I live in Denver. We don't go downtown anymore. The violence, blatant drug use and overwhelming smell of urine makes an already difficult situation worse.
If Mayor Johnston could point to another city where his proposals for the homeless are working, then I'd be less skeptical. His plan for micro-communities is another boondoggle for the homeless-nonprofit-industrial complex. How come we keep spending more money and the situation gets worse? The Rodeway Inn shelter just closed, throwing 71 residents into the street, so even existing shelters can't make a go of it. There's a homeless encampment next to Woodbury Library near my home. Two weeks ago, a fight among the homeless broke out and somebody starting shooting a gun. The encampment is still there.
Mike Johnson is a blind follower of Portland style woke religion. He is a fool, and a kuck for homeless criminals. Denver deserves him though since they voted for him.
My hometown has turned to shyte!! Makes me so depressed. My little brother and I used to go downtown Denver by bus to walk around and see the sights and it was safe way back then.
We need to take our city back from all this. I grew up there from 1994 to 2003. Age 9 to 18, so i went to high school there. It's simple, treat it as a drug problem, etc. Stop giving grants to the "non-profits" that basically just turn it into nice personal paychecks and do a half as job. We need to start talking about all the issues, ridiculously high rents etc. Rent controls do work for example, despite business and economics professors telling us the opposite in college. And maybe even run for office ourselves. Not just maybe, definitely we need to do that. I honestly didn't care much about Denver when growing up there, its why i left for college. But reading some of this breaks my heart. I grew up in the north side so hearing that these addicts are even next to Woodbury: enough of this
To constantly refer to this problem, as *'Homelessness,'* implies that putting a roof over the heads of these people will solve the problem. Call it what it is: an invasion of dangerous street rats, drug addicts, and the mentally ill. Some need to go to jail. Some need to go to rehab. Some need to be cared for in institutions. Unless you see it for what it is, you'll never fix it.
@@rcas350pilot8 agreed. And that should never have happened. Would you vote for someone who is prepared to correct it? I would too. But I don't think it's going to be the Democrats.
@@seymorefact4333well they can either live in your house, you can get them housing or they can live in the vehicles. Those are the options, you have to choose one.
@BigBadJerryRogers for the mentally ill and druggies... put them on komodo Island and let them be. They have no purpose! There family's and friends don't care enough to house and feed them. WHY SHOULD I and others.
I can 100% tell you a major business that houses staff in downtown Denver will be moving out. That’s about 200 people year round that will not be filling hotel rooms and or buying food at businesses in the area. The streets all smell like urine, poop, trash and needles on the ground, homeless harassing and assaulting the public hourly, homeless screaming in the street at night so loud you can hear it on the 6th floor, and so on. I stayed downtown for a month and saw all of this including people stealing at the Target multiple times. I walked to the British Bulldog and it was rough. Guy peeing on the sidewalk during middle of day. You can’t even enjoy the public grass areas because they all have to be fenced off so homeless don’t camp there. These people need to be forcefully housed in a medical facility. It’s not heartless, it’s common sense. They are a daily threat to them selves no others, they are committing crimes daily, they are ruining the lives of local businesses and individuals just trying to walk down a street. Time to stop playing games and actually govern by making public areas safe and functional.
A key issue here is that once the problem gets to this point, the city no longer has the revenue to really solve it. The cost to house them in a medical facility would be staggering.
I lived in downtown Denver on 17th street from Oct of 1990 to May of 1992. What an incredible change. There was nothing like this at all. LoDo hadn't been developed at that time so no one really went down there but the downtown was very pleasant and I took a course at Denver CC and walked back to my apartment and never had any problems. Really sad.
It was like this in Lodo for a long time. There were people sleeping in every single doorway on the 16th street mall in 2010, prior to the urban camping ban.
I used to own a condo in downtown San Diego. So glad I sold it before it turned into downtown Rwanda! I don’t even go downtown anymore because it is ugly, dangerous and just not worth the effort. So I feel you Denver…
I was going to go to The British Bull Dog tonight and decided not to because of the encampment. As I drove to another restaurant a young homeless woman stood in the center of a busy intersection grabbing at the air and twisting her face while a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk was slumped and another man was trying to revive him, and this was all happening in front of The Denver Rescue Mission. The encampments are basically the "building" of private residences on public property. The Colorado Right to Rest Act does not permit people to shelter, defecate, create disturbances, harass, and consume illegal substances in public spaces. They can rest, eat, and move freely in public spaces. That's it. Otherwise, they are breaking the law. They need to be arrested, jailed, and processed like any other criminal. It doesn't solve the problem but it creates a deterrent and without a deterrent, the problem will continue to multiply. My heart breaks for Denver if this isn't stopped soon. Our thriving urban economy will crash and burn.
