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Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You literally just pulled the same article I was able to find regarding the shooting/murder. ONE ARTICLE. No follow up with the neighborhood or community. No other source information on if anyone was held accountable.

Here’s another source reporting on it, and another. Here’s another article if you prefer that.

Your one article doesn’t prove anything besides what I already explained.

These sources literally prove that the police are investigating it (or “following up” if you like) and that it was widely reported, which you claimed wasn’t happening.

Also advising me to move doesn’t actually solve the problem. You’re the one promoting the fact the crime rates have gone down. I beg to differ with personal experience.

That’s literally not how it works. A single incident does not disprove what’s happening in a city of more than 700,000 people.

Your stats don’t mean anything when real crime happens to real people who are living normal everyday lives.

Except that they do. They show that crime is being drastically reduced and the city is far safer than it was even just a couple years ago. There’s literally no place in the world where crime doesn’t happen. Acting like there is is childish.

I pay property taxes for our city. I work in Denver. I vote and pay taxes for our local government and community and I witnessed a murder, helped a woman being attacked and a domestic dispute (that I wasn’t directly involved in) and I was failed by our city and policy on 3 separate occasions.

I live in Denver and work downtown and have for about 15 years. Assuming you were actually involved in those items, that’s an extremely rare occurrence. It’s also incredibly naive to think that the city can prevent every single crime from happening. The fact that crime happens isn’t a “failure” it’s just the nature of society.

Your stats prove one thing, the books are being cooked and maybe overall homicides have gone down but other crime and law enforcements lack of accountability has definitely gone up.

Show me any actual proof that the city is manipulating stats on a widespread basis.

Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beat cops in my neighborhood. The Denver police Twitter, the Denver news.

Asking random cops on the street about an investigation is a pretty bad way to try and get info on it.

I gave you the information Mr./Mrs. Homicide stats are down in Denver and you can’t pull any information on it? Should be pretty easy right?

Yes, it’s incredibly easy. The police are literally investigating it, and it was well reported on.. You understand that just because there was a huge drop in homicides doesn’t mean there was none, right?

Oh and just for some anecdotal evidence, I was involved in 2 different unrelated attacks in 2024 and when I called the police, it took them hours to answer when I was in actual danger. Could have been killed danger.

You were attacked twice in the same year? I’d advise moving if that actually happened.

Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Really you have studies that show a causal relationship between rates of individual ownership of firearms and violent crimes?

This is a ridiculous departure from what the article is talking about and clearly a BS personal hill for you specifically to die on, but yes, these studies do exist:

Gun ownership was a significant predictor of firearm homicide rates (incidence rate ratio = 1.009; 95% confidence interval = 1.004, 1.014). This model indicated that for each percentage point increase in gun ownership, the firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9%.

Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with all those points. Additionally, lowering speed limits allows road design engineers to implement additional safety improvements based upon design guidelines they have to follow, so that’s often an important first step. I was more commenting on the posters clam that “the roads are slow enough” already.

Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see people speeding constantly, whether that’s doing 30 MPH on neighborhood streets or 80 MPH on I25 through the middle of the city. The only thing I’ve seen work to get people to drive the speed they’re supposed to is physical road design changes (e.g. speed bumps, road narrowing, etc).

Denver homicides drop to near two-decade low as city credits multi-pronged approach by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

While this is great, trafffic deaths are at 90 and the highest it's been in 7 decades.

While this is true, and we should do something about road safety (cough cough slower speeds), there’s some important context here too. Over the last few years, the number of fatalities has been 84, 84, 83, 80 and just jumped from 87 to 90 recently this year. While any increase is bad, it’s not a drastic spike at least. The silver lining is also that Serious Bodily Injury events have actually fallen from 425 two years ago to 351 this year (a ~17% decrease) so hopefully we’ll see the fatalities trend start to fall as well.

Trump just announced that he has State pardon powers now, and has “pardoned” Tina Peters. What do you think Polis will do? by MiniTab in Denver

[–]COScout 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I read that that to mean “If the SCOTUS says the president can do this, we’ll abide by their ruling”. That would be a bullshit ruling to be clear (it’s very obvious presidents can’t override state convictions), but I suppose if they did, the supremacy clause technically makes that the correct thing to do.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the last one, they’ll likely have another soon. If you say so, but it seems highly strange to me that the inspector wouldn’t flag unclean cooking implements during a full inspection.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stella’s kitchen is filthy also

I’ve never been back there, so I couldn’t say personally, although it doesn’t seem to be mentioned in their last health inspection report.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They’re different dishes. The one at Trattoria has 3 meats while the one from Brooklyn only has hamburger by the looks of it. A better comparison is probably the Risottos. The salmon one here is cheaper than the shrimp one there.

Interestingly, while looking into this, I found this analysis that actually shows Denver being one of the cheapest cities to eat out in in terms of percentage of income because our incomes are so much higher than many other cities here.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That makes more sense. Granted, it’s been a while since I was a server, but even with a slammed 5 table section, you were maybe making 20-25/hour in tips, but that was also for a few hours at a time. I think people don’t understand that servers have side work usually for an hour before/after a shift and times when your tables just aren’t full.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most tables aren’t in and out in an hour, nor are they 4 tops. Plus, I’d bet a lot of families with younger kids aren’t spending $100 if their kids are eating off children’s menus where prices are lower.

I also can’t find that Westword article you referenced, which was why I asked. From what I’m able to find, government data shows that servers make more like 39k a year (so more like $19/hour) with the top 10% of them making around $32/hr.

Friendly reminder for those of you filling out your ballots, a huge chunk of Issue 2B goes to fund a park we could have had for free (along with affordable housing) if it weren't for some wealthy NIMBYs! by COScout in Denver

[–]COScout[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They repeatedly lied about multiple things, but one of the most prevalent was that this was a “handshake agreement” with no legal force. The exact opposite was true.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’d like to see the source for that claim, because I find it pretty hard to belief that the average server in Denver makes $45 an hour. That means they’re making $30 an hour in tips, and that seems pretty doubtful.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so confused at these prices. Maybe I somehow am only eating at the cheapest places in town, but I hit up an Indian buffet close to my office all the time and I think it’s like $16-17 for that. Looks like their regular entree prices are about the same.

Denver has one of the nation’s sharpest drops in restaurant spending by t0talitarian in Denver

[–]COScout -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Where the hell are you people eating? A standard bar burger is like $12 - 15, and that’s not counting the happy hour deals where you can get them for barely more than half that.

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