![]() ![]() ![]() We cross-referenced police records with the dates and locations of sweeps over the last six months and found a handful of arrests, mostly for open warrants, that took place at the same times and places as these big cleanups. Just more bull****.”īut now, people subject to sweeps are worried that they could go to jail. “It’s just more bull**** that we gotta adapt to. They are talking about no camping in the city of Denver and you’re going to get ticketed, blah blah blah,” Kevin Tindall, a veteran and chef who grew up in Aurora and has lived outside on-and-off since 2002, said as he moved along. “They’re going to crack down on camping and they’re going to start handing out citations and taking people to jail.” “They just told me that right now,” Kim Richmond, who said she’s been estranged from family and living outside for four years, told us during a sweep in Five Points. Nearly everyone we spoke to said police and city workers have directly warned them about increased enforcement in the last few months. We’ve attended early morning encampment sweeps in recent months to ground-truth concerns we’ve heard from advocates like Beck. ![]() Denver’s streets are swarming with talk about crackdowns. While Mayor Michael Hancock’s office told us repeatedly that there’s been no changes to protocol or policy regarding visible homelessness, evidence suggests authorities have begun to ramp up enforcement on people without roofs over their heads. ![]()
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