The situation in Denver is so out of control that I have decided to move out of state. You can blame the politicians. Denver used to be a great place to live and work. Not any more.
That's what happens when a state's largest metro area becomes infested with a bunch of technocrat bugmen who think a functioning society can be run like a computer program, or the latest galaxy-brained rad-left theoretical fashion coming out of the Good Idea Fairies of academia. Most of these dingdongs wouldn't know how to pour piss out of boot if there were instructions on the heel, and shouldn't be in charge of a lemonade stand, much less a complex society.
Did if the same 3 years ago for the same reason. I moved to Denver in 2012 and watched it fall apart. Needles everywhere, drugs and crime are rampant and have been since 2015. It’s no longer clean or safe.. I even caught charges trying to defend myself from being robbed and attacked. I had to fight 3 felony menace charges because I “scared” the people that we’re trying to corner me at 1am in a parking lot. Just insane. Fuck Denver
I've been here for 20 years. I'm out, the front range is not what it was. Either do something or Resign The mirrors are falling off the wall. And there's nobody left to fill the smoke machines. Same old, same old doesn't work anymore. Downtown is a s*** hole.
This is all over the USA and the decline started with Ronald Regan. However, you wouldn't know that because conservatives are allergic to facts, history, nuance, reason, goodwill, fairness, etc., etc. ...
@@catherinemartinez5542 I'm not a liberal. Anyway, as a progressive leftist who does not support Corporate Democrats but definitely chooses them over outright insane christofascist Republicans I can see that you only get your source of "news" from corporate right-wing media that tells you what to think instead of thinking for yourself. That's why you're having cognitive dissonance and completely ignoring Reagan's effect on the USA and also, ironically, proving my point.
@@Cowicidedid I say you were a liberal? Reading comprehension is hard, I know. Poor thing. I also didn't say I was Republican, but please keep ASSuming things, I love the entertainment. I'm not reading your reply, you're not smart enough to talk to. Good luck in life, you're going to need it! Reading comprehension, go learn it.
Taxpayers need to start a fund where they can charter buses to bring the homeless to the politicians neighborhoods. The people who let this happen need to feel the pain.
Mayor Johnson has this problem all wrong. One city cannot fix the homeless problem. If Denver provides free housing more will come here from out of state. Some researches estimate 60% of the homeless on the west coast are from out of state. Q: Why does Mississippi, the poorest state in the US, not have homeless camps? A: Because the cops and cities do not allow it.
Honest citizens don't matter in Denver. But if you're a drug addled criminal, you can do anything you want. Johnston is just more of the same, and the DAs office should be cleared out.
I miss when I used to be able to visit downtown Denver and not have to look over my shoulder so often. As a resident of Salt Lake, this is sad because I used to speak about Denver with such high regard. Now I'm just happy to be living in boring old Utah. Something needs to change. Denver needs new leadership.
Honestly I stopped going to Denver not because of the homeless but for the crime everywhere but homeless is just a small reason why I don't even want to visit that city, it honestly wasn't a really attractive city to go to anyways.
I wanna go hang out but those people can be cray cray! The worst is when you're down there and the wind blows and you can feel bunch of dust hit you in the eyes and then you see a turd
Colorado native here. I said Denver would be the new LA 10 years ago because of libtard policies, looks like I was correct. Good thing I leave in a red county. 😅
Maybe we need to adress the issues causing so many to become homeless. Or we can just keep going with business as usual. Business over life seems to be the only way most of America knows.
I'm homeless in Denver and yes I sleep in a tent but I still manage to get a job and try to get off the street but it's tough. They say they'll give me and my girl housing but I guess them fentanyl addicts get it first. All the while me and girl are actually trying to get off the street. So even tho I'm homeless I still feel for the businesses I'd be upset to hope things will clean up
Marijuana was the domino that has lead to the fall of Colorado. I watched it happen day my day after the legalization and the green rush was the beginning of the end. You can say that wasn’t it but it became popular to live here because of marijuana and social media and if you say that wasn’t it then tell me how it helped because it made Colorado so much worse. Everyone moving to Colorado bragging about how grate their lives are on social media and their friends and their entire families and now Colorado is primarily Texans and Californians.
