Dems Craft Cruel Punishment for Small Businesses to Cover Up Shocking Policy Failures
Aug 6, 2022 11:37:57 #
Dems Craft Cruel Punishment for Small Businesses to Cover Up Shocking Policy Failures
Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies and toxic “defund the police” mania not only have spawned terrifying crime waves in liberal cities, but they’re also hurting small businesses that are already being crushed by historic inflation.
In Democrat-run Denver, police are forcing food trucks to leave the city’s bustling Lower Downtown area as part of a harebrained effort to reduce crime, KMGH-TV reported on Saturday.
“The Denver Police Department recognizes that relocating food trucks may initially cause disruption for the food truck vendors,” the department said in a statement to the outlet.
“However, to increase safety for all who visit and work in the LoDo area, including the food truck vendors, DPD believes that having them operate in a different location is a solution to help facilitate people leaving downtown during the out-crowd and to curb large gatherings, during which DPD has seen conflicts and violence,” it said.
https://youtu.be/4p-StgB2ufI
Instead of arresting and prosecuting criminals to curb crime, city officials in Denver think banning food trucks from the busy downtown area (where the customers are) is the solution.
This boneheaded strategy is like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
Food truck operators are furious, saying being forced to relocate to areas with less foot traffic will destroy their livelihoods.
“It feels horrible. And as a new business — woman in business — it’s just hard,” Leilani Johnson, the owner of RJ’s TacoWich, told KMGH.
Is banning food trucks an effective way to deter crime?
Yes: 1% (7 V**es)
No: 99% (555 V**es)
“It’s already hard. And now we’re making it even harder. We did half of our normal sales on a Saturday night,” she said. “There are better ways to solve this problem that [don’t] involve hurting the small businesses who are trying to perform a service for our community members.”
Another food truck operator, Mohammad Alissa, said he won’t be able to survive if the ban becomes permanent.
“If some bad guy has a gun and goes to the area, we are not responsible for the gun. We are just selling gyros, tacos, pizza,” Alissa told KUSA-TV.
“The police and the city, they don’t want us to be working,” he lamented. “It affects us big-time. This is our life, our income.”
Numerous Twitter users mocked Denver officials’ move to punish food truck operators instead of criminals.
er has had a Democratic mayor for decades — since 1963.
Crime spiked dramatically during the past two years, coinciding with the rise of the anti-police Black L***s M****r movement and the Democratic Party’s rabid push to relax criminal prosecutions.
The result has been a calamitous erosion in public safety and an alarming plunge in the citizenry’s quality of life.
“New statewide data on Colorado’s crime rates puts hard numbers to what many in law enforcement have been saying for the past 14 months: Crime in almost all categories started going up before the p******c and continues to rapidly rise,” Colorado Public Radio reported in March.
“Violent crime, which counts homicides, aggravated assaults, sex assaults and robberies, is up 17 percent between 2019 and 2021. Murder is up 47 percent in those two years,” the report said.
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen told CPR that new laws reducing penalties for certain crimes, such as auto theft and illegal drug possession, could be responsible for rising crimes.
Tom Raynes, head of the Colorado District Attorney’s Council, agreed.
“There’s nothing compassionate about leaving a heroin user or a f******l user or a meth user on the street or arresting them and turning them back out,” Raynes told CPR. “You’re just enabling the addiction, and that doesn’t help anybody.”
By now, it’s painfully obvious that the left’s “defund the police” movement and Democrats’ refusal to prosecute and punish criminals — in the name of “equity” — has been an unmitigated disaster.
In New York, for example, 10 career criminals who were repeatedly released from police custody as a result of the liberal city’s no-bail law have racked up a whopping 500 arrests.
This abuse of the criminal justice system is an inexcusable waste of taxpayer-funded resources and an ongoing danger to public safety.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dems-craft-cruel-punishment-small-businesses-cover-shocking-policy-failures/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=8fb799e06563a601f50b5fdaf395b859
Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies and toxic “defund the police” mania not only have spawned terrifying crime waves in liberal cities, but they’re also hurting small businesses that are already being crushed by historic inflation.
In Democrat-run Denver, police are forcing food trucks to leave the city’s bustling Lower Downtown area as part of a harebrained effort to reduce crime, KMGH-TV reported on Saturday.
