I’ve been a witness to malfeasance and criminal activity and just plain underhanded, off the bottom of the deck dealings in the City of Denver for a number of years. I go back as far as the McNichols administration stretching now into the town’s best friend Michael Hancock.
I have also been a monitor of the total lay down media in the Front Range including radio, television and newspapers. But never in my storied career have I seen anything as tragic, misreported and flat dishonest behavior than I have witnessed beginning when the Denver City Council voted 12-1 to initiate supervised use sites for injectable drugs.
The biggest offender other than the elected officials has been KUSA, Channel 9. I’ve accused them of being weaponized before when it came to creating Deborah Ramirez, the behavior of Brandon Marshall, what happens inside Denver Broncos, Denver Players and Sugar, ignoring the truth about Matthew Shepard’s murder, the George Babbitesque home town boostering and flat-out media manipulation. The Denver Post is behind that and other media outlets have played the same game and many just choose to turn a blind eye.
The biggest offenders on the political side I happen to believe are John Hickenlooper and Michael Hancock. If anyone thinks that Councilman Albus Brooks came up with this on his own I got a bridge in Brooklyn. Also, dear reader don’t you find it suspicious that there has not been anyone, with the exception of one person in the Republican Party speaking out against this? Where are you Cory Gardner? Where is the Governor? Where is Governor-Elect Polis? Where, for that matter, is there anyone saying that this thing not only doesn’t work but destroys lives and cities. I have diligently worked on this.
And in spite of proclamations from Channel 9 and politicians that there is not statistical evidence or studies on Vancouver proving it not to be a positive experience there are numbers of statistical evidence, variables on crime, overdose deaths hospital overloads, heroin addict population increases, meth people walking Vancouver like the TV series The Walking Dead. Why would anyone want to bring that here?
Let me give you a couple of quickies.
Denver claims that 201 people died last year of drug overdoses in Denver. Albus Brooks claims a thousand of our friends and neighbors in all of Colorado died last year of ODs. Vancouver is a smaller city than Denver and now has safe injection sites and a thousand people overdosed in the city of Vancouver alone. Let that sink in. Vancouver is smaller and has safe sites and has 800 more ODs than Denver. Other statistics — Vancouver after safe sites had to hire 90 more police officers into the area around East Hasting Street in Vancouver where safe sites are located. A rookie cop in Denver starts at $57,000 and change. That would cost taxpayers here an additional $5.2 million dollars.
Vancouver had one of the best health care systems in the world. It’s now been overrun with other multiple diseases. Here’s one for the record books. Albus and his minions claim people get off the streets. Last year only 252 people graduated from detox. Remember detox is not rehab. Vancouver claims there were 6,532 different people visiting 263,713 times. 252 people graduated from detox and detox again is not rehab. I know that one well.
Just for the record the Imperial British that run Denver — that’s a reference to the Opium Wars in China — claim that the safe sites will stop addicts from using in public places. Vancouver says there are about 15,000 injections a day in the city while the sites monitor 600 injections a day. I can’t do math and I can’t do marriage but a friend of mine who can says that means 90% of injections take place away from the sites.
People are drawn there, and people die there. When an IV drug user hits the vein, they seem to want to curl up, nod out, feel warm and let the rush come over them. Then a do-gooder in the sites rushes in and administers the antidote Narcan and effectively kills the buzz. And then they rush over and mark “we just saved one more” on the wall. And that’s where these idiots get their numbers of saves. How would they know? Folks, this is just at first blush. When you read statistics on crimes against persons, street assaults, vehicle theft, prostitution, breaking and entering these are skyrocketing statistics since 2007 when Vancouver was foolish enough to let this stupidity loose on its own people.
Please stop this. Don’t let this get any further. I don’t think anyone in Denver media, nor, with one or two exceptions, any damn fool involved in city government has any idea what they’re doing. For the sake of everybody’s children and grandchildren do not let them release these dogs on an otherwise great city.
— Peter Boyles