Its legal in 29 states. You want an easy thing to blame. Its the politicians and their actions or lack thereof. Did you see how our former Mayor's son acted when pulled ovwr by the police? Exactly
@@Serpentine8100 youre straight up wrong. Its the decriminilization of fentanyl, methamphetamine, petty theft, loitering, and urban camping. The DAs office is enemy #1. When this was a red state, we didnt have the social decline that exists today. Period
Once your in the street, you have a extremely difficult time get out of there. You need to save up like ten grand to be able to afford a place THATS SECURE I wonder how much of that money will actually make it to the people that need it, and not into bank accounts of folks that don’t do anything and don’t NEED it.?
We will! Take a look at the bottom rung of Republican led red states. Poorly educated, high mortality rates for children, unhealthy adults with short life expectancy, no jobs, poverty, . No thanks!! Blue will do!!!
Democrats have been in control here for over 10 years and this is what you've got to show for it. They're doing a bang up job. 😂😂 You can comment until you're blue in the face, it still doesn't change to fact that Democrat policies are complete crapola. They love high costs of living, drugs, crime, homeless, and the ignorant fools who vote for them. Enjoy your cesspool! You deserve what you asked for.
@@aisle_of_viewthat makes no sense. I don’t care what kind of tax breaks billionaires get or who gets elected but I do care that my family and I can walk safely down the streets.
Maybe the answer to all those record profits all these billionaires are making ISN"T letting them disperse it or keep it but maybe taking some of that and fix this crisis. Let them be wealthy and make money for what they accomplish within reason. Let's put an end to poverty then talk about allow billionaires to exist.
I haven’t been downtown in a few months…last time I was in Denver there were boulders scattered along the sidewalks of some streets…so tents couldn’t be set up
If you have that many Asian and hispanic immigrants flooding the west- yet none of them are homeless- you tell me where what little affordable housing there was went to. Not to be racist here but its simple addition and subtraction. You add that many people (1.5 million per year) and all of a sudden the number of affordable homes in the US equals -1,345,754 and you can't figure out why? Then you got Jose working on building your vacation home while Li is the architect?
Close your business. Get out. The homeless have all the power. You may not know that, but here in LA, we know full well the homeless have all the rights, all the power, and will never leave.
I live in Denver/Glendale and have no interest in going downtown. It's disgusting going down there and seeing the homeless camps and how the city panders to them.
Really really hate to say this guy's but you know what you voted for this. You voted for all of it . Voted for the Cannabis you voted for everything that's happened in the last 15 years. My family would come out here to visit me from Baltimore and just brag about Denver how clean it used to be and how it was. Just really really sad to see really sad to see Denver such a great city in Colorado such a great state.
Wow. I never thought I’d say this but maybe left policies are not working. Right? We can either change policies and politics or just use online shopping for all purchases and let the homeless have it all.
@@cameron1988 Have u ever noticed that as the years go by, u have a little less freedom and prosperity incrementally? U know why that is? Because that is the goal. Voting is similar to gambling, the house always takes all the majority of the time. If voting worked in my best interest, the first thing I would vote for is to abolish prisons, cops, making it illegal to be too poor, abolish welfare state programs, most of the military, abortion, and many other punitive policies, my vote would get this accomplished if voting actually worked to change things I don’t want or to be paying for and which do not serve me 😂
@@cameron1988 Did you forget Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia? You know the states that need the federal taxes generated by the big blue cities to survive? You're more likely to be shot in Saint Louis than mugged in Denver so stop acting like this is a political game.
You have these great businesses that generate tax revenue and employ workers that brings in paying customers and your going to sit back and let these scumbags destroy it? These people have to go!
I live in Denver. We don't go downtown anymore. The violence, blatant drug use and overwhelming smell of urine makes an already difficult situation worse.
Denver’s appalling.
The Socialists in Denver Government actually encourage the bums to take advantage of the situation in downtown Denver !!!
Weak.
