May 12, 2025 02:26 PM UTC

Liberal Hellhole Keeps Getting Less Terrible

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado Republicans love to talk about crime and how our state (particularly Denver) is a hellhole of crime and violence thanks to Democrats and other heathens. To the thinking of these Republicans, if you haven’t already been stabbed by the time you finish reading this, you should consider yourself lucky.

Unfortunately for Republicans — but good news for everyone else — this narrative keeps running into that old GOP villain: Facts.

As Axios Denver reports:

Preliminary data shows homicides in Denver and Aurora fell in the first three months of 2025, as overall violent crime continued its post-pandemic drop in the nation’s largest cities.

The big picture: Homicides in Denver fell by 58% — significantly higher than the rate of the largest cities in the country, which dropped 21%, per stats compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA).

If you’re still alive and reading along, Denver is actually reducing crime totals by a much faster rate than other big cities. There were 10 reported murders in Denver in the first three months of the year, compared to 24 during the same period in 2024.

Okay, so maybe you’re not likely to be killed within minutes…

…but your car was probably stolen already, right?

Actually, the number of stolen vehicles in Colorado dropped in 2024 for the second consecutive year. From The Denver Post:

Reported car thefts in Colorado decreased 25% from 2023 to 2024, according to a new Colorado State Patrol report released [in April].

In 2024, Colorado faced 24,575 reported stolen vehicles, averaging a per capita rate of 415 stolen vehicles per 100,000 residents, the report said. In 2023, the number of reported stolen vehicles was 32,976, averaging a per capita rate of 560 stolen vehicles per 100,000 residents…

…The report pointed to the governor’s office 2019 creation of the Colorado Department of Public Safety’s Crime Working Group to help tackle auto theft crimes and 2023 state legislative bills to address the rampant crime as reasons for the drop in thefts. [Pols emphasis]

Democrats were in charge of state government in 2023, as they are today. Are Democrats solely responsible for this drop in crime? Of course not. But Colorado has not been burning to the ground, either.

Well, not yet, anyway.