>>> HI, EVERYONE.

WELCOME TO FEBRUARY 4TH, 2022, EDITION OF COLORADO INSIDE OUT.

I'M YOUR HOST DOMINIC DEZZUTTI.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

IT HAS BEEN QUITE A WEEK.

ON MONDAY, THREE OF THE SEVEN DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS HELD A PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS ALLEGATIONS THAT THE NEW FOUR MEMBER MAJORITY ELECTED LAST FALL HAD PRIVATE MEETINGS TO PRESSURE THE CURRENT SUPERINTENDENT TO RESIGN.

MEANWHILE, OVER 1500 TEACHERS CALLED IN SICK ON THURSDAY, CAUSING CLASSES TO BE CANCELLED, IN RESPONSE TO THE NEW BOARD MAJORITY CHANGING THE COUNTY'S EQUITY POLICY, AMONG OTHER ACTIONS.

PATTY CALHOUN, AS ALWAYS WE START WITH YOU.

THE WEEK STARTED WITH A POTENTIAL VIOLATION THAT ENDED WITH A RALLYING CLOSURE, EXTRA SNOW DAY ESSENTIALLY.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE NEXT?

>> WHAT IS GOING TO BE NEXT IS TAPING AT NOON TODAY AND MEETING AT 5:00.

THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS CALLED AN EMERGENCY MEETING AT 5:00.

THAT WAS A VIOLATION OF OPEN MEETINGS.

NOW THE SCHOOL BOARD IS SAYING NO, IT WASN'T.

WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE WILL BE A BOARD MEETING BEFORE THEN.

WHAT WE DO KNOW, THIS BOARD IS INCREDIBLY DIVIDED.

YOU HAD A NEW PROGRESSIVE GROUP IN 2019.

THE MAJORITY THAT ALLEGEDLIED MET TO SAY THEY WANTED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO GO.

THESE THREE LIBERAL MEMBERS ACCUSED THEM OF HAVING THE SECRET MEETING.

THERE ARE FIGHTS GOING ON.

ALL YOU CAN SEE PARENTS ARE UPSET OVER THE MASK MANDATE.

THEY WERE UPSET THE TEACHERS WALKED OUT.

THE TEACHERS ARE UPSET THE SCHOOL BOARD HITTING THE EQUITY POLICY THAT HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

SO DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS EVERYTHING GOING ON.

WE NOW HAVE THE CLERK THROWN IN WITH JENNA GRISWOLD.

DOUGLAS COUNTY IS FULL OF ACTION.

KUDOS FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY JAIL.

GOD A GOOD RECOMMENDATION ON IT.

>> DAVID A MAJORITY ON THE BOARD CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT.

HAVE WE SEEN ENOUGH TRANSPARENCY.

IS THE SUPERINTENDENT A LOGICAL TARGET SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR OVER 25 YEARS.

>> LET'S LOOK AT THE FACTS WE CAN STATE FOR SURE RIGHT NOW.

1500 TEACHERS ILLEGAL WALKED OUT DEPRIVING CHILDREN OF EDUCATION AS WAS COMPLAINED IN A ZOOM MEETING.

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF WHAT THE LOCAL UNION SAID THE KIDS GET ANOTHER SNOW DAY.

EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE EQUALLY BEBIND.

ANOTHER TEACHER SAID MY KIDS ARE FAR BEHIND FROM THIS REMOTE LEARNING AND STUFF AND UNION OFFICIALS CONTINUE WE TRY TO GAIN POWER BACK, AREN'T WE.

THIS IS A COMMON CONFLICT IN SCHOOLS THESE DAYS BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO WANT THE SCHOOLS TO BE RUN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STUDENTS VERSUS THOSE WHO WANT THE BENEFIT OF THE UNION.

THE PROSTUDENT GROUP, CURRENTLY HAS 4-3 MAJORITY OVER THE MORE REGRESSIVE FOLKS.

THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE EQUITY POLICY, I WOULD SAY PEOPLE WOULD LOOK AT THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS ADOPTED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD WHICH THAT IS FIRST OF ALL AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE HORRORS OF SEGREGATION HAS BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE PART OF EVERY CHILD'S EDUCATION IN THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECT.

AT THE SAME TIME THE DIRECT MISSION FREEDOM FROM ANY POLICY OR PRACTICE THAT WRONGFULLY IMPOSES STEREO TYPICAL BELIEFS UPON AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT.

YOU CAN FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT OR FOCUSED ON CREATING STEREO TYPES.

