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!
Denver’s Chamber of Commerce needs its collective head examined.
Oh..I won’t give up until my last breath...and neither will he.
MAGA!
OMG..seriously?
Denver is quickly becoming the San Francisco of the Rockies.
I changed planes there once...about 30 years ago.Didn't see anything extremely untoward at the airport.
“Denver’s Chamber of Commerce needs its collective head examined.”
Denver’s Chamber of Commerce does not make laws.
The article is made of the same material as a turd left on a Denver sidewalk.
Let me add why the Founding Fathers were so brilliant to enact the 10th Amendment and create the federal system.
We in the other states can watch what happens when weed is legalized, street people are allowed to relieve themselves on the street and illegal aliens are permitted to roam free, robbing, raping, murdering, as well as sponging off the taxpayers.
This is why the Left hates States Rights. They do not want us to be able to vote with our feet when taxes are too high, government is too big — and non-citizens are coddled.
I posted this as a warning. Hopefully the President and his Administration are watching this also, and will close the loophole being exploited by Leftists in Colorado to protect illegal aliens — at the expense of their sane, law-abiding, taxpaying citizenry.
There are more people in India that crap in the streets than there are people in the United States.
As soon as liberals take over, they crap on themselves.
But I'll bet they grease the wheels. The Chamber of Commerce needs its freaking head examined.
In 1960 Lima Peru I witnessed the unimaginably poor doing this there. My family that lives there tells me that Peru has progressed beyond the point where such unhealthy behavior is tolerated now.
“People get the government they deserve.”
No one deserves a government as wrong-headed and wrong-hearted as the ones the left devises.
What should we do? What *can* we do? Decent people are not murderers, so we can’t assassinate them. If we try to organize an opposition, three quarters of those who join will be feds.
The demonrats must be driven out of government, the media, and the schools.
How?
So, in CO they reduced the Penalty for Public Peeing and Pooping. Big whoop.
In CA you can INTENTIONALLY give somebody AIDS through unprotected Sex and it was reduced from a Felony to a Misdemeanor effective January 1, 2018.
You know, like getting a Speeding Ticket.
“But I’ll bet they grease the wheels. The Chamber of Commerce needs its freaking head examined.”
It is still against the law to pee or poop on a Denver sidewalk.
Instead of a year in jail, now an offender gets 60 days.
How many years in jail would you as a tax payer like to pay for to send one person to jail for peeing on a sidewalk?
Ugh!
The solution is to make ANY contact with the police or Courts deportable offenses.
That will incentivize the illegals who are here to behave themselves — and for us to be rid of those who cannot or will not.
Damn it. You know, once we were peasants, settlers with NOTHING...you know those rotten European descended monsters the left keeps bawling about......we built OUTHOUSES! Septic systems. Where is the modesty? I’m a very open person, not shy...but c’mon!
Bunch of barbarians.
Just following SanFran.
“The solution is to make ANY contact with the police or Courts deportable offenses.”
That’s the current law, but it is not always enforced by local,state and federal law agencies.
However, I’m not sure how you plan to distinguish a pile of poop on a sidewalk by a citizen from a pile of poop on a sidewalk by an illegal alien.
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