Cops carried out a 'soft-enforcement operation' this week to eradicate a homeless encampment outside the popular Gathering Place day shelter.
Denver Police Carry Out"Soft" Sweep of Homeless Encampment After Neighborhood Complaints
"There is not a clean up scheduled for that site," said mayor spokesperson Jordan Fuja in a statement toon Monday, after being asked whether a sweep was scheduled to occur at the High Street camp.On Thursday, after all the homeless residents were gone, Fuja said: "There was no enforced clean up at that site. DPD continues to respond to community concerns about ordinance violations.
While police and city officials insist Thursday's soft-enforcement operation wasn't a sweep as the term is typically used, residents in the area and the homeless individuals involved say they feel like it was, and that the DPD should have at least treated it as such. A sweep typically refers to"a hard-enforcement operation," Lucero says, with the main difference being that hard-enforcement requires people at the encampment to leave or be arrested, ticketed or served a court summons.
People living nearby in houses had spent months trying to get the city and Gathering Place to take responsibility for the crime in the area, as well as street conditions.
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