# @denverpost on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLCx_kUMkU0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31472175-denverpost-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-18T13:15:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Denver Post (@denverpost) — https://gondola.cc/denverpost

## Caption

The 16th Street mall has become a lightning rod in the debate about Denver’s downtown: whether it is safe, whether it is pleasant, whether it is worth visiting. ⁠
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The corridor has been criticized for public drug use, homelessness and, at times, violence: an attacker killed two people and wounded two others in a spree of unprovoked stabbings along the mall in January.⁠
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In April, Mayor Mike Johnston announced a new police focus on the street: a 10-member team of bicycle and horse-mounted officers patrolling the area between 14th and 18th streets, from Union Station to Broadway.⁠
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To learn more about the people police are encountering in this high-profile corridor, The Denver Post spent eight hours over two days in May following two members of that detail. Here’s what we saw.⁠
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Read the full story at the link in our bio.⁠
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📝: Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post⁠
📷: Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post // helenhrichardson⁠
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#denver #16thStreet #crime #DowntownDenver #colorado #denvercolorado

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denver, colorado, 16thstreet, denvercolorado, crime, downtowndenver

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