PRAGMATIC ISSUES

Tonight, my apartment complex was broken into. One of my neighbours was traumatised by a homeless drug addict trying to gain entrance into his apartment, yelling, screaming, throwing things. Several minutes wondering what would happen if it were worse—someone was inside, if someone got hurt what do we do? And while the intruder was yelling, I couldn’t help but think: this isn’t random. This is the direct result of the city’s own failed policies.

Let’s not sugarcoat it—Colfax and Downing have become Denver’s sanctioned drug corridor, and the mayor knows it. The Papa John’s on Colfax has turned into a hub for crime and open-air drug use, and instead of shutting it down or protecting the residents who live nearby, our so-called leaders shrug. They’ve chosen “harm reduction” as a buzzword while ignoring the harm done to the people who actually call this city home.

Mayor Johnston and his allies at City Hall want to call Denver a model of progressive compassion. But what’s compassionate about forcing residents to live next door to chaos? Next door to a city sanctioned drug den? Scared to walk to their cars, take out trash, check the mail? What’s forward-thinking about telling tax-paying citizens that they just need to “accept” open drug markets in their neighborhoods? What’s just about a police department that can’t respond to a violent crime in because city leaders hold them back, leaving families terrified and communities exposed?

Denver leadership loves to stand behind podiums and issue press releases. But when it comes to actually governing—keeping people safe, making neighborhoods livable, ensuring families aren’t locked in apartments wondering when help will come—they are nowhere to be found.

This city isn’t failing by accident. It’s failing because its leaders have decided that ideology matters more than people, that photo ops matter more than safety, and that spin matters more than truth. And until Denver’s mayor admits that sanctioned drug zones and unchecked crime are not “solutions” but accelerants, residents will continue to pay the price.

So here’s the real question: how many more break-ins, overdoses, and violent nights will it take before Mayor Mike the Joke Johnston does the job he was elected to do? Because if he can’t, then maybe it’s time Denver found someone who can.

Cue one Donald Trump, can you send in the guard maybe, just a couple of them???? No we don’t want a dick tatter we want effective leadership that keeps us all safe, our neighbours, our neborhouds…our streets and shut this goddman Papa John’s down the city sanctioned drug den of Denver.

Also in the time it took me to write this article the police are still conducting an investigation.

Donald, the Don, I have a job for your “Landscapers. Care To Find Out What it is?”