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Denver to close park plagued with crime, drug use and feces
NY Post ^ | 09/08/2021 | Kenneth Garger

Posted on 09/08/2021 5:54:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Denver will temporarily shut down a park that has devolved into a haven for drug users, crime and human waste.

Civic Center Park and the adjacent areas will close beginning next Wednesday “until further notice” as the city cleans up and restores the green space.

“The current challenges within Civic Center Park have reached a tipping point, creating conditions that put the public’s health and safety at risk,” Mayor Michael Hancock said in a statement.

“This is the people’s park and we are taking steps so that everyone can once again feel safe and welcomed there,” the mayor said.

Officials said over the past “several months” conditions at the park have deteriorated.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; denver; drugs; park
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To: EEGator

“I hear Boise Idaho is going down the toilet as well.”

Yeah, they have a woke woman Democrat mayor running, I mean ruining, the place, it’s a university town and Californians are moving there in droves.


41 posted on 09/08/2021 6:54:56 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

they’ll spend millions restoring the park then reopen it to the bums, misfits, and criminals, and it will once again become a hell hole.


42 posted on 09/08/2021 6:55:16 AM PDT by euram
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even as recently as 2010, I found Denver to be a very nice city. It’s really gone to hell in the last 5 years.


43 posted on 09/08/2021 6:55:56 AM PDT by dixie1202
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To: aquila48

Biggest mistakes in US history:

1- Slavery, and not returning people to their native lands

2- Allowing women to vote and hold office

3- Not treating our southern border like the DMZ


44 posted on 09/08/2021 6:59:53 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: laconic

Take a look at this story from Seattle. They have since “swept” the encampment but they will be back, IMHO.

It seems like this problem exploded. Too many burnt out and current addicts make up the majority of the ones I encounter. It just so happens that Seattle has decriminalized ALL DRUGS including meth and heroin for personal use, so has Denver, SF, LA and Portland.

I don’t see a correlation between the two, do you? /sarc

Cloward-Piven performing as designed.

https://mynorthwest.com/3065732/rantz-king-county-sheriff-orders-staff-work-from-home-king-county-courthouse/


45 posted on 09/08/2021 7:08:51 AM PDT by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dems can’t do the difficult but necessary big boy work that’s required of them, so they just shut it all down. The only plus side to this is that our local Antifa children will have one less place to congregate for their weed meetings. By the way, this is where Michelle Malkin was assaulted by those pussies at her rally. Next time she tries this, I hope we have enough lead time to get our own show of force there.


46 posted on 09/08/2021 7:10:37 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Da Coyote

Vancouver, BC? They have government supported heroin injection sites there. I heard a council person now wants to provide “safe” government approved Heroin to be distributed free at these sites. Too much Fentanyl don’t have know.

Vancouver here we come??? Be careful.


47 posted on 09/08/2021 7:13:15 AM PDT by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hancock is a disgrace.


48 posted on 09/08/2021 7:14:13 AM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; george76

Hancock is shocked, I tell you, shocked that the park in front of the capital is a sh*thole of drugs and junkie/alcoholics in tents.


49 posted on 09/08/2021 7:21:27 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: gundog

Might be our last chance (before we all go to hell).


50 posted on 09/08/2021 7:30:12 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: NativeSon

It saves money on fertilizer having a ready supply of blood, guts and feces.

A temporary shut down isn’t going to fix anything.


51 posted on 09/08/2021 8:02:31 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the peoples park turned into the peoples sty since it’s obvious they are all pigs...


52 posted on 09/08/2021 8:08:56 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

100%


53 posted on 09/08/2021 8:19:18 AM PDT by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Denver was a dangerous town when we lived there back in 1953.


54 posted on 09/08/2021 8:37:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. 4 hours! Now back in FB jail-again!)
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To: cgbg
Democrats turn great cities into third world s^%$holes whether drugs are legalized or not...

Drug legalization is one of their tools for doing so. All you need to do is read up on the situation in China after the Opium Wars of the 19th century. We are reliving that situation as we speak.
55 posted on 09/08/2021 8:40:38 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: bigfootbob

Too late


56 posted on 09/08/2021 10:31:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: LouAvul

Colorado used to be a favorite place to visit, mostly because of their great western scenery. None of it showing in E. Colorado, though. Denver gradually became worse & worse. Now, I see no point in even crossing the state line. It’s a scary place to visit now. I live in an adjoining state.


57 posted on 09/08/2021 10:44:35 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Clean it up, plant new grass and bushes, paint everything, and polish everything so it really shines. Then hold a Grand Reopening party.

Stand back and watch the happy young families strolling through the park in their finest clothes under the sunshine and birds chirping, happy kids playing on the playground, the sounds of barbecues and picnics.

All will be grand again! And the druggies and bums will have learned their lesson and won’t ever return. Nope, they will move on.


58 posted on 09/09/2021 6:43:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.”)
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To: thefactor

“… because they are so terrified of being called racist or elitist”

There’s that. But cities are scared to death of the lawsuits that flood in when they clamp down on bums and druggies as part of an effort to restore civic order. There are many groups that still sue to prevent the infringement of the bums’ civil liberties. These groups still believe that “homelessness isn’t a crime.”

Homelessness, bums, druggies, etc are just one element of the bigger communist plot to destroy America from within. It cannot be a mere coincidence that every single one of our traditional institutions is under six decades of simultaneous withering assault.


59 posted on 09/09/2021 6:53:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.”)
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