COMMENT BY
joey from Lakewood, CO
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Denver, CO
COMMENT
well....
some pople know about edgewater and well ..... some dont. some people dismiss it as a wannabe place and its not. edgewater has crime, just like any other urban neighborhood in a big city of three million people. so let the stats represent what its like. the neighborhood is only about 5,000 people, meaning there really should not be much crime at all. however, the crime in edgewater per 100,000 people is as follows: 6,704 incidents, 18.8 murders, 188.3 robberies, 263.7 assaults, 508.5 burglaries, 4,821 thefts, 885.1 vehicle thefts. those are quite high for a neighborhood consisting of 5,000 people. also, what a lot of people dont know is that just south of edgewaters border is the scummy lakewood area of west colfax called EDGWWOOD. meaning, its part of edgewater and lakewood at the same time. and let me tell you that along west coflax ave between teller st. and sheridan blvd in edgewood aint no joke. plenty and plenty of robberies and vehicle thefts happen every other day. i love living urban so i enjoy it but plenty of people will not. edgewater/ edgewood is just like living in any big city. when i lived in edgewater/edgewood for 4 years, i can recall murders. such as in 2006 when the police had to shoot the liquor store robber off 20th and lamar st. or when that young latino kid was gunned down on 18th and kendall in those 4 white project buildings. or, when that bum murdered that older latino man off 25th and harlan and when the cops had to shoot another gang memeber after robbing a liquor store off 17th and sheridan. so yes, plenty of crime happens here but its just like any other big city neighborhoods. i researched and in the last ten years, there have been 8 gang related murders in the edgewater neighborhood. may not sound like much, but it is a lot considering the fact that edgewater is only 5,000 people. if edgewater were 100,000 people then that would mean that in the last 10 years there would have been 160 gang related murders in edgewater. edgewater aint no joke and crime does happen. but it is to be expected in a big city. the schoosl are pretty damn bad with jefferson, lumberg, and edgewater, all haveing roughly 85% free/reduced lunch. gang membership is in edgewater/edgewood. if the edgewood crime stats were included with edgewater, then the crime stats would be even higher with plenty of crime happening on west coflax ave between teller st and sheridan blvd.