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Denver’s crime continues to rise in contrast to the statewide crime rate. The Common Sense Institute, a free-market think tank and policy analysis group, published a study on Denver crime ... The study tracks how Denver’s crime rates spiked over the pandemic and have continued to rise. It suggests that the Mile High’s problem is unique to Denver, rather than Denver being an example of a statewide crime problem, though it does not include a comparison of other cities’ crime rates. ... Denver’s average monthly rate of crimes per 1,000 people reached a high last year of 9.01 – a...

“We are exhausted” with crime and “need results,” National Supermarket Association’s Nelson Eusebio fumes to The Post, explaining why 70 mostly Latino city grocers are donating $1,000 apiece to Rep. Lee Zeldin’s campaign for governor. SNIP The group — whose stores include Foodtown, Key Food, C-Town and other supermarkets — have generally voted for Democrats, Eusebio explained. Yet now they’re desperate to end the city’s shoplifting pandemic and other crimes that have plagued their businesses and city streets. They want crooks held “accountable,” not freed to rob again soon after their arrest, as now under New York’s lunatic cashless-bail laws....

SAN FRANCISCO — From her apartment at the foot of the celebrated zigzags of Lombard Street, Judith Calson has twice peered out her window as thieves smashed their way into cars and snatched whatever they could. She has seen foreign tourists cry after cash and passports were stolen. She shudders when she recounts the story of the Thai tourist who was shot because he resisted thieves taking his camera. And that is her tally from the last year alone. “I never thought of this area as a high-crime neighborhood,” Ms. Calson, a retired photographer, said of this leafy part of...