If Mayor Johnston could point to another city where his proposals for the homeless are working, then I'd be less skeptical. His plan for micro-communities is another boondoggle for the homeless-nonprofit-industrial complex. How come we keep spending more money and the situation gets worse? The Rodeway Inn shelter just closed, throwing 71 residents into the street, so even existing shelters can't make a go of it. There's a homeless encampment next to Woodbury Library near my home. Two weeks ago, a fight among the homeless broke out and somebody starting shooting a gun. The encampment is still there.
Mike Johnson is a blind follower of Portland style woke religion. He is a fool, and a kuck for homeless criminals. Denver deserves him though since they voted for him.
The mayor ought to be ashamed.
Who voted for the mayor?? You see, that's where your problem lies.
My hometown has turned to shyte!! Makes me so depressed. My little brother and I used to go downtown Denver by bus to walk around and see the sights and it was safe way back then.
⛔⛔Gov Polis needs to be FIRED! HE SIGN INTO LAW HB22-1139! HOMELESS WILL NOW PARK IN YOUR HOA COMMUNITIES. THE HOA CAN'T REMOVE THE VEHICLES.⛔⛔
Well, that’s what legalizing marijuana brought and did to the city and state!
Weed is legal in 29 states! Its not the weed. Red herring. They take FENTANYL and METHAMPHETAMINE
We need to take our city back from all this. I grew up there from 1994 to 2003. Age 9 to 18, so i went to high school there. It's simple, treat it as a drug problem, etc. Stop giving grants to the "non-profits" that basically just turn it into nice personal paychecks and do a half as job. We need to start talking about all the issues, ridiculously high rents etc. Rent controls do work for example, despite business and economics professors telling us the opposite in college. And maybe even run for office ourselves. Not just maybe, definitely we need to do that. I honestly didn't care much about Denver when growing up there, its why i left for college. But reading some of this breaks my heart. I grew up in the north side so hearing that these addicts are even next to Woodbury: enough of this
To constantly refer to this problem, as *'Homelessness,'* implies that putting a roof over the heads of these people will solve the problem. Call it what it is: an invasion of dangerous street rats, drug addicts, and the mentally ill. Some need to go to jail. Some need to go to rehab. Some need to be cared for in institutions. Unless you see it for what it is, you'll never fix it.
You are absolutely correct 👍👍
@@pedalingprospector2007 hey, you and I agree on something!
There was a time when we had the institutions to care for the mentally ill. Regan took care of all that.
@@rcas350pilot8 agreed. And that should never have happened. Would you vote for someone who is prepared to correct it? I would too. But I don't think it's going to be the Democrats.
@@everiokeNo party alone can solve this crisis. Republicans will just put them on buses and send them elsewhere.
I live in California the problem is 10x worse and it brings down everyone 😢
This happens in all Democrat areas!!!
"Commiefornia" is LOST = GET OUT while you can !!!
The goal is to destroy our cities YES it's happening
It's sad what they allowed to happen Downtown.
⛔⛔Gov Polis needs to be FIRED! HE SIGN INTO LAW HB22-1139! HOMELESS WILL NOW PARK IN YOUR HOA COMMUNITIES. THE HOA CAN'T REMOVE THE VEHICLES.⛔⛔
@@seymorefact4333well they can either live in your house, you can get them housing or they can live in the vehicles. Those are the options, you have to choose one.
@BigBadJerryRogers for the mentally ill and druggies... put them on komodo Island and let them be. They have no purpose! There family's and friends don't care enough to house and feed them. WHY SHOULD I and others.
@@seymorefact4333Shut up! Deplorable trash!
@@BigBadJerryRogers Bullshit!!! See @everioke's comment. I couldn't have said it better.
The British Bulldog, Mercury Cafe have been there since i was a child. I'm terribly sorry it's happening to such places.
For as long as vagrancy is allowed, I take my business elsewhere.
Good! Go back to the burbs snowflake!!!
I can 100% tell you a major business that houses staff in downtown Denver will be moving out. That’s about 200 people year round that will not be filling hotel rooms and or buying food at businesses in the area.
The streets all smell like urine, poop, trash and needles on the ground, homeless harassing and assaulting the public hourly, homeless screaming in the street at night so loud you can hear it on the 6th floor, and so on. I stayed downtown for a month and saw all of this including people stealing at the Target multiple times.
I walked to the British Bulldog and it was rough. Guy peeing on the sidewalk during middle of day.