“The Denver Police Department recognizes that relocating food trucks may initially cause disruption for the food truck vendors,” the department said in a statement to the outlet.
“However, to increase safety for all who visit and work in the LoDo area, including the food truck vendors, DPD believes that having them operate in a different location is a solution to help facilitate people leaving downtown during the out-crowd and to curb large gatherings, during which DPD has seen conflicts and violence,” it said.
https://youtu.be/4p-StgB2ufI
Instead of arresting and prosecuting criminals to curb crime, city officials in Denver think banning food trucks from the busy downtown area (where the customers are) is the solution.
This boneheaded strategy is like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
Food truck operators are furious, saying being forced to relocate to areas with less foot traffic will destroy their livelihoods.
“It feels horrible. And as a new business — woman in business — it’s just hard,” Leilani Johnson, the owner of RJ’s TacoWich, told KMGH.
Is banning food trucks an effective way to deter crime?
Yes: 1% (7 V**es)
No: 99% (555 V**es)
“It’s already hard. And now we’re making it even harder. We did half of our normal sales on a Saturday night,” she said. “There are better ways to solve this problem that [don’t] involve hurting the small businesses who are trying to perform a service for our community members.”
Another food truck operator, Mohammad Alissa, said he won’t be able to survive if the ban becomes permanent.
“If some bad guy has a gun and goes to the area, we are not responsible for the gun. We are just selling gyros, tacos, pizza,” Alissa told KUSA-TV.
“The police and the city, they don’t want us to be working,” he lamented. “It affects us big-time. This is our life, our income.”
Numerous Twitter users mocked Denver officials’ move to punish food truck operators instead of criminals.
er has had a Democratic mayor for decades — since 1963.
Crime spiked dramatically during the past two years, coinciding with the rise of the anti-police Black L***s M****r movement and the Democratic Party’s rabid push to relax criminal prosecutions.
The result has been a calamitous erosion in public safety and an alarming plunge in the citizenry’s quality of life.
“New statewide data on Colorado’s crime rates puts hard numbers to what many in law enforcement have been saying for the past 14 months: Crime in almost all categories started going up before the p******c and continues to rapidly rise,” Colorado Public Radio reported in March.
“Violent crime, which counts homicides, aggravated assaults, sex assaults and robberies, is up 17 percent between 2019 and 2021. Murder is up 47 percent in those two years,” the report said.
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen told CPR that new laws reducing penalties for certain crimes, such as auto theft and illegal drug possession, could be responsible for rising crimes.
Tom Raynes, head of the Colorado District Attorney’s Council, agreed.
“There’s nothing compassionate about leaving a heroin user or a f******l user or a meth user on the street or arresting them and turning them back out,” Raynes told CPR. “You’re just enabling the addiction, and that doesn’t help anybody.”
By now, it’s painfully obvious that the left’s “defund the police” movement and Democrats’ refusal to prosecute and punish criminals — in the name of “equity” — has been an unmitigated disaster.
In New York, for example, 10 career criminals who were repeatedly released from police custody as a result of the liberal city’s no-bail law have racked up a whopping 500 arrests.
This abuse of the criminal justice system is an inexcusable waste of taxpayer-funded resources and an ongoing danger to public safety.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dems-craft-cruel-punishment-small-businesses-cover-shocking-policy-failures/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=8fb799e06563a601f50b5fdaf395b859
Aug 6, 2022 11:53:19 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Dems Craft Cruel Punishment for Small Businesses t... (show quote)
Never v**e Democrat.
Aug 6, 2022 12:01:48 #
son of witless wrote:
Never v**e Democrat.
I'm 78 and I hope I live long enough to v**e in 2024.......soon after that I'll probably be v****g Democrat and several times in each e******n.
Aug 6, 2022 12:44:10 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
I'm 78 and I hope I live long enough to v**e in 20... (show quote)
just when we thought death couldn't get any worse.....
Aug 6, 2022 18:42:29 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
I'm 78 and I hope I live long enough to v**e in 20... (show quote)
You really threw me. I had to read that twice, but some days I am as stupid as a Liberal. Then it hit me like the proverbial thunderbolt.
Yea one day we will all be Democrat V**ers, and we won't be looking too good that's for sure. I wonder if I dug up my parents and grand parents I could stop them from pulling that Big D lever ?
Aug 7, 2022 15:54:38 #
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