@KyleClark Hey Kyle, drug overdoses in Denver are up over 100% from where they were eight years ago when they changed the laws. And by the way, I mean progressives. I don’t know. It seems like there might be a story there, but I know this race is super tight and really important.
@DWildcard303007 Amazing what happens when progressive enabled drug addicts and criminals to have immunity while the taxpayers subsidize their lifestyle of riding around on scooters for free and stealing from us
@KyleClark Yet this guy can lie with impunity including by saying he solved homelessness more than anyone in the history of the world, while we raise funds for the gazebo that burned down at City Park bc we don't want to admit who actually did it and have no money bc we spend it all on NGOs
‼️Call or email your Denver City Council representative TODAY. Tell them to reject Bill 26-0328, the “update” to municipal criminal offenses and to put forward a new, clean bill that strictly complies only with the Camp decision.
On Monday, a bill that vastly exceeds the Camp decision will be introduced.
In particular, it significantly lowers max penalties for Municipal criminal offenses, removing an essential legal means to persuade offenders to clean up their act or spend time in jail.
The bill authors think max sentences for these crimes should be reduced so the offenders don’t lose their public benefits or risk immigration trouble. They do not care about Denver’s citizens and crime victims.
Not only does the Bill lower max sentences beyond Camp, it creates a Working Group to review the criminal code (Chapter 38) that is fraught with problems that should concern every citizen:
‼️Per the ordinance, the Working Group must consider “disparate impact” in its deliberations. This collectivist framing rejects individual responsibility for behavior and instead advances the notion that something shouldn’t be a crime if the % of people arrested for it exceeds a group identity’s population proportion.
For example, if 75% of people arrested or convicted for the crime of petty theft have an income less that $15,000, but are only 15% of Denver’s population, then the Working Group must “Identify and attempt to prevent disparate impacts of Denver’s criminal prosecutions and penalties based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, income, and other protected status;”
How can the Working Group “prevent” this disparate impact? Since the methodology requires group analysis rather than addressing prosecution for individual behavior, either petty theft can no longer be a crime, or exceptions for a crime must be made for members of certain groups but not others until the proportions represent the population.
This is nuts. It washes away individual responsibility for our choices and behavior. It builds into our criminal code notions of “systemic” oppression that are not real. We will no longer be equal under the law.
‼️The Working Group must include specific types of nonprofit activist organizations (full list pictured).
Missing from the list? Any organizations representing the regular citizen who wants safe and clean streets. Who wants legal mechanisms in place to hold people accountable for behavior that disrupts and erodes our neighborhoods and public spaces. Who want crimes to be prosecuted regardless of the identity of the criminal!
‼️The bill does not specify how Council and the Mayor will select the community organizations who will serve on the Working Group. There are no provisions for nominations or applications. The absence of such provisions is a strong indicator that the bill proponents already know who they want serving on the working group.
There are also no provisions requiring the Working Group to seek input from the people of Denver nor our business community.
Links to Council Contact info and the Bill 👇
🚨 MASS OVERDOSE event in Permanent Supportive Housing last night around 11:30 PM: FIVE people reportedly overdosed inside Renaissance West End Flats at 1490 Zenobia Street run by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. @COCoalition
☠️ One was pronounced DEAD ON ARRIVAL (DOA).
This is a mass overdose event with multiple victims in one location, in a building funded and operated as “supportive” housing for chronically “homeless” drug addicts.
💰Taxpayers funded this project heavily. This ~$17 million project (opened in 2012) was built with massive public subsidies.
- Neighborhood Stabilization (City $$)
- HOME grants (federal HUD $$)
- HUD Supportive Housing grants
- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
The 50 permanent supportive units run on ongoing project-based vouchers and subsidies…YOUR TAX DOLLARS directly covering rent and services to keep this population housed INDEFINITELY without any work or sobriety requirements.
Deaths continue at alarming rates inside permanent supportive housing. Despite the promises, Housing First models have failed to curb the fentanyl crisis and overdoses remain rampant.
Meanwhile, NGO executives are cashing in on the crisis. Britta Fisher, CEO of CCH, received $335,000 in base compensation last year (plus other pay), according to the organization’s Form 990 filings.
@KyleClark@BreakTheChainsM Nothing to report on when it comes to the progressives who actually, unlike the republicans you cover nonstop, have power and have destroyed the state.
Next, on 9 news, Tina Peters!
@cory_gaines Pretty crazy how we can’t get any actual reporters or journalist in denver to cover this. Oh wait, is that because they’re all progressives like Kyle Clark?
@GenXJenDen@cory_gaines I know @KyleClark is busy with the colorado republicans but gee, just maybe there’s a story here. Nah. We must be more concerned with Tina peters and the guy who has less than a 1% chance of winning the governors race. I get it. Plus, we can’t make the progressives look bad.
@KyleClark You do understand that this is a constitutional power, right? It’s hilarious how you guys capitulate depending on which way the political winds blow.
@CBSNewsColorado Point in time system in the coldest month of the year and the city knows when it’s coming. This is all deception but the liberals eat up whatever warms their hearts so long as they don’t live in 5 points, anywhere near east Colfax , or off of n. downing
@maryannathomps3@GenXJenDen That’s the grift. They’re not really interested in fixing housing or making it more affordable. It’s just a way to get Rich while pretending to care. Have you really not noticed how many fucking drug addicts and criminals have come to (denver) in the last few years?
@EponaVox@GenXJenDen@DenverChannel They think they’re too smart to be gaslit and instead believe the progressive cries of Republicans taking away their rights while they literally are doing that here
@Concerned_In_CO@GenXJenDen@dnvr_is_burning Why do you think the progressive’s quietly renamed it supportive housing? Look it up… It is permanent housing for drug addicts and criminals who have records and addictions that constitute “disability” under Colorado liberal laws
@GenXJenDen And people really think Kelly Clark at nine news is an honest journalist and not a progressive puppet. Meanwhile, he’s on story 7286 of Tina peters but has never shit on any progressives