use illicit drugs are more likely to commit a crime than non users (US Dept of Justice, 1994). The studies
