What looks like a typical weekend in the River North Arts District feels like anything but that to folks who work near Larimer and 29th streets, where a shooting happened Wednesday night.
This is part is 5 points! Called"the East Side" by those that lived here and pushed out by gentrification and by those of us that still live here! This is still the hood!
Five points and the neighborhoods just east used to be pretty rough. Despite gentrification, there is enough of that nearby element that hasn't yet been priced out just hanging on to those old ways. It has mostly been pushed out further east, but it is not going quietly.
Your use of gentrification, curious, it was city of Denver who transformed the area from rundown, high crime, to help the residents. It is not an affluent area still, only infused with new businesses due to this transformation.
I talked to a Denver cop who says Denver police are discouraged because they arrest these guys only to have the DA release them the next day, so what is the point. Denver is also short staffed. Nobody wants to be a Denver cop. Can you blame them?
I talked to a Denver cop who says Denver police are discouraged because they arrest these guys only to have the DA release them the next day, so what is the point. Denver is also short staffed. Nobody wants to be a Denver cop. Can you blame them?
I was just at the lariat lounge and I was saying how I felt like there were murderers walking around on the streets, and I felt more like I was doing security than enjoying myself because I was having to watch everybody on the sidewalk who is creeping by who was a potential Violator.
