50 years in Colorado. The changes are monumental and not in a positive direction. Pretty much everything that had led to other states not being great places to live is occurring here. Sad, but it's seemingly what enough voters seem to think they wanted.

I just hope the wheels stay on this long enough for my wife and I to live out the rest of our lives.

It seems that what ever happens in a State centers around one individual County and sometimes two. If you aren't in one of those Counties you're either better off to some degree or totally screwed in other ways. Depends on what matters most to you.

That's probably why States like California and New York never change. A lot of the citizenry have a "Not my area so not my problem" attitude.

This was part of the Denver skyline in 1975. Not much there. Photo taken from the front door of my Mercedes repair shop on 20th St. The May D&F tower was 4 city blocks away and I could read the clock back then. Today it is nothing but buildings and more buildings. Denver used to be a small city with a small town feel back then.

Stu

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The research is clear - aggressive traffic enforcement leads to interdiction and suppression of general criminal activity. It is not so hard to avoid being stopped if one is cautious/law-abiding. The folklore about LE misconduct is mostly fabricated and to the extent it is occurring, is not near the level claimed by the snowflakes.

It is not a people pleasing business. It is a coercive compliance business. My county is doing the best we can with the crazy enactments from the Idiocracy of the I-5 Corridor.

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NHI, 10-8.

I'm posting this on Sunday the 19th. At some point on Tuesday the 14th some homeless folks parked in our parking lot. Management asked them to leave on the 15th and told security to get them off site on the 16th.

I don't know if they ever bothered to call CSPD but I noticed they were finally gone Saturday morning. I've seen several people move into the parking lot of local shopping centers and stay for weeks.

I said this before but when I was working I started a homeless camp at the South end of the Sportsman's Warehouse parking lot.

It was right next to an abandoned Toys R Us that Allied was contracted to check every night. When I found homeless people there I told them that Sportsman's Warehouse didn't have security and if they went there no one would mess with them. Within a week there were 8 or so cars parked together at the South end of the SW lot.

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Retired Career Security Guard

My favorite excuse that I heard a couple of times over 29 yrs was (after finding a lil baggie of dope in the "bingo pocket" of his blue-jeans...

"Oh, these aren't my pants Officer"

Traffic stops sometimes yield HUGE finds if you do it regularly. And as mentioned above if they know officers actively make pro-active stops they'll shy away from your jurisdiction because most have old beater cars (lots of probably cause to stop them), warrants, contraband, etc

K9’s are a huge plus from what I have seen. Amazing what those dogs are capable of.

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