Denver Police

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Kick ass or die is what the Denver Police Department is all about. It is kill or be killed in this town. The D.P.D. has never been anything but a dangerous gang of vengeful, half-bright cowboys with a vicious reputation for brutality and what the Hell's Angels used to call 'massive retaliation. -Hunter S. Thompson

Scandal and brutality in the Denver Police Department can be traced back as far as the 1960s when twenty three officers were discovered to be involved in a widespread burglary ring which committed over 200 safe crackings that spanned over a decade. [1] Corruption and brutality can be traced on into the 70s around the spying and violent repression of Chicano activists. Despite

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Denver Spy Files

Repression of Activists

• [1] The Lessons of Denver Time Magazine, Nov. 3, 1961.