Editor: Crime has spiked here since the pandemic, just as it has all over the country in both Democratic and Republican strongholds, and people are often misled about what a
state’s Attorney General can do about it. In fact, District Attorneys, police and
sheriffs have most of the responsibility to fight frontline crime. What an Attorney
General can do, while managing ten departments under his auspices, is what our AG
Phil Weiser has done.
At the Capitol, he pushed for greater resources and stronger laws to curb the spread
of deadly fentanyl. He supported legislation to provide greater resources for rural
police and sheriffs offices to support law enforcement academy training costs for new
officers, and led an ambitious initiative to drive the recruitment, retention, and
training of responsible law enforcement professionals across the state. And Phil even
sued the federal government when it broke the law by illegally withholding badly
needed public safety funds from Colorado police and sheriffs. Funds that were
needed so they can do the job of fighting frontline crime in their communities. And
he won. Phil also supported responsible gun safety measures that remove firearms
from domestic violence offenders found likely to harm their families or significant
others.
Instead of inflaming public fear about crime, our Attorney General takes action. Phil
is tackling the issue from all angles and for the long term. This November, we must
re-elect Phil Weiser.
—Kathryn Holland, via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
It is nice that he has done those things. Unfortunately, he has helped destroy law enforcement inn Colorado. His consent decree with Aurora was based upon his a series of incidents that he made racist. His consent decree objective of proportionate arrest and stops is not based upon facts. Studies have shown that black subjects are disproportionately involved in crime. Anyone with common sense would understand that you cannot enforce the laws and make things proportionate at the same time. Weiser is playing the race card for his advancement while jeopardizing your safety. Worse, Weiser has said nothing about the terribly flawed police reform bill that has driven thousands of officers out of the job and caused most of the rest to quit any type of proactive policing. Police leaders, attorneys, and everyone I know, cannot tell you what the new law means when it comes to use of force. Weiser should know this if he has even the slightest idea about law enforcement. I find him to be totally incompetent and self serving.
Race card? Although you are not playing with a full one, looks like you’ve got a deck of race cards.
Miss the old days when you could just choke ’em, tase ’em, or shoot ’em, Don?
Ah, you only know what the headlines say. You won’t ever contribute much with that closed mind. Those who actually do the job don’t think anything like you would like to believe. There are professionals who have tried to improve law enforcement, and in the long run, protect the community. You are cutting your nose off to spite your face. You can’t solve anything if you just want to lump everyone together with the stereotype you have blindly adopted.
That’s BS. I worked in law enforcement (not the police) for many years. What I saw in large jurisdictions was widespread racism. Brutal and indiscriminate. If you were black, you were “n**ggering”, not committing a specific offense. If you were black and in the “wrong” (read: “white”) neighborhood, you were scooped up and dropped somewhere far from home, even though your only sin was being in the “wrong” part of town.
Being black is often the only reasonable suspicion cops need to make your life miserable. Protest all you want, then watch the videos of the casual murders of blacks by white cops. Tell me race isn’t a problem. I’ll laugh in your face.