You can’t even enjoy the public grass areas because they all have to be fenced off so homeless don’t camp there.
These people need to be forcefully housed in a medical facility. It’s not heartless, it’s common sense. They are a daily threat to them selves no others, they are committing crimes daily, they are ruining the lives of local businesses and individuals just trying to walk down a street. Time to stop playing games and actually govern by making public areas safe and functional.
Welcome to another Democrat-run Ghetto!!!
A key issue here is that once the problem gets to this point, the city no longer has the revenue to really solve it. The cost to house them in a medical facility would be staggering.
@@alexanderpatterson7117And to think the "legalization" of drugs would serve to fund those things 😆
@@alexanderpatterson7117 Yet billions of $$$ are being spent on caring for foreigners.
Deport, deport, deport.
Bankrupt businesses do not pay taxes.
Neither do Democrats.
Very sad. Denver used to be a beautiful city with tons of shopping downtown.
They decided to lockdown for 3 years and that's what destroyed them.
I lived in downtown Denver on 17th street from Oct of 1990 to May of 1992. What an incredible change. There was nothing like this at all. LoDo hadn't been developed at that time so no one really went down there but the downtown was very pleasant and I took a course at Denver CC and walked back to my apartment and never had any problems. Really sad.
It was like this in Lodo for a long time. There were people sleeping in every single doorway on the 16th street mall in 2010, prior to the urban camping ban.
That's why I've been freaking out in Lakewood. Because Wadsworth has turned into Federal.
I used to own a condo in downtown San Diego. So glad I sold it before it turned into downtown Rwanda! I don’t even go downtown anymore because it is ugly, dangerous and just not worth the effort. So I feel you Denver…
I am from Denver. I lived in SD in 2019 and 2021. The homeless problem in Denver is WAY worse than SD. Believe it or not.
We are California 2.0. Another paradise ruined.
Once my winter wonderland then the green rush came housing prices and rent became far more than outrageous and that was the beginning of the end
Portland and Chicago are gunning for that Title as well!
I was going to go to The British Bull Dog tonight and decided not to because of the encampment. As I drove to another restaurant a young homeless woman stood in the center of a busy intersection grabbing at the air and twisting her face while a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk was slumped and another man was trying to revive him, and this was all happening in front of The Denver Rescue Mission. The encampments are basically the "building" of private residences on public property. The Colorado Right to Rest Act does not permit people to shelter, defecate, create disturbances, harass, and consume illegal substances in public spaces. They can rest, eat, and move freely in public spaces. That's it. Otherwise, they are breaking the law. They need to be arrested, jailed, and processed like any other criminal. It doesn't solve the problem but it creates a deterrent and without a deterrent, the problem will continue to multiply. My heart breaks for Denver if this isn't stopped soon. Our thriving urban economy will crash and burn.
The situation in Denver is so out of control that I have decided to move out of state. You can blame the politicians. Denver used to be a great place to live and work. Not any more.
That's what happens when a state's largest metro area becomes infested with a bunch of technocrat bugmen who think a functioning society can be run like a computer program, or the latest galaxy-brained rad-left theoretical fashion coming out of the Good Idea Fairies of academia. Most of these dingdongs wouldn't know how to pour piss out of boot if there were instructions on the heel, and shouldn't be in charge of a lemonade stand, much less a complex society.
I blame the voters
Dumb and Dumver
Please don't move to a Republican state. We don't need people like you.
Did if the same 3 years ago for the same reason. I moved to Denver in 2012 and watched it fall apart. Needles everywhere, drugs and crime are rampant and have been since 2015. It’s no longer clean or safe..
I even caught charges trying to defend myself from being robbed and attacked. I had to fight 3 felony menace charges because I “scared” the people that we’re trying to corner me at 1am in a parking lot.
Just insane.
Fuck Denver
I've been here for 20 years. I'm out, the front range is not what it was.
Either do something or Resign The mirrors are falling off the wall. And there's nobody left to fill the smoke machines. Same old, same old doesn't work anymore. Downtown is a s*** hole.
where ya gonna go?
Gov polis is killing this state
This is all over the USA and the decline started with Ronald Regan. However, you wouldn't know that because conservatives are allergic to facts, history, nuance, reason, goodwill, fairness, etc., etc. ...
