Police unions are also uniformly opposed to legalization, as it will reduce the need for police by definition if the hundreds of thousands of "crimes" per year

Police unions are also uniformly opposed to legalization, as it will reduce the need for police by definition if the hundreds of thousands of "crimes" per year vanish into smoke. Fewer officers, less money and less power. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana (ACLU).