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-Great Cultural Revolution
Crime-ridden Denver is now PAYING businesses to set up in its drug and alcohol-ravaged downtown district in bid to rejuvenate area - as drug-related crimes in the city are 26.8 percent up
2022-02-14
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Instead of cleaning out the criminals? Goody.
  • The Downtown Denver Partnership and the Department of Economic Development and announced the launch of the Pop-up Denver Program

  • The selected businesses could enjoy of three months of free rent and a $20,000 award to use for interior design and setup expenses and merchandising

  • Only five business will be given the vacant spaces on the intersection of 16th Street and Champa, one of the most concentrated pockets of drugs and crime

  • In 2021, more than 53 drug-related crimes were reported in the area, amid an overall crime surge in the Mile-High City

  • In Denver, robberies are up 75percent and drug-related crimes are up 26.8 percent in the year to date compared to the same period in 2022
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Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Ah, come on, don't you smell the potential 'grift' in this?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-14 17:05  

#4  Three months of free rent and then they start losing money? What about security? What about insurance? Who's gonna pay for that? I'd take a pass on this offer.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-02-14 11:41  

#3  So, they will bribe the business to come and then take a hands-off approach to the drug activity, street defecation and shoplifting. That's bound to work out well.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-14 08:51  

#2  Fuck Denver. I won't go into that shitty hellhole anymore and spend my money so why should a business?
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-02-14 08:04  

#1  In Denver, robberies are up 75percent and drug-related crimes are up 26.8 percent in the year to date compared to the same period in 2022

It's all the victimhood culture. They are not victims they are the perps, the predators. No matter what excuse you make, there are other citizen raise in the same economic and social conditions these perps were and they did not make the self destructive choices the perps made. They are not to be pitied. They exist solely for themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-14 07:27  

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