>> ERIK I'LL GOING TO YOU NEXT.

I THINK SOME OF THE DIRECT MOVES FROM THE MEMBER MAJORITY WEREN'T SURPRISING.

HOW IT WENT ABOUT IT AND HOW IT BLEW UP THIS WEEK.

I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS THAT FOR THEIR PREDICTIONS IN 2022.

WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE NEWS WE HEARD THIS WEEK?

>> WELL, BLEW OFF IS THE EXACT WORD.

I POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA EARLY IN THE DAY.

JUST A BRIEF COMMENT AND NOT REALLY TAKING SIDES IN THE ESSENCE OF THE DEBATE.

NOTING 1500 TEACHERS VIOLATES ANY NOTION THAT QUOTE ON QUOTE THIS ABOUT THE KIDS OR THIS IS FOR THE KIDS.

THAT IS THROWING FUEL INTO FIRE.

PASSIONS ARE HIGH ON BOTH SIDES.

THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE MUCH MIDDLE GROUND.

IT IS SYMPTOMIC.

THE EPICENTER OF THESE POLITICAL DEBATES WE ARE HAVING WHETHER IT IS ABOUT RACE AND HOW TO TEACH DIVERSITY AND EQUITY AND HOW MUCH WE WANT TO GET INTO THE CATEGORIZATION THE RACIAL CLASSIFICATION OF PEOPLE, WHETHER IT IS MASK AND RESPONSE TO COVID.

JUST A LAST NIGHT.

WHATEVER YOU MAKE OF THE ISSUE, LAWS ARE LAWS.

TRANSPARENCY ARE TRANSPARENCY.

EVEN IF THEY WANT TO BRING SOMEBODY MORE TO THEIR LIKING THEY NEED TO COMPLY WITH THAT TRANSPARENCY AND THOSE LAWS.

>> JOINING US VIA SKYPE LUCIEL.

IT IS WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU BACK.

IT IS NOT THE ONLY SCHOOL BOARD IN THE METRO AREA, REALLY IN COLORADO TO HAVE HIGHLY POLITICALIZED CAMPAIGN.

DO YOU THINK SOME OF THE THINGS WE ARE SEEING HERE ARE GOING TO START TO BE SEEN IN OTHER DISTRICTS.

>> THERE ARE NOT GOING TO BE AN ALUMNY.

EVEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS WE HAVE SEEN IN PLACE LIKE VIRGINIA.

THE CURRENT CLIMATE, THE ISSUES WE ARE ALL TALKING ABOUT IN OUR DAILY LIVES ARE FOCUSED IN SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW.

IT IS A FLASH POINT IF YOU WILL.

WHEN WE ARE THINKING ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT INTERESTED PARTS HERE.

EVERYONE IS GOING TO SAY THEY ARE ADVOCATING FOR THE KIDS.

THAT IS THE NICE SLO BEGAN WHETHER THAT IS PART OF YOUR PART TITLE.

THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE FRAMING THIS AROUND.

IF WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THINGS STEREO TYPICAL BELIEFS.

IT IS ABOUT FACTS.

IT IS ABOUT FACTS WHAT IS HAPPENING TO PEOPLE'S HEALTH.

IT IS ABOUT RELATED TO WHAT WHERE OUR ACTUALLY HISTORY IS.

IT IS NOT ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE FEEL BAD.

IT IS ABOUT MAKING DECISIONS HOW IT AFFECTS OUR KIDS.

WHEN WE GO BACK TO TRANSPARENCY AS WELL, ERIK BROUGHT THAT PIECE BACK IN.

HOW ARE WE MAKING COLLABORATIVE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEST FOR THE CHILDREN IN THESE DISTRICTS IF WE ARE NOT LOOKING FROM THE FACTS AND GOING FROM THERE.

WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE FEEL GUILTY ABOUT A SET OF FACTS OR WHETHER OR NOT IT IS UNCOMFORTABLE TO NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, WEAR A MASK.

THINGS ARE CHANGING.

NOTHING IS THE SAME EVERY DAY.

AS CASES ARE DIFFERENT.

AS WE CON TO GET FURTHER INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR, WE SHOULD HAVE THAT TRANSPARENCY SO WE CAN MAKE REAL DECISIONS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND NOT BE IN OUR FEELINGS ABOUT THEM.

>>> COUNTIES ACROSS THE METRO AREA JOINED THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER ON FRIDAY IN LETTING MASK MANDATES EXPIRE DUE TO DROPPING POSITIVITY RATES IN COLORADO.

SOME PROOF OF VACCINATION RULES FOR THE VENUES HAVE ALSO BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE, ALTHOUGH SOME PRIVATE COMPANIES ARE KEEPING THE RULES IN PLACE, MEANWHILE, THE CHILDREN'S MUSLIM OF DENVER REOPENED TODAY AFTER CLOSING FOR A WEEK DUE TO ADULT PATRONS REACTING POORLY TO ITS MASK MANDATE.

DAVID, YOU HAVE BEEN OUR MASK EXPERT ALMOST PREPANDEMIC.

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION?

>> USUALLY WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AREN'T INVOLVED THE BEST APPROACH IS FOR THE SMALLEST GROUPS TO MAKE THEIR DECISION.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN DENVER THERE IS NO MASK RULES FOR BUSINESSES ANYMORE.

THIS STATION STILL HAS PEOPLE WEARING MASKS.

THAT'S HIS CHOICE.

I THINK STATEWIDE YOU SEE COUNTIES LIKE DENVER AND JENNIFER COUNTY MOVING TO GET RID OF THEM.

BOULDER WHICH HAS NOD AT THIS POINT, THEY WON'T TALK ABOUT IT UNTIL THE MEETING OF FEBRUARY 18TH.

BOULDER THE CITY IS A PLACE THAT IS SO HEALTH CONSCIOUS THAT IT WON'T LET AN ACTOR SMOKE A CIGARETTE ON STAGE.

YOU REDUCE POLARIZATION WHEN YOU ALLOW MORE CHOICE.

THE BEST APPROACH IS BEING TAKEN BY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51 IN GRAND JUNCTION.

SOME KIDS WANT TO WEAR A MASK AND OTHERS DON'T.

WE KNOW MASKING IS HARMFUL TO LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER FOR SMALL CHILDREN.

SO I THINK THE FIRST THING WE SHOULD GET RID OF IS MASK MANDATES FOR SMALL CHILDRENS IN SCHOOL.

>> IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF COMMUNITIES WILL LET MASK MANDATES GO.

BY AND LARGE THE DENVER METRO AREA EMBRACED THE AREA OF DROPPING IT QUICKLY.

DO YOU FEEL THE POSITIVE RATES HAVE BEEN COMING DOWN ENOUGH.

WERE PEOPLE WERE JUMPING THE GUN?

>> I'M NOT A DOCTOR.

I USED TO BE A SPIN DOCTOR.

THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN SEEING A DOCTOR.

LET ME JUST START OFF BY SAYING SHAME SOME OF TESTIMONY PATRONS WHO ACTED WITH BAD MANNERS AND JUST ENFORCING RULES.

WE CAN ALL DO BETTER THAN THAT.

IN TERMS RELEASING OR RELAXING THE MASK RULES.

MY OBSERVATIONS COMPLY HAS BEEN WAY DOWN.

A LOT OF LOCALES -- I HATE TO REGARD THIS TO SIDES.

THOSE THAT HAVE TAKEN THE RULES AND MANDATES SERIOUSLY AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ANTIMASKERS WILL HAVE TO ADAPT TO A NEW REALITY.

FOR THOSE OF THEM FLUFFING IT OFF DOES NOT MEAN IT IS DONE WITH US.

THERE WILL BE OTHER VARIANTS IN THE FUTURE.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE CAUTION AND ON THE FEAR.

THEY NEED TO RELAX.

THAT IS NOT A PERMANENT CONDITION.

THIS IS A NEW TIME.

IT IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY.

>> THEY WERE GOING TO ALLOW THE MASK MANDATES EXPIRE.

YOU SAW METRO COUNTIES FOLLOW SUIT.

DO YOU THINK DENVER IS SETTING THE TRENDS?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK THE THING WE NEED TO COME BACK TO WE ARE AN INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY.

A LOT OF FOLKS ACROSS THE METRO AREA ARE TRAVELLING HALF AN HOUR OR MORE TO GET TO THEIR JOBS TO GET THEIR KIDS OUT FROM SCHOOL.

SO WE ARE INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITIES.

WE ARE LOOKING AT WHEN WE ARE THINKING HOW TO TRANSLATE WHAT COMING FROM DOCTORS AND RESEARCHERS IN WHAT WE IMPLEMENT.

AS ERIK POINTED OUT WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME PLACE TODAY AS WE WERE IN SIX MONTHS AGO.

SO I THINK WE ALL HAVE TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBLE AND LOOK AT THE FOLKS WHO ARE LOOKING AT THIS DATA EVERY SINGLE DAY.

