Posted on 12/24/2017 10:10:16 AM PST by walford
After decriminalizing defecating on sidewalks, the Chamber of Commerce will probably rename Denver as the “Mile High Pile City.”
No Board of Health? That’s how diseases spread. Now every time I think of Denver I will see visions of poop and other body fluids on the sidewalk. People are required to dispose of dog poop and Denver is letting humans defecate any where they please.
What’s disturbing as well is that they also decriminalized camping out on private land. So now you can go out to get your morning paper, but it’s not there, because the person camping on your front lawn is reading it while defecating on the sidewalk in front of your house.
I always end with it, but I’m saying it now: INSANITY!
Denver City Council had an unanimous vote Monday night to decriminalize the offense of people committing certain low-level crimes like lying in a public right-of-way, urinating in public and panhandling.
City leaders and immigrant rights advocates argued the changes will protect Denver’s immigrant community from facing unintended consequences.
“Many times it becomes a deportable offense if you’ve been convicted of even a minor ordinance violation that’s punishable by a year in jail,” Mark Silverstein said, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Before the vote, all violations of the Denver municipal code were punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a fine of up to $999. The new ordinance creates a brand new sentencing category that carries out different penalties. Most municipal offenses will carry a maximum of 300 days in jail and up to a $999 fine. The new ordinance creates “Class 1” and “Class 2” offenses.
Class 2 offenses, which carry a maximum 60-day jail sentence and no fine.
Sitting or lying in the public right-of-way
Unauthorized camping on public or private property prohibited
Urinating or defecating in public
Panhandling
Curfews and closures
Storage and loading
Prohibitions
Solicitation on or near street or highway
The “class 2” offenses as so-called “quality of life” offenses that often impact the homeless community.
That’s the latest from the progressive city that seeks to ensure it “will not sacrifice” its “values or bend to a broken immigration system.”
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) and some of the city officials explained that the new ordinances are designed to protect immigrants, legal and illegal, from “unintended consequences.”
These consequences were fines and longer jail terms, as has been customary in most places for violating the behavioral norms of civilized American society.
Mark Silverstein, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, explains the real reason behind the changes: “Many times it becomes a deportable offense if you’ve been convicted of even a minor ordinance violation that’s punishable by a year in jail.”
Denver is considering declaring itself a sanctuary city in defiance of President Trump’s policies on illegal immigrants. But by redefining lawbreaking and its possible penalties, these new Denver laws accomplish much of the same without risking loss of federal funds.
“Usually the defendants are very poverty stricken, maybe even homeless,” Mark Silverstein said.
When Colorado decriminalized marijuana, that was one thing. Whether or not I agree with that decision, I understand the reasoning behind it. But this?
“Last night, City Council voted to approve major sentencing reform and joined my Administration in sending a clear message that we will not sacrifice our values or bend to a broken immigration system.” Denver Mayor Michael Hancock
I am sorry, but even a poverty stricken person is free to use a public restroom. In fact, many private businesses will even allow it. How many times have you gone to a Starbucks and seen a homeless person occupy one of the sofas? I can count at least ten times that I’ve witnessed it, right off the top of my head.
If a person does not have the cognition to use a public facility, then he or she is likely under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or is mentally ill, and therefore should not be on the streets to begin with.
Denver used to be a great clean city. Now that the liberals have a stranglehold on it, and it will literally go into the crapper. Pun intended.
Yes, again…INSANITY!
Thank the ACLU and other sleazy lawyers for legally classifying involuntary mental health institutionalization as the equivalent of jail. Hence, if one is not committing a crime-- or does not pose an immediate threat to self and others -- people who are unable to function are thrown out into the streets to fend for themselves.
Rather than having their days managed by professionals, getting treatment, living in a clean, safe environment, they are outside in all weather, begging, scavenging and stealing. They are also spreading dysentary, cholera and hepatitis as they use the streets as latrines.
Multnomah County jail in Oregon is reportedly the largest mental health facility in the state. Hence, one does not get mental health treatment w/o getting a criminal record first.
Such is the 'compassion' of the Hard Left.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/12/denver-okays-public-pooping/
"...Mark Silverstein, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, explains the real reason behind the changes: 'Many times it becomes a deportable offense if you’ve been convicted of even a minor ordinance violation that’s punishable by a year in jail.'
Denver is considering declaring itself a sanctuary city in defiance of President Trump’s policies on illegal immigrants. But by redefining lawbreaking and its possible penalties, these new Denver laws accomplish much of the same without risking loss of federal funds."
Hence, essentially the deal is, crimes that are more typically perpetrated by illegals are now being decriminalized. The result of this all that is associated with tolerating non-citizens who are in this country illegally, increased crime and welfare dependency. That creates jobs for lawyers and social workers -- all win for the Hard Left.
Colorado needs more liberals! Not enough to utterly destroy it yet.
“After decriminalizing defecating on sidewalks, the Chamber of Commerce will probably rename Denver as the “Mile High Pile City.””
It is not that often that a news article begins with such a horribly written sentence.
Says volumes about what the Denver City Council thinks of their city. And the voters. People get the government they deserve.
http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-hepatitis-outbreaks-20171006-htmlstory.html
“...[hepatitis A] is transmitted from feces to mouth, so unsanitary conditions make it more likely to spread. The city of San Diego has installed dozens of handwashing stations [oh, yea, street-people are gonna use those] and begun cleaning streets with bleach-spiked water in recent weeks.
...county health workers have vaccinated 57,000 people in the county who are either homeless, drug users or people in close contact with either group.
‘The general population — if you’re not in one of those specific risk groups — is at very low risk, and we’re not recommending vaccinations’...”
But you had better not say anything that might offend the two digit IQ college marshmallow major smoking pot on the corner.
Denver is succeeding in its quest to become the prime liberal septic tank in the west. Heck, the’re hot on the tail of San Gaysisco.
I have a public urination ticket from Denver from the mid 1990s. I was drunk and stumbling out of a bar. Took a piss in an alley behind a trash dumpster and somehow got busted by a plainclothed police officer, who I then decided to mouth off to.
Wonder if I can get it expunged?
I wonder what Denver's leaders would say about that.
Look for an increase in hepatitis, SD for example.
The headline is grossly misleading. It is not legal to defecate and urinate on sidewalks. They lowered the penalty from a year in jail to 60 days in jail.
“Let’s all go to Denver, amigos!
We’ll get free shirt and give them free shirt on their sidewalks!”
I think they were right.
“Before the vote, all violations of the Denver municipal code were punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a fine of up to $999.”
So, before the change of the ordinance, the tax payers of Denver had to pay the costs of keeping a person in jail for a year for peeing on the sidewalk?
Get Out of Denver - Bob Seger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiapLNsB5fE
Poorly written article.
So Denver is moving to a ‘get out of jail free’ card for all illegal aliens and striving, rather intentionally, to be a real 3rd world cesspool. As noted by someone else in this thread, “Mile High Poop” city.
Was in Denver last summer. Entire downtown smelled like a toilet.
No.
It is still against the law to pee on the sidewalk in Denver.
If I am passing through Denver it is okay for me to stopped and drop a load on one of their sidewalks. And then urinate on it.
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