Darcy S- * Congress Park The pittie ban was put in place during a time of high gang activity in Denver. It's real purpose was to curb gang violence first, and public safety second. It's time for it to end! 25Sep Like Reply Norma C- * East Colfax You are barking up the wrong tree . that is the funniest thing I ever heard. Was put in place for the amount of people who are harmed because of pities and badd owners. People don't follow laws now, people didn't follow laws then, people take Responsibility for their actions. It is a very selfish world. Edited 2 days ago Like Reply Davyd S- * Skyland Denver's ban was enacted after the energy industry bust resulted in "migration [that] dramatically changed the population of the city": whites moved out and Latinos moved in. When Aurora, CO, enacted a ban. one of the commissioners stated that she did not want "those sorts of people" moving into her community. Its racist. It always has been. 2daysago Like Reply Scott H. * Hale "On May 8, 1989, 59-year old] Rev. Wilbur Billingsley left his house at 20th Avenue and Emerson Street through a back alley on the way to pick up some groceries. His daughter, Michelle Billingsley. told Denverite that her mother started to worry when he didn't promptly return. She poked her head into the alley and found him on the ground, badly bleeding and still being mauled by a neighbor’s pit bull It had jumped over the fence to attack him. Michelle said the incident put her father in the hospital, and he couldn't walk for some time after he came home. While the bites on his