@@Cowicide😂😂😂 you just described liberals. Try again.
@@catherinemartinez5542 I'm not a liberal. Anyway, as a progressive leftist who does not support Corporate Democrats but definitely chooses them over outright insane christofascist Republicans I can see that you only get your source of "news" from corporate right-wing media that tells you what to think instead of thinking for yourself. That's why you're having cognitive dissonance and completely ignoring Reagan's effect on the USA and also, ironically, proving my point.
@@Cowicidedid I say you were a liberal? Reading comprehension is hard, I know. Poor thing. I also didn't say I was Republican, but please keep ASSuming things, I love the entertainment. I'm not reading your reply, you're not smart enough to talk to. Good luck in life, you're going to need it! Reading comprehension, go learn it.
Anyone interested in how this all came about should watch "Rocky Mountain Heist" and "Denver In Decay"
Taxpayers need to start a fund where they can charter buses to bring the homeless to the politicians neighborhoods. The people who let this happen need to feel the pain.
Plenty of good land at the denver country club to set up camps ,They would have to dodge golf balls
The people who let it happen are the voters. They're getting what they deserve
Let's do it! 😆
Mayor Johnson has this problem all wrong. One city cannot fix the homeless problem. If Denver provides free housing more will come here from out of state. Some researches estimate 60% of the homeless on the west coast are from out of state. Q: Why does Mississippi, the poorest state in the US, not have homeless camps? A: Because the cops and cities do not allow it.
Your city will go the way of SF, LA, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis if your city officials don't step up and crack down on crime.
Make it illegal to camp outside set up a homeless program like haven for hope that gets them off drugs and a job and housing
Honest citizens don't matter in Denver. But if you're a drug addled criminal, you can do anything you want. Johnston is just more of the same, and the DAs office should be cleared out.
You sound like a drug addicted criminal speaking from experience. How else would you know, right?
@@randal_gibbonsno they sound like someone who pulled their head out of their arse and can think for themselves. Try it sometime.
I miss when I used to be able to visit downtown Denver and not have to look over my shoulder so often. As a resident of Salt Lake, this is sad because I used to speak about Denver with such high regard. Now I'm just happy to be living in boring old Utah. Something needs to change. Denver needs new leadership.
Just build a huge complex move them all in and guard the gates with cops
Its called the county jail
And I thought the Colorado Rockies was the only thing that stunk in Denver!
⛔⛔Gov Polis needs to be FIRED! HE SIGN INTO LAW HB22-1139! HOMELESS WILL NOW PARK IN YOUR HOA COMMUNITIES. THE HOA CAN'T REMOVE THE VEHICLES.⛔⛔
Fuck HOAs
How did that emergency injunction for unconstitutional gun laws go for you today polis.
Close down all business = no need to pay taxes.
Honestly I stopped going to Denver not because of the homeless but for the crime everywhere but homeless is just a small reason why I don't even want to visit that city, it honestly wasn't a really attractive city to go to anyways.
Who do you think is DOING this crime????
I wanna go hang out but those people can be cray cray! The worst is when you're down there and the wind blows and you can feel bunch of dust hit you in the eyes and then you see a turd
Someone ought to burn that encampment down to ashes just like Emperor Niro did in Rome....
Happening in every big city 👎
You meant to say happening in every Big Blue City
Absolutely unacceptable these politicians should be voted out ASAP PERIOD NO EXCUSES
Voting twice for a clown like California bred Jared Polis and they wonder what happened. Duh.
He’s the governor, not the mayor! He’s actually done great things for the state!! Success Bree’s problems
@@ms.b9093great things my left foot 😂😂
I'm not a fan of Polis, but he was born and raised in Boulder, not California.
@@cmc5394oparva The family moved to San Diego when he was 5. Boulder raised is another one of his lies.
@@ms.b9093 Hahahahahahahahaha! That was a good one. Thanks for the laugh!
Colorado native here. I said Denver would be the new LA 10 years ago because of libtard policies, looks like I was correct. Good thing I leave in a red county. 😅
Don't go to Denver anymore .
And you are Safe
Maybe we need to adress the issues causing so many to become homeless. Or we can just keep going with business as usual. Business over life seems to be the only way most of America knows.
@@REL602LMFAO stfu fool. Democrats have been in control in Denver for over 10 years. You can't blame Republicans for this.
@@olig4699 where did you get your info? Go smoke another rock.
@olig4699 wow. You are special
I'm homeless in Denver and yes I sleep in a tent but I still manage to get a job and try to get off the street but it's tough. They say they'll give me and my girl housing but I guess them fentanyl addicts get it first. All the while me and girl are actually trying to get off the street. So even tho I'm homeless I still feel for the businesses I'd be upset to hope things will clean up
The homeless takeover 😅😅😅
Can't afford housing
@BigBadJerryRogers they're all doped up so they can't even work.
Marijuana was the domino that has lead to the fall of Colorado. I watched it happen day my day after the legalization and the green rush was the beginning of the end. You can say that wasn’t it but it became popular to live here because of marijuana and social media and if you say that wasn’t it then tell me how it helped because it made Colorado so much worse. Everyone moving to Colorado bragging about how grate their lives are on social media and their friends and their entire families and now Colorado is primarily Texans and Californians.
Its legal in 29 states. You want an easy thing to blame. Its the politicians and their actions or lack thereof. Did you see how our former Mayor's son acted when pulled ovwr by the police? Exactly
@@Serpentine8100 youre straight up wrong. Its the decriminilization of fentanyl, methamphetamine, petty theft, loitering, and urban camping. The DAs office is enemy #1. When this was a red state, we didnt have the social decline that exists today. Period
That was eleven years ago@@Serpentine8100 Cry harder
@@WN_Byers I blame the voters of Dumb and Dumver
The business owners need to clean it up themselves. Look at Portland, LA, Oakland, San Diego, where the cities allowed homeless camping.
Losses in revenue means less tax dollars that do nothing to help this growing problem?
Never forget, Denver voted for and continues to vote for this.
Homelessness is very profitable for people who administer grants. My neighbor made over $100,000 ‘helping” the homeless.
The people get the government they deserve.
wrong answer
The fish and chips and the British Bulldog are off the chain! REALLY GREAT!
Wherever the homeless go death and destruction travel with them.
everyone pay taxes why not building housing. stop saying you can not afford it.
Once your in the street, you have a extremely difficult time get out of there.
You need to save up like ten grand to be able to afford a place THATS SECURE
I wonder how much of that money will actually make it to the people that need it, and not into bank accounts of folks that don’t do anything and don’t NEED it.?
more more coming 2024
Keep voting blue no matter who 😂😂
We will! Take a look at the bottom rung of Republican led red states. Poorly educated, high mortality rates for children, unhealthy adults with short life expectancy, no jobs, poverty, . No thanks!! Blue will do!!!
Repubs _ ""We will fix it, but first, let's give billionaires tax breaks"
Democrats have been in control here for over 10 years and this is what you've got to show for it. They're doing a bang up job. 😂😂 You can comment until you're blue in the face, it still doesn't change to fact that Democrat policies are complete crapola. They love high costs of living, drugs, crime, homeless, and the ignorant fools who vote for them. Enjoy your cesspool! You deserve what you asked for.
@@aisle_of_viewthat makes no sense. I don’t care what kind of tax breaks billionaires get or who gets elected but I do care that my family and I can walk safely down the streets.
@@aisle_of_view My next door neighbor has a dog named Bert. See how that's also completely irrelevant?
It's OK. More illegal immigrants are on the way. The Mayor's plan is working. Vote responsibly.
you people voted for this.....ENJOY!!!!
No, ... Actually I voted against this... unfortunately, not the popular vote.
Oh but it doesn't tell you about his 35% of front door security experience
Charging 90$ an hour for security. Who's the crook?
That’s the rate to hire off duty police officers, unfortunately.
Get RID of overpopulation
Maybe the answer to all those record profits all these billionaires are making ISN"T letting them disperse it or keep it but maybe taking some of that and fix this crisis. Let them be wealthy and make money for what they accomplish within reason. Let's put an end to poverty then talk about allow billionaires to exist.
I haven’t been downtown in a few months…last time I was in Denver there were boulders scattered along the sidewalks of some streets…so tents couldn’t be set up
If you have that many Asian and hispanic immigrants flooding the west- yet none of them are homeless- you tell me where what little affordable housing there was went to. Not to be racist here but its simple addition and subtraction. You add that many people (1.5 million per year) and all of a sudden the number of affordable homes in the US equals -1,345,754 and you can't figure out why? Then you got Jose working on building your vacation home while Li is the architect?
