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Speaker 2: Welcome back to hour two of the Dan Caplass Show.
Speaker 2: You got well, Kenny Sheriff, Steve Reims setting in again.
Speaker 2: I'm on day two for Dan. I'll be here again
Speaker 2: with you tomorrow again. We're an hour two of day two.
Speaker 2: Kind of a fun time and in the first hour
Speaker 2: had a couple I had a couple of sheriffs on
Speaker 2: our sheriff candidate and a shriff from Masa County. We've
Speaker 2: been talking about do you feel safer in Colorado? Do
Speaker 2: you think do you think that this state is getting better?
Speaker 2: Is it a better place for you to live than
Speaker 2: it was a year ago or five years ago? Is
Speaker 2: this state going in the right direction or is it
Speaker 2: falling apart? And you know I pose that question to
Speaker 2: you still, So if you want to text in, text
Speaker 2: Dan at five seven, seven, three nine, or you can
Speaker 2: call in at three O three seven one three eight
Speaker 2: two five five. The text line you guys have been
Speaker 2: lighting it up, and I want to. I want to
Speaker 2: go to this text definitely, because the way it's written
Speaker 2: is it tells you where we're at in the state
Speaker 2: of Colorado, and it says, maybe don't read this one
Speaker 2: on air, but I'm going to because it makes a
Speaker 2: very good point and there's no cuss words in it.
Speaker 2: It says, can the FBI, ATF for the US Marshalls
Speaker 2: act as an intermediary to transfer illegals from local custody
Speaker 2: to federal custody? And the simple answer to that is yes.
Speaker 2: Under the Trump administration, every federal agent, whether they're FBI, ATF,
Speaker 2: Homeland Security, it doesn't matter. They were all told that
Speaker 2: they're ICE agents first, because that is the primary mission
Speaker 2: of the new administration, the Trump administration. The interesting part
Speaker 2: and the reason I read that on air isn't because
Speaker 2: I want to flaunt that to the Democrats down at
Speaker 2: the State House, but I want to make a point.
Speaker 2: If ICE is the big evil enemy, and you say, okay, well,
Speaker 2: anybody that has ICE powers, you would basically be telling
Speaker 2: the state of Colorado, we don't want the help of
Speaker 2: the FBI, the ATF, the US martials, all of those
Speaker 2: functions that are very critical to federal law enforcement in
Speaker 2: the state of Colorado, to making sure that the federal
Speaker 2: courts are maintained properly, to making sure that you know,
Speaker 2: these gun laws that the Democrats keep passing have some
Speaker 2: kind of backing for you know, atf checks and those
Speaker 2: kind of things. So you know, you can't have it
Speaker 2: both ways. So if you want to limit ICE, you
Speaker 2: better limit them all, or maybe just say, hey, ICE
Speaker 2: has a mission and they're fulfilling that mission and the
Speaker 2: people in the state of Colorado probably benefit from that.
Speaker 2: Another text here, Steve, if I have a CHP, does
Speaker 2: that qualify me to purchase a semi auto under the
Speaker 2: new law or do I still still need the new
Speaker 2: classes as required by Senate Build three. These two laws
Speaker 2: are independent of each other. The CHP stuff that is
Speaker 2: currently on the books in the state of Colorado is
Speaker 2: independent of Senate Buil three. Senate Bill three requires you
Speaker 2: to go through a whole new process, So you got
Speaker 2: to come down, do a background, go take a gun
Speaker 2: safety class. You can take a lets class if you
Speaker 2: have some previous firearms training, basically a hunter safety course,
Speaker 2: but you still have to go take a class. And
Speaker 2: again I didn't write the law. I don't like the law.
Speaker 2: I wish it would go away. I don't think it's constitutional.
Speaker 2: But you asked the question. I'm trying my best to
Speaker 2: answer it. A couple more texts. This textter says, I
Speaker 2: definitely do not feel safer and way less free in Colorado.
Speaker 2: I've been in Colorado since ninety three, and now I
Speaker 2: am retired and I have time to enjoy the beauty
Speaker 2: of the state. I am seriously considering leaving, though, thanks
Speaker 2: to the leftist policies in this state. I think I
Speaker 2: caught that one earlier. Let's see here, spent the nineties
Speaker 2: working and living in Denver. This thing keeps jumping. I
Speaker 2: spent the nineties working and living in Denver, enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: In thirteen, twenty thirteen, after observing what was happening in
Speaker 2: the state, my intuition told me to buy more guns.
Speaker 2: Ammo on train extensively. Twenty fifteen started they started writing
Speaker 2: the capitol abouts of illegal immigration. Today we can see
Speaker 2: that instincts were absolutely correct and avoiding Denver unless absolutely necessary,
Speaker 2: which I assume a lot of you are doing. I
Speaker 2: don't think a lot of people say Denver's the place
Speaker