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How the Boulder Police handle Riots and demonstrations; Jann Scott’s Journal
Aug 15th
We are so lucky to live in Boulder. When it comes to big events, football games, demonstrations and all out riots you could not ask for a better Police Department. I am serious about this. There are those few crazy anarchist who hate all police but forget about them.
Look at any CU Buffs football game day. 50 thousand drunken fans party it up all over our city and and Boulder PD is as cool as can be. When we had Kinetics at the Res. 50,000 people would party all day and never a bit of trouble. When the Mall Crawl was in full blast in the late 80’s , 100,000 people would trash the city and Boulder PD maintained.
In 1995, 96 and 97 CU students rioted for fun, nearly burned the hill down and injured 60 Boulder Police officers. 3 injuries were career ending with zero injuries to students. Unbelievable. Then Police Chief Tom Koby called the 1997 riots so extreme that use of deadly force was required but he would not allow it. Students were trying to kill police officers. It was a student riot all over they wanted to get drunk and burn the hill. Seriously, that is what it was about.
The college kids really went off the deep end that year with alcohol. The tried to burn buildings down, stoned the police, set fires all over the hill, threw molotov cocktails at fire fighters. I was there. It was not funny.
Boulder PD attends weekly protests all over the city by leftist groups and they do a fine job of letting things be.
Of course they have decades of experience and lots of training. In the late 60’s things were rough here when students shut down the city over the Vietnam War, but all and all We do well.
What is interesting is we are a community 95% white and rich by by all standards, yet we have many many civil rights protests all over the city. Some lefty white kids can be pretty Agro, but Boulder PD always holds the moral high ground.
Startup Boulder 2013 fueled by alcohol more holyS— from Jann Scott’s Journal
May 17th
pleased with Boulder county Joe Pelle’s backing the NRA’s stance on guns and opposition to Colorado’s new gun laws. “I am really disappointed in him said one police official. ” The NRA are a dangerous group and the prisons are loaded with their kind” …I can’t imagine how Joe is backing them.”
Another hi level Sheriff told me ” You have to know that people who are not all there are attracted to the NRA and extreme gun politics” ” The NRA has been taken over by the radical element ” the Sheriff said. A third Police official and a college instructor in law enforcement told me ” The NRA has changed and so has it’s membership. It used to be that there were a few extremists but since Charlton Heston made that ‘from my cold dead hands comment’ the whole organisation has shifted.
My run in with NRA members last month has led to open police cases by Boulder PD, Sante Fe PD and Gainsville Ga pd as well as ATF and FBI investigations on some pretty crazy NRA members who use social media and the internet to attack people. Sufficed to say that law enforcement nationwide are keeping close tabs on these people. They are currently known as ” conservative christian constitutionalist, tea party, patriots, Republicans”. They used to be know as Militia in the 90s.
The IRS investigates Tea Party and Patriots I am glad they scrutinized this group before handing out non profit status. These people are domestic terrorists. They keep the ATF, FBI, Secret service , and US Marshals plenty busy protecting our president from them.
Startup Boulder Week 2013 fueled by alcohol How the city and Downtown Boulder ever got involved in promoting this drunken convention is beyond me. There is so much drinking going on at this years Start up Boulder , it needs to studied by the city and police. Just yesterday there were over 30 companies in Downtown Boulder handing out free booze all day to anyone who walked in the front door. It was called the Start Up crawl . On the Pearls street mall, Downtown Boulder has a booze tent set up for the entire week. Many of the events are held in bars . There are drinking parties every night. There are drinking breakfasts. What the fuck is going on.? This is supposed to be about Boulder being a business startup community and it has turned into a week long drunk. All that is missing is a Golf tournament.
from the Drinking Capital of America, where there are more alcoholics with engineering degrees than anywhere on earth, where we breed alcoholics, where the city does not give a rats ass, where the health effects are dire
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado