Posted on 08/12/2018 6:10:27 AM PDT by george76
On August 9, Denver experienced its first triple homicide since the summer of 2016, when a drug deal went bad in Park Hill. On Thursday, three bodies were discovered near the RTD light-rail station on South Broadway near the I-25 overpass. And according to the Denver Police Department, there's an added dimension to these latest murders: The three victims were all homeless.
The DPD has yet to announce the names of the three victims, their causes of death or any suspects in the crime. But the gravity of the murders and the fact that the victims were homeless has many Denverites on edge.
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The location of the murders, just hundreds of feet from one of RTD's most significant bus and light-rail terminals, had us wondering how commuters were reacting to the news.
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By noon Friday, August 10, the DPD had already completed its crime-scene investigation; the area just north of the RTD park-and-ride lots where the three bodies were found the day before was no longer surrounded by police tape or crawling with DPD detectives.
But just a minute walk away, plenty of commuters waited for buses and trains at the RTD station.
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In the first place, if you build it, they will come.
Secondly, if you ignore the problem of the homeless druggies and mental cases, you’ll get more of them. If you tie the hands of Law Enforcement you can double that, again.
Then, you’ll reap what you’ve sewn and EVERYONE shares EQUALLY in a sh*tty Quality of Life.
Works every time it’s tried.
I was living in Denver in ‘99......Thought it and Colorado one of the most awesome places, with the surrounding mountain peaks and change in season....
I so loved it....
...but that was almost 20 years ago....
...and I mourn the changes....( not to the good)
I recently met a lady who took her kids and moved from Denver
She was worried about the free wheeling pot .......so sad
Take a good look at San Francisco, once a beautiful city, and now becoming a filthy dump. Conservatives warned that welfare handouts to the shiftless would do more harm than good. They were right, and they were ignored.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Enough of the reefer madness! Allowing folks to choose whether they want to smoke weed or drink booze is not what is causing Denver to go downhill. It’s an endless parade of liberal do gooders who cause more harm than good by allowing so many to freeload off of us honest taxpaying citizens. We moved out of downtown in 2007 into the burbs and life is pretty freaking awesome out here in Colorado. We just need these dumbass Californians (which I’m a native of) to realize that it snows 300 days of the year out here.
A curious fact about the homeless in Denver: Sometimes a homeless person or persons will set up camp and will stay there for months with no police intervention and other times the homeless person will be cleaned off of an area rather quickly. The bus station park and ride locations are prime areas for break-ins of cars. The more goods and services that are given to the bums—the more bums will move to the areas of the benefits.
Congrats to your move from California to Downtown Denver and then to the burbs. Colorado is in fact incredible. The amusing fact about Colorado is that it has 300 days per year of bright sunshine and it is usually just the mountains that get major accumulations of snow. Lots of the local sports talk radio stations will say to not come to Co. because of the cold and snow just to try to keep any more people from coming here. We like it fine just how it is. And you know Detroit is actually a very nice place. You would be very disappointed if you moved to Denver. I’ve heard good things about (fill in the blank) any other state.
We lived in Denver way back in 1953. Even then dad kept his car doors locked while driving. He had a pistol stolen from his glove box one night after leaving it unlocked.
***and to provide Donner Party rations ***
More likely food for Alfred Packer.
Some of the theaters in the performing arts complex have metal detectors. The symphony may go that route which means no more concerts for moi. They say they are doing it to protect their patrons which is BS and moves the target to the lines outside. the covert hall is safer than RTD to and from the concert.
But but but, legalized weed was supposed to put an end to this drug war and we would achieve nirvana.
We Idahoans have a clever way of diverting many vagrants and/or Californians to Colorado.
Pot is illegal here (even small amounts).
Yeah, but they're kinda stringy. (So I've heard. :-) )
I’ve known the Denver area on and off for 67 years and was last in Denver 13 years ago for a funeral. I have a brother in Evergreen and know how to avoid Denver when visiting them. I will probably never set foot in Denver again. It was a nice place at one time. Liberals/Progressives ruin everything they touch.
I lived in various parts of Denver metro from ‘76-2009. I thought it was the last good large city left in the USA. It’s like all the rest now.
In the 80’s people said, “You need to live west of Sheridan” (locals will know what I’m talking about). By the 90’s it was, “live west of Kipling”. Now there’s not much escape anywhere in the metro area.
Now I live west of the Divide, which is working out great.
These shootings aren’t over legal pot, though pot has certainly caused problems.
Yep. It’s incredibly easy to destroy a good thing through Socialist Policies. We see it all over America.
It needs to stop...because people LEAVE but they bring the cancer WITH them. :(
“I was living in Denver in ‘99......Thought it and Colorado one of the most awesome places, with the surrounding mountain peaks and change in season....
I so loved it....
...but that was almost 20 years ago....
...and I mourn the changes....( not to the good)”
Let’s face it, it isn’t confined to a few places around our country, in reality, to one degree or another, it’s pervasive, and it’s everywhere. They say you can’t “go back,” but when you can’t remember what “back” was, it’s the end of the line. And unless we, as a COUNTRY do something collectively, the $hit people will end up winning. Then the only way to recover will be CW II.
“Allowing folks to choose whether they want to smoke weed or drink booze is not what is causing Denver to go downhill.”
You really believe that? Oh sure, the Liberal “do gooders” are doing all that you say, but they are also the one’s who drove the MJ initative. I think MJ should be decriminalized, and I further believe that it has a real place in drug therapy ( my wife uses CBD for pain management ant it works). But that’s not really what “legalizing MJ is all about, it’s about letting people get stoned, and if you think that that is a good thing, you should not be surprised when Denver continues to “go downhill,” because it’s a constituent of that falling!
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