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1/25/2010
Wow ! that's an interesting posting. I am very familiar with Edgewater and I researched almost everything you've said and almost everything you said is completely FALSE. For example ...... your reference to the crime statistics are completely untrue and misleading, I see where your going by trying to imagine IF Edgewater was a 100,000 person city and multiplying everything. Even with that bizarre way of looking at it, you are still wrong ! Why don't you just say it for what it is. For example Edgewater reported the following to CBI (Colorado Bureau of Investigations) in 2008. 482 total incidents, 0 murders , 0 Sex Assaults, 5 robberies, 43 Assaults( only 6 by hands or feet and 0 with gun or knife), 29 Burglaries, 31 vehicle thefts and 252 thefts. this isn't even close to what you claim of "6,704 incidents, 18.8 murders, 188.3 robberies, 263.7 assaults, 508.5 burglaries, 4,821 thefts, 885.1 vehicle thefts".
Also you mention Edgewood and say it is part of Edgewater, when in fact it is a name of a Lakewood neighborhood and it is in the city limits of Lakewood. It is called Edgewood because it is on the northeast border of Lakewood, hence Edgewood.
West Colfax is a joke when it comes to high crime and danger. I'd walk up down that street day and night and don't have the slightest worry. It is a Joke.
you refer to Edgewater as "urban" Edgewater is a tiny bedroom community. It is far from being urban, it's what we call a suburb.
I researched all these gang killings you speak of.... Hmm? .. Looks like there has been only 1 murder since 2003. And those police shootings were other police agencies (IE Lakewood) shooting people outside Edgewater.
It seems to me since Edgewater has ABSOLUTELY NO STREET CREDIT your trying to build street credit for it on the internet of all things. SORRY, Edgewater has always been a backward Podunk little town and always will be. I think your a little delusional and need to travel outside sheltered Colorado and go visit somewhere that is actually "no Joke". No matter how much you try to hype Edgewater up as some Urban slum it will never be and will always be the safe little town it is.
Anthony | Denver, CO