IT IS NATURAL SOME OF THE OTHER COUNTIES WILL BE LOOKING TO EACH OTHER TO SEE WHERE ARE WE AT?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR WHAT OUR COMMUNITIES INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER.

SPEAKING TO VARIOUS IMPACTS.

WE ARE LOOKING INTO VACCINATIONS.

VACCINATION IS ONE PART OF THIS PUZZLE THAT WE ARE THINKING OF CONSTANTLY AS WE SEE CHANGE TO CHANGE AROUND POLICY AND NOW CONVERSATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN GETTING VACCINES.

OBVIOUSLY, WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT WHICH THAT IS SPEECH AS DAVID MENTIONED EARLIER.

WE WANT TO LOOK AT SICKNESS AND DEATH TOO.

THOSE ARE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE WE CAN'T FORGET ACROSS THE BOARD.

THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE ARE BEING THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THIS.

>> WE ARE PRONE TO MAKING PREDICTIONS SORT OF GO WRONG.

HAVE WE HAVE SEEN THE LAST OF MASKS MANDATES?

>> THERE ARE STILL MANY LETTERS IN THE GREEK ALPHABET.

YOU SAW HOW WE WERE SO EXCITED.

THINGS WOULD BE FINE.

YOU CAN GO OUT TO RESTAURANTS AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THE MASK MANDATES.

RESTAURANTS ARE REALLY SUFFERING.

IT IS PRETTY EASY TO KNOW.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE EATING AND DRINKING UNLESS YOU ARE DOING SO ILLEGALLY.

I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SILVER AND OBSERVANT.

RESTAURANTS IT IS STILL TOUGHER BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT OR DRINK WITH YOUR MASK ON.

SOME OF THOSE WILL CONTINUE THE VACCINATION RULES.

MAYBE SOME BUSINESSES WILL KEEP THEIR RULES ABOUT MASKS.

PEOPLE ARE READY FOR CHANGES.

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IS CHANGE THAT KEEPS PEOPLE CIVIL.

IF THEY WANT TO HAVE AN ARGUMENT OVER MASKS TALK AARON ROGERS.

LET'S FOCUS ON HIM AND NOT ON THE WELL-BEHAVED PEOPLE IN DENVER.

>> HERE HERE.

>>> AFTER A WEEKEND THAT INCLUDED MORE SHOOTINGS AND VIOLENT CRIME IN DENVER, MAYOR MICHAEL HANCOCK ANNOUNCED A NEW CRIME PREVENTION AND REDUCTION ACTION PLAN ON THURSDAY.

WITHIN THE PLAN, UNION STATION, ALONG WITH FOUR OTHER HOT SPOTS HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR INCREASED POLICING.

OTHER FOCUS AREAS INCLUDE YOUTH VIOLENCE, RELEASING OF PREVIOUS OFFENDERS, ILLEGAL GUNS AND AVAILABILITY OF CHEAP DRUGS LIKE METH AND FENTANYL.

ERIK WE START WITH YOU ON THIS ONE.

IT SEEMS LIKE CRIME HAS BEEN THE ISSUE IN 2022.

WHAT IS YOUR TAKE IN THE HEADLINES WE SAW THIS WEEK?

>> I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT.

CRIME IS BECOMING A DOMINATE ISSUE.

BOTH ARE TRYING TO GET ON THE RIDE SIDE OF IT AND BE PROACTIVE ABOUT IT.

WHO KNOWS HOW MUCH A POLITICIAN CAN ACTUALLY MAKE.

I'M HERE 75 MILES AWAY FROM DENVER.

THINGS THAT DEFINITELY CHANGE.

VIOLENT CRIMES IN URBAN AREAS ARE SPIKING.

THE DIALOGUE HAS CHANGED FROM A YEAR AGO.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT DEFUNDING THE POLICE.

AND OTHER SUCH SLOGANS.

EVEN THOSE COMMUNITIES HAVING THAT DISCUSSION A YEAR AGO ARE TAKING A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE.

POLICY DOES MATTER.

WHETHER IT IS REFORMS.

POLICY DOES MATTER.

THIS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO IT.

>> WE CANNOT POLICE OUR WAY OUT OF THE PROBLEM.

AT LEAST WHEN THESE HOT SPOTS THAT THE ACTION PRESENTS.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NEW ACTION PLAN?

>> YOU KNOW, WHAT I THINK WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE DATA.

WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT COMING FROM A PERIOD A LOT OF US, THOSE OF US WHO COULD, THOSE WHO WERE MANDATED TO.

WE ARE AT HOME.

WE SAW RECORD LOW WHEN IT COMES TO CRIME.

NOW THAT FOLKS ARE FEELING THE IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC.

WE HAVE A NEW SET OF CHALLENGES AND NEW ENVIRONMENT PEOPLE ARE WORKING IN.

A NEW ENVIRONMENT CRIME IS OPERATING IN.

WE CAN'T COMPARE THE MOMENT WE ARE IN TO THE MOMENT WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN TWO YEARS AGO.

I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND HERE.

AND AS WE ARE THINKING THE PLAN I DO REALLY ENJOY APPRECIATE THAT IT IS MULTIFACET.

ASSUME EVERY PERSON THAT INTERACTIONS WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS GOING TO HAVE THE SAME CAPACITY, HAVE THE SAME RESOURCES NEGATIVELY ON THE COMMUNITY.

I APPRECIATE IT IS MULTIFACET.

LOOKING TO DENVER AND SEEING PROGRAMS LIKE THE HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM THAT WAS SPEARHEADED HERE AND HAD LOTS OF GREAT FEEDBACK I THINK THAT IS WHERE WE NEED TO FOCUS.

NOT SO MUCH ON THIS YEAR BUT ON THE NEW THINGS WE CAN DO SO YOU ARE TREATING PEOPLE -- WE ARE MAKING PEOPLE FEEL SAFE AND PUSHING FOLKS OUT IN THIS RERIVAL ON A WAR ON CRIME.

WE HAVE TO PAY AS A SOCIETY IN A HUMANE WAY.

IT IS NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL CRIME APPROACH.

>> IS THIS A HOT SPOT ISSUE?

IS THIS A CITY WIDE ISSUE?

>> IT IS BOTH.

THE HOMICIDES WERE HIGHEST IN 40 YEARS.

WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT DENVER'S POPULATION IS LARGER THAN IT WAS.

NOT ONLY IS IT MUCH LARGER THAN IT WAS IN 1981, IT IS ALSO SPREAD OUT.

YOU HAVE DIFFERENT GROUPS SPREADING INTO DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.

IT IS NOT JUST IN ONE NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE.

SOME OF THE VIOLENCE HAVE SPREAD OUT.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT HOT SPOTS LAST YEAR THE CITY FOCUSED ON FIVE HOT SPOTS LAST YEAR.

THEY WERE DONE.

FOUR OUT OF THE FIVE CRIMES WERE DOWN DRATTICLY.

THE ISSUE WHICH THEY WERE NOT BROADWAY.

THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE AT UNION STATION IS THE BUS TERMINAL COMING FROM THE BACK.

THAT IS JUST A REAL CHALLENGE.

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO, WHO ARE IN THE BATHROOM SHOOTING UP.

DENVER POLICE WORKING ON IT.

THAT'S IS WHERE YOU WANT MORE POLICE PRESENCE TO MAKE THINGS AS SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE.

WE HAVE SEEN VIOLENT WAYS BEFORE.

YOU STILL HAVE TO REMEMBER, THE ODDS OF BEING SHOT IN DENVER ARE FAR LOWER THAN HAVING YOUR PACKAGE STOLEN OFF THE PORCH.

>> GOOD POINT THERE.

DO OTHER LAWS NEED TO BE CHANGED?

>> THIS IS NOT A DENVER PROBLEM.

SOME RESENT DATA SHOWS THAT PUEBLO HAS HIGHEST RATES IN THE COUNTRY.

THERE IS A NATIONAL IN COLORADO SURGE IN CRIME INCLUDING VIOLENT CRIME.

ONE DENVER STORE WITH DOWNTOWN OUTLET AND IN FEDERAL BOULEVARD SPIKE FEE.

THE OWNER SAYS WHEN SOMEONE WALKS INTO THE STORY AND HAS A MACHETE THE EMPLOYEES ARE AFRAID.

EVERYBODY'S COSTS ARE GOING UP BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THE CRIMINALS.

THE DENVER GAZSET DID AN EXTRAORDINARY ARTICLE ON THIS.

SUPPOSED TO BE UNDER SOME SUPERVISION BY PAROL.

DENVER'S PROBATION SYSTEM IS UNDERSTAFFED, IT IS UNDERTRAINED.

A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T PERFORMING ADEQUATELY.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HIRE MORE POLICE OFFICERS THEY OUGHT TO PUT MORE BUDGET INTO THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT.

DISGRACE OF THE WEEK.

>> THIS ONE IN AURORA THE HEAD OF THE POLICE UNION THERE WHO IS ALSO AN OFFER SENT A LETTER BACK IN MOVE RIGHT AFTER THE AGREEMENT WITH AURORA HOW THEY WERE GOING TO HANDLE THEIR POLICING AND SEND IT TO ALL THE MEMBERS.

250 PEOPLE GOT THIS LETTER.

LABELING MOST OF THE COMMUNITY AS DRUG ADDICTS, ILLEGAL ALIENS YOU NAME IT.

>> DAVID?

>> SOME PEOPLE SAY THE NEW OLYMPICS ARE AS BAD AS IN GERMANY.

THE GENOCIDE DIDN'T START UNTIL FIVE YEARS LATER.

THE REGIME IN CHINESE IS GENOCIDE.

AND THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE IS GOING ALONG WITH IT JUST FINE.

>> ERIK YOUR DISGRACE OF THE WEEK.

>> REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HAD AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY.

BROUGHT KELLY CONWAY AS HIS ADVISOR.

>> LUCIEL WE GO TO YOU.

>> MY DISGRACE OF THE WEEK IS OUR LACK OF COMMUNAL SUPPORT FOR BOTH TEAMS AND STUDENTS.

WE HAD DOMINIC MENTION SO MANY PARENTS ARE HAVING TO MAKE PLANS FOR CHILD CARE.

WE ARE NOT ABLE TO COVER OUR NEEDS BOTH IN THE CLASSROOM AND OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM.

TEACHERS ARE HAVING TO USE THEIR OWN UNPAID SICK LEAVE DUE TO VARIOUS CHOICES THAT FOLKS ARE MAKING AT THE DISTRICTS AND AT THE STATE LEVEL HOW WE ARE GETTING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.

IT IS NOT OVER.

WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO LEAN IN ON THIS STUFF.

PEOPLE WILL SUFFER.

>> TIME TO SAY SOMETHING NICE.

>> LEAVING THE STATE HOUSE GOING TO THE PENTAGON TO CONTINUE SERVICE IN ANOTHER WAY.

>> DAVID?

>> COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND.

IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS AFFECTED BY FREE SPEECH HERE ARE RESOURCES.

THERE ARE 17 DIFFERENT RESOURCES THEY CAN CALL THAT THEY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED FOR FREE SPEECH.

THERE ARE NUMBERS FOR PROFESSORS.

>> ERIK WE GO TO YOU TO SAY SOMETHING NICE.

>> I KNOW YOU WILL GET READY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO A COLORADOAN WHO PASSED AWAY.

ED BENTON LONG TIME CITY LEADER IN DENVER.

CAME UP FROM NOTHING.

CAME FROM BOOT STRAPS.

JUST A WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER PASSED AWAY EARLIER THIS WEEK.

>> AND LUCIEL WE GO TO YOU.

>> MY SOMETHING NICE IS GOING TO BE REALLY PERSONAL TODAY.

I'M EXCITED TO BE ON THIS PANEL WITH THESE LOVELY FOLKS.

I'M EXCITED FOR LOCAL TELEVISION AT LARGE TO BE COMING BACK AND FINDING NEW WAYS TO DIG IN HERE AS WE ARE ALL ADAPTING TO WHERE WE ARE AT DURING THIS TIME.

>> I WILL SECOND THAT.

THANKS FOR JOINING US IN THIS PANEL.

AS MY FRIEND ERIK MENTIONED YOU MAY HAVE HEARD LAST WEEKEND ABOUT LES PASSING AWAY.

HE WAS THE PRODUCER AND HOST OF OUR ONE AND SPORTS TALK SHOW SPORTS ZONE WE DID IN IN 2004.

HE WAS A FRIEND OF THE STATION IN MANY WAYS.

HE WAS A VOLUNTEER.

HE WAS GREAT TO WORK WITH.

I GOT A CHANCE TO WORK WITH HIM.

AND JUST THE CONSTANT PRO.

YOU SAW ALL THE ACCOLADES FOR A GUY THAT MADE AN IMPACT WHETHER TV, RADIO OR ANYTHING ELSE.

HE WILL CERTAINLY BE MISSED.

AND THAT IS ALL THE TIME WE HAVE FOR COLORADO INSIDE OUT.

FROM EVERYBODY HERE AT PBS12 I'M DOMINIC DEZZUTTI.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING.

GOOD NIGHT.