South Park/Mon March 29/10:20 pm: Officer William Thomas Kohn reports: “I arrived and spoke with victim. He reported that he left his home at around 2000 hours. He returned at around 2220 hours and found his front door slightly open. He entered his home and noticed that his Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation, and several games and CDs were missing from his living room. He went into his bedroom and found that his shotgun, rifle, jewelry, clothing, and hats were stolen. He checked the rest of his home and found that his pit bull puppy was taken also.
“He found the back door open slightly. He went to the back of his house and saw the window on the east side was open all the way up. There was a chest placed against the outside east wall. It was below the window. The chest was out of place. He stated that he spoke with the neighbors to the east, west, and south of his home. None of the neighbors saw or heard anything. The neighbor directly east of his place was home all day. Victim provided the serial numbers for the stolen shotgun and rifle…”
I can’t help it—I just have to say it. And many people will not like what I can’t help saying. But all I can see in this report is one thing: The robbery made the victim’s home safer.
Downtown/Mon March 29/3:32 pm: This report was taken over the phone by Officer Laurie Ross: “At about 2330 hours, the victim began dancing with the suspect. While dancing, the suspect managed to take her phone out of her front pocket without her really feeling him. Apparently while dancing, the suspect’s hand was near her front pocket. Victim realized her phone was gone around 0000 hours or so. She notified the staff at the club, and the dance floor was cleared so that she could try to find her phone, thinking it had fallen out of her pocket. But it wasn’t on the dance floor.
“Victim tried calling her phone several times, and at about 0400 hours on 3/29/10, a male answered her phone. When she asked for her phone back, the suspect began talking gang slang, telling her he was a Crip gang member. Furthermore, the suspect told victim if she wanted her phone back she would have to ‘suck me up.’
“At no point did victim get the suspect’s name or street name. Victim did say that she could ID him. She notified Sprint of the theft, and they discontinued service for that phone.”
The moment I love in this report? The DJ stops the music, colorfully dressed people clear the dance floor, the disco lights are turned off, a bright reality of plain white light disenchants the club, and the victim looks for her phone on the floor. That moment is sad but lovely. 
HOW DARE YOU I OWN A PIT BULL AND I VOMIT INTO MY OWN MOUTH ON A REGULAR BASIS. LET ME TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
I loved the graphic novel instructions for how to defend yourself from Pit Bull fanatics.
hats?
If the only thing Charles can see in a burglary is that “The robbery made the victim’s home safer,” then I can’t wait to hear his enthusiasm for car theft. Or would that be too logical?
sounds like an ignorant cop and a ingnorant d.j man if that cop said that to my face after my dog was stolen i would have to punch him in the face,what a cocksucker…
I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE I WOULD HAVE PUNCHED THAT COP RIGHT IN HIS FACE. YES.
That dog is now likely to be subject to horrific abuse. I support a ban on the breeding of pitbulls, but what happend to that guy is horrible. What is going to happen to that dog is worse. Pitbulls need good homes (without children). If they have good homes they will probably not become vicious. Lets make the breeding of them illegal and allow the ones who are already here to live where they will not be subject to cruelty.
I’m going to assume Charles is talking about the guns and not the dog when he mentions the house being safer, because I find it hard to believe that even the staff at the Stranger are going to be that elated about a puppy being whisked off to some violent end.
@8 Let’s NOT assume Charles is talking about the guns. Do you really believe the guns are in better hands now? What about the safety of the general public?
@9: “The robbery made the victim’s home safer.”
his home, I believe it is inferred, is his house, not the surrounding areas.
I have a lot of experience with shelters. Pit bulls are the most common breed in my city about 30% of all dogs – but they are about 50-60% of dogs in the shelters. They are an even larger majority of abused dogs and neglected dogs. This is because on average pit bulls have crappy owners. You don’t find that many skinny bloodied up golden retrievers.
Any large dog can be unsafe. Large muscular breeds should never be left alone with children, and need to be trained in a way that does not cause aggression. This is not because they are more likely than other breeds to cause aggression, it’s because their bites are deadly.
Point is, ban pits and we will soon have a big rotty problem. Or a big doberman problem, or german shepherd problem.
Denver and surrounding towns inacted pit bull bans – but with no effect on dog bites.
Et tu, Charles Mudede? And for comment #7 by curtisp, why would you support BSL?? Do you realize how many people have pit bulls living with them as loving members of the family?? When pit bulls are outlawed, only outlaws will have pit bulls and that can lead to nothing but animal abuse. These dogs used to be thought of as American heroes. Petey from The Little Rascals was a pit. There was a Pit bull in WW2 named Sgt. Stubby. grow up, haters.