Keep on voting for these democrats. There's more where that came from.
Get used to it.
Close your business. Get out. The homeless have all the power. You may not know that, but here in LA, we know full well the homeless have all the rights, all the power, and will never leave.
Release the Dumpsters ✊
I live in Denver/Glendale and have no interest in going downtown. It's disgusting going down there and seeing the homeless camps and how the city panders to them.
What's even worse is waiting for the bus and have people somking that fitenal whatever that's called and seeing police drive by and do nothing.
Nothing is worth walking through tweakerville to get.
I hardly ever go downtown now, it isn’t safe anymore.
It's just going to get worse with the cost of living going up and rent way outta control
What’s their solution months later? Open shelters on the Westside and Parkhill 🙄.
Of course. right?
Remember Denver elections have consequences so enjoy what you voted for 😂.
Thanks Democrat Voters
City and County of Denver suck. Why do we have to wait for help to remove these homeless from Denver Businesses
Minimum wage jobs cannot cover rent anymore.
Fix the rent problem = fix 50% of the homelessness problem.
But the cops are instead sitting at the bottom of Speer Bridge to give speeding tickets for 8 over. They don’t care.
Remember what they took from you, Denver.
Really really hate to say this guy's but you know what you voted for this. You voted for all of it . Voted for the Cannabis you voted for everything that's happened in the last 15 years. My family would come out here to visit me from Baltimore and just brag about Denver how clean it used to be and how it was. Just really really sad to see really sad to see Denver such a great city in Colorado such a great state.
Cannabis should not be illegal
@user-zm6qj9cz7b makes me curious as to how much cannabis costs vs meth or other drugs...
Cannabis is 10/g. Fentanyl is cheaper
Thank you liberals
Denver has been getting trashed since 2015.
Wow. I never thought I’d say this but maybe left policies are not working. Right?
We can either change policies and politics or just use online shopping for all purchases and let the homeless have it all.
We need asylum! This is Progressive politics at its best.
Vote Blue, no matter who! Johnston is every bit as honest and effective as Hanclown was.
I'm old enough to remember when Denver was clean, diverse, non-gentrified, and a blast to hang out in. American leftism is a cancer.
SF junior 😅
Keep voting for airheads America!
It's all designed to get rid of the less fortunate one's
Vote Blue = Go Broke !!!
It doesn’t matter who u vote for, the end goal is to take us back to feudalism but with technology this time.
@@ildyivy it does matter. Take a good look at liberal cities like Oakland, SF, LA, Chicago, Seattle, Portland…. Denver. Liberals love lawless
@@cameron1988 Have u ever noticed that as the years go by, u have a little less freedom and prosperity incrementally? U know why that is? Because that is the goal. Voting is similar to gambling, the house always takes all the majority of the time. If voting worked in my best interest, the first thing I would vote for is to abolish prisons, cops, making it illegal to be too poor, abolish welfare state programs, most of the military, abortion, and many other punitive policies, my vote would get this accomplished if voting actually worked to change things I don’t want or to be paying for and which do not serve me 😂
@@cameron1988 Did you forget Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia? You know the states that need the federal taxes generated by the big blue cities to survive? You're more likely to be shot in Saint Louis than mugged in Denver so stop acting like this is a political game.
@cameron1988 they love lawless bc people will be so fearful that we will beg for their protection...more protection means rights removed
Vote !
You have these great businesses that generate tax revenue and employ workers that brings in paying customers and your going to sit back and let these scumbags destroy it? These people have to go!
Downtown grand junction Colorado is just as bad!! & pigeons on restaurant roofs and ventilation systems..
Don't bring your politics to the South when you move.
COLORADO NEEDS SAME LAW FLORIDA PASSED.
NO CAMPING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY!!!!!!!!!
I wonder why Could it be the unwelcomed guests in tents all ng your streets?😅
You democrats voted for this.
Open the Border. Re-elect Biden.
LGBT voted for polis,this is what you get when you vote biased based,instead of policy and common sense based!
Vote Democrap, this is what you get.
I'm not worried about the homeless people i just handle my business if i need to be downtown and go home.
Interesting, so you vandalize cars then go home.
@@packerbacker69 no a-hole I don't mess with 💩 that doesn't belong to me how about you