Posted on 08/18/2020 5:44:06 AM PDT by real saxophonist
Denver City Council Votes Against ‘Peace Force’ Proposal
By Karen Morfitt
August 17, 2020
DENVER (CBS4) – Denver City Council voted to suspend a proposal that aims to to replace the Denver Police Department with a “peace force.” The 11-1 nay vote came during the council’s Monday night meeting.
The vote put the proposal on hold along with two other bills that would have limited power in other city offices.
Only the bill’s sponsor Councilwoman Candi Cedebaca voted in favor of the proposal to replace the police, had it passed it would have been once step closer to becoming a ballot measure this November.
The biggest concern raised by fellow council members was the timing, and that they felt there needed to be more time to deliver a thoughtful proposal.
“I want to always ensure that my constituents have the time to throuroughly understand what this means,” Council President Stacie Gilmore said when explaining her “no” vote.
In an interview ahead of the vote, CdeBaca said she would not be surprised if her colleagues voted against the idea, and that she believed it would be a decision left to the people.
“If this is doesn’t pass tonight it will be coming to the ballot sometime regardless because citizens can get things on the ballot,” she said.
Mayor Michael Hancock calls the idea “reckless and irresponsible.”
He says it won’t happen as long as he’s in office.
“There’s a right way, and an informed way to legislate. There are also destructive ways to abuse the legislative process, under the guise of advancing public conversation. And we owe the people of Denver better than that,” he said during a news conference about the coronavirus.
Under the bill, most officers in the peacekeeping service will not be armed or have arrest powers.
CdeBaca says it will not defund police, take away police officer’s weapons or eliminate law and code enforcement.
She says it will prioritize life preservation, alleviate the burden on officers “to be all things,” and “re-defines safety to address root causes of violence.”
And no, this is not satire. It was really proposed and voted on.
11-1. The left talks a good game until reality sets in.
As long as you don’t consider results they do fine.
“had it passed it would have been once step closer to becoming a ballot measure this November.”
This is why it got spiked 11-1. The rats know the power of using ballot props to boost turnout. This would have helped Trump had it been part of the Novemner ballot.
Denver Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca ::
For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3821455/posts
Candi CdeBaca won a runoff race against former Denver city council president Albus Brooks, and she did it by promising to implement communist policies “by any means necessary.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3756572/posts
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Sums up this ridiculous proposal.
Uh oh. Look for Denver to become a new BLM hotspot.
No dissent. Resistance is futile.
Thank you for your forced conformity.
Thanks for adding those. Thankfully, I’m not in Denver, but I see stuff about her from time to time. A very loud clown.
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen is more concerned about hair product than enforcing the law.
Thanks for those links.
My niece moved from Denver to Raleigh last year.
From insanity to relative sanity - although Raleigh has a Democrat Mayor who failed to impose a curfew during the riots and looting that Raleigh had earlier this year....allowing the rioters to destroy downtown businesses and loot them.
Unfortunately, my niece is a brainwashed 30 something who thinks BLM is a legitimate protest organization.
She would be happy to be back in Denver for that reason.
—to my surprise, Denver’s city leaders are more sane than those of Seattle and Portland-
The Robespierre want to be - Democrat socialist, claims that American capitalism is a failure and she’s excited to usher in the mass murdering communist agenda to replace it.
Candi CdeBaca also tried to hire her wife as a paid staff member.
Ugh.....
“Candi CdeBaca also tried to hire her wife as a paid staff member.’
Nothing says woke dysfunctionality more than having local leaders who are angry dykes. Chicongo, Seattle, now Denver. Where else? This is becoming a dhimocrat pattern.
Basically - it is sickening.....am just sayin’
She is a Marxist, self-described. The thing is, the left never stops until they get their way. This will be back.
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