City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has gotten the Rand Corporation to take down a study that found a big jump in crime around marijuana dispensaries that had closed as a result of a city crackdown in June 2010. According to the LA Times, Trutanich's team (including former Planning Commission President Jane Usher) has been vigorously pushing back on the study, calling the results "highly suspect and unreliable." Warren Robak, a spokesman for Rand, explained the think tank's decision to pull the report from its website: "As we've begun to take a look at the report, we decided it's best to remove it from circulation until that review is complete." [LA Times]
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