I think in the last 15 years that I have been on the job the number of burglaries, larceny, muggings, ID theft, and fraud, that were not to buy drugs of one kind or another, was maybe 5%. Total. It's not just drugs and who uses them, it's how they get the money to buy them.
My last burglary case was a heroin addict who kicked in the front door of a house on my patrol. I cover 2 towns, and over a hundred square miles, sadly I didn't stop him before he broke in. He took a mother of pearl decorated jewelry box, another plain box, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Threw the boxes in a dumpster, and pawned the stuff. He got $180 for over $4,000 worth of jewelry. The owner was a 89 year old man who brought the mother of pearl box back from India during WWII. He literally broke down and cried when he saw the box was taken. He had owned it for 65 years. I didn't have the heart to tell him we should legalize drugs.
Not really directly related to the topic at hand, it just drives me nuts when people give me the old legalize it line. Good luck with that.