" The Numbers         Value of the property that Nixon claimed in 1972 was stolen each year by heroin addicts: $2 billion                    . . . claimed by South Dakota senator George McGovern: $4.4 billion                    . . . claimed by Nixon administration drug treatment expert Robert DuPont: $6.3 billion                    . . . claimed by Illinois senator Charles Percy: $10 billion–$15 billion                    . . . claimed by a White House briefing book on drug abuse distributed to the press: $18 billion         Total value of all reported stolen property in the United States in 1972: $1.2 billion         Number of burglaries committed by heroin addicts each year, per Nixon administration claims: 365 million         Total number of burglaries committed in the United States in 1971: 1.8 million "

― Radley Balko , Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces