Trends in Heroin/Cocaine Arrests (1970 -2004)

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports

Year	Total Arrests	Drug Law Arrests	Drug Arrests as % of Total	Heroin/Cocaine Arrests	% of Drug Law Arrests	% of All Arrests
1970	8,117,700	415,600	5.1	130,083	31.3	1.6
1971	8,639,700	492,000	5.7	140,712	28.6	1.6
1972	8,712,400	527,400	6.1	112,864	21.4	1.3
1973	9,027,700	628,900	7.0	88,046	14.0	1.0
1974	9,055,800	642,100	7.1	101,452	15.8	1.1
1975	9,273,600	601,400	6.5	78,783	13.1	0.8
1976	9,608,500	609,500	6.3	60,341	9.9	0.6
1977	10,189,900	642,700	6.3	84,836	13.2	0.8
1978	10,271,000	628,700	6.1	82,988	13.2	0.8
1979	10,205,800	558,600	5.5	68,149	12.2	0.7
1980	10,441,000	580,900	5.6	70,289	12.1	0.7
1981	10,840,000	559,900	5.2	72,227	12.9	0.7
1982	12,136,400	676,000	5.6	115,596	17.1	1.0
1983	11,700,500	661,400	5.7	152,783	23.1	1.3
1984	11,564,000	708,400	6.1	184,892	26.1	1.6
1985	11,945,200	811,400	6.8	239,363	29.5	2.0
1986	12,487,500	824,100	6.6	336,233	40.8	2.7
1987	12,711,600	937,400	7.4	427,454	45.6	3.4
1988	13,812,300	1,155,200	8.4	599,549	51.9	4.3
1989	14,340,900	1,361,700	9.5	732,595	53.8	5.1
1990	14,195,100	1,089,500	7.7	591,599	54.3	4.2
1991	14,211,900	1,010,000	7.1	558,530	55.3	3.9
1992	14,075,100	1,066,400	7.6	565,192	53.0	4.0
1993	14,036,300	1,126,300	8.0	566,529	50.3	4.0
1994	14,648,700	1,351,400	9.2	501,369	37.1	3.4
1995	15,119,800	1,476,100	9.8	627,343	42.5	4.1
1996	15,168,100	1,506,200	9.9	599,468	39.8	4.0
1997	15,284,300	1,583,600	10.4	565,345	35.7	3.7
1998	14,528,300	1,559,100	10.7	570,631	36.6	3.9
1999	14,031,070	1,557,100	11.1	527,857	33.9	3.8
2000	13,980,297	1,579,566	11.3	529,155	33.5	3.8
2001	13,699,254	1,586,902	11.6	520,504	32.8	3.8
2002	13,741,438	1,538,813	11.2	463,183	30.1	3.4
2003	13,639,479	1,678,192	12.3	508,492	30.3	3.7
2004	14,004,327	1,745,712	12.5	530,696	30.4	3.8
Grand Totals:	429,444,965	35,478,185	8.3	12,240,267	34.5	2.9