Violent crimes overall rose in Denver by 5% in 2024 over the previous year, but Mayor Johnston doesn’t like to talk about that.
Instead, Johnston nit-picks at a couple of numbers to try and paint a rosy picture.
Like when he declared in his annual report last week that non-fatal shootings are down by 22%.
It’s just bizarre Johnston would boast that 22% of would-be murderers missed their target, like they failed to take lessons, or get better training before launching their criminal career.
The media are quick to glorify those nuggets of information intended to mislead, mostly because it involved guns — and a Democrat politician.
And yet it was Westword who pulled back the curtain to give us the true state of the city after a brutal stabbing spree of a habitual criminal who killed two people and wounded two others on the 16th Street Mall last weekend.
Yes, murders are down, but not attempted murders, shootings, stabbings and other violent acts.
Westword reports:
There were 6,450 reports of violent crimes in Denver in 2024, up from 6,416 the year before.
Here’s the dashboard.
Westword is reporting that violent crime was up in Denver in 2024 compared to 2023.
If that is true, then 2024 would be the 2nd highest year for the number of violent crimes in Denver in history.#copolitics https://t.co/Kd8JQaLbpN— Mr T 2 (@GovtsTheProblem) January 14, 2025
Westword also reports that 65 violent crimes were reported within one block of the mall over the past six months between Wewetta and Broadway from 15th to 17th streets.
But Johnston doesn’t talk about that.
Nor is he talking about the criminal history of the suspect arrested by police, 24-year-old Elijah Caudill from northwest Denver.
Caudill has been arrested 15 times since he turned 18 that includes two charges of sexual assault, robbery, theft, menacing and criminal mischief, reports the Denver Gazette.
But Johnston won’t talk about that, either.