Downtown events marred by violence over weekend

[SQL]

Originally Posted by nick4242

Denver does not have a homeless problem and no events were ever "marred" in downtown Denver by a small scuffle.

This is 18 pages on nonsense. My 2 cents. Denver is one of the only major cities where the center of attraction is a 1 mile long pedestrian mall lined with corporate big box retailers, so it cannot even be compared to most other cities. I just don't go to that mall. There are plenty of other Ross's, Gap's, Chili's and Starbucks around Denver. There isn't even 1 single upper class store in that entire 1 mile stretch, so as the saying goes "you get what you pay for". I don't expect the city of Denver to bend over backwards to clean up what is basically a corporate middle american lower-middle class establishment.

If the establishments don't like homeless, let them remove them... but they could care less. They are all stuck in the middle class trap, they all make low salaries and all have that corporate lackluster attitude down there.

It's a low wage teenager's paradise down there for sure. Can't imagine anyone with an income above $40k shopping there. But if Denver wants to be the city of low wage corporate workers than let it. The rest of us will be in Cherry Creek... it works out for us all.

You have your head buried in the sand. This is not about one small scuffle. There have been a number of issues reported and caught on camera illustrating harassment and assault by the vagrant population.

And let's not pretend this is about Denver's typical homeless population; it's not. When I moved here eight years ago, I would see the same few homeless people wandering the mall. They were harmless and left people alone. What we have now is a vagrant problem. These are aimless wanderers who have come here from surrounding states looking for easy access to drugs and a city with a large population and amenities so that they can leech off of them.

[Timmyy]

Originally Posted by nick4242

Denver does not have a homeless problem and no events were ever "marred" in downtown Denver by a small scuffle.

This is 18 pages on nonsense. My 2 cents. Denver is one of the only major cities where the center of attraction is a 1 mile long pedestrian mall lined with corporate big box retailers, so it cannot even be compared to most other cities. I just don't go to that mall. There are plenty of other Ross's, Gap's, Chili's and Starbucks around Denver. There isn't even 1 single upper class store in that entire 1 mile stretch, so as the saying goes "you get what you pay for". I don't expect the city of Denver to bend over backwards to clean up what is basically a corporate middle american lower-middle class establishment.

If the establishments don't like homeless, let them remove them... but they could care less. They are all stuck in the middle class trap, they all make low salaries and all have that corporate lackluster attitude down there.

It's a low wage teenager's paradise down there for sure. Can't imagine anyone with an income above $40k shopping there. But if Denver wants to be the city of low wage corporate workers than let it. The rest of us will be in Cherry Creek... it works out for us all.

Keep that pinkie high when you sip your wine. As SQL has said you have your head in the sand. Just drive south and you will see more and more homeless begging for money at intersections. This is not just a 16th street problem but a metro one.

[skins_fan82]

Originally Posted by nick4242

Can't imagine anyone with an income above $40k shopping there. But if Denver wants to be the city of low wage corporate workers than let it. The rest of us will be in Cherry Creek... it works out for us all.