Uzbekistan terror suspect, DUIs dismissed, Honduran pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run
The Denver Crimes Thursday June 29, 2017 email newsletter.
Hi Thursday readers, it's the Denver Post Crimes weekly email newsletter and it's back in your inbox (Did a friend forward this to you? Sign up for yourself over here). How have you been? I've been good, on vacation, spent some time on Ride The Rockies, thanks for asking. It's been a little bit since the last update which means, yes, we've got some ground to cover.
We had a rough month here at Denver Post Crimes: There were extended outages on the DPD's reported crime spreadsheet, followed by a format change on the spreadsheet which meant rewriting chunks of the crime report ingestion, in addition to some extensive debugging and sleuthing before putting together the fixes necessary to get Denver's crime map back up and running.
So the good news: That's in the past. R.I.P. June. Bring it, July.
Denver Crime Stat Shot
What time are most unforced-entry burglaries committed? So glad you asked.
Denver crime news
Yea we've had some news this month. Here are the highlights:
- The largest marijuana bust since Colorado legalized marijuana — netting 62 people — went down this week.
- This case of an Uzbekistan terror suspect who has been held in Colorado for more than five years is attracting international attention. Here's the latest: He might be released today (Thursday).
- The Denver police union's taking the fight to DPD chief Robert White and Deputy Chief Matt Murray.
- Two Denver Sheriff Department deputies were punished for using excessive force on inmates.
- The Honduran man charged in the Capitol Hill hit-and-run death of a young lawyer pleaded guilty to the charge.
- Here's where the $8 million seized by Colorado law enforcement under civil asset forfeiture rules went.
- Dozens of pending driving under the influence cases and prior convictions are now in legal limbo in Summit County after Judge Edward Casias deferred to a new statewide precedent that bars the use of blood alcohol testing machine results as evidence.
- Colorado's got a new domestic violence fatality review board
- An update in the clown-with-knife-fingers case: Man who wore demonic clown makeup charged with murder in death of homeless man.
City of Denver crime count update
These are the latest crime statistics comparing City of Denver crime from this point in 2016 with 2017 so far:
- Reported violent crime is up 13.2% (1,915 so far in 2017, 1,692 until this date in 2016)
- Property crime is down 2.0% (10,976, 11,196)
- Domestic violence is up 4.0% (1,082, 1,040)
- Sex assault is up 23.6% (340, 275)
- Robberies are down 3.4% (505, 523)
- Burglaries are down 13.0% (1,872, 2,151)
- Car thefts are up 0.2% (2,121, 2,116)
- Bike thefts are down 9.5% (484, 535)
- Drug crimes are down 11.8% (2,065, 2,340)
New on Denver Post Crimes
All lists of Denver neighborhoods on the site now have sparkline charts showing month-by-month numbers on the violent crimes reported in that neighborhood.
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— Joe
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