Denver Tent City Capitol

The move gives the colorado state patrol more leeway to stop graffiti and address encampments on state owned land in denver.

Denver tent city capitol. Denver is authorizing state police to enforce city laws including its urban camping ban in areas around the state capitol and governor s mansion where tents have multiplied in recent weeks. State troopers are asking people in the large homeless encampment. Denver gives state troopers ability to enforce city laws around capitol governor s mansion at polis request. Denver s homeless citizens and their tents are becoming more visible particularly near the capitol after a county judge ruled against the city s urban camping ban and police stopped.

Nearly 10 000 pounds of trash and more than 50 hypodermic needles were collected from one denver tent city sweep in may. It comes as a growing number of people camp out near state owned buildings. No plans currently to address growing tent city near capitol. A city worker sifts through items outside a tent looking for needles as clean up is underway at lincoln park near state capitol.

It s one of about 30 encampments in denver according to a nonprofit that counted tents july 17. But i ve seen other cities handle this more. That s what mayors are for and city councils are for. Denver parks and recreation deputy manager scott gilmore city works during a forced cleanup of encampments at lincoln park across lincoln street from the capitol.

Volunteers with denver homeless out loud took to the streets july 17 and attempted to count every single tent in the city. The squalid vagrant camps outside the capitol building in lincoln park. 10 46 pm mdt july 21 2020.