Meth addiction and crime almost run hand in hand. Chronic usage of meth causes serious addiction and an urge to have more of the drug. Hence, the addict does anything and everything to get the supplies of his habit. Robberies, burglary, theft, car stealing, murder, identification thieves etc are numerous crimes that are associated with crystal methamphetamine. The police always see that these criminals are in some way involved with meth. These people make their living by choosing crime as the path. The entire life of these people are revolving around either manufacturing and supplying meth or abusing meth. Meth drives them insane and addicted and pushes them to commit even murder of innocent people for money.

Surveys reveal that if meth is hidden or taken away from the world, the rate of crime will drop considerably. A large amount of criminal activities in the modern world is due to meth abuse and other related factors. However, the exact numerical of meth crime is not known but the guess is right. All charges for arrest and theft are not recorded with the police. Generally suspects of various crimes are found with meth and they are in paranoia. They often confess that their criminal activities are somehow because of meth.

There are instances when an elderly couple who are killed by their son who is a meth addict and is nearly 55 years of age. This happened in the year 2004 in Reno. The bodies of this couple were left in the garage. There are various instances of raping women and terrorizing them to fetch money from them. It was just last year when a man of 24 years of age shot a police office at Reno on his face. This was because the police officer has forced him to go to the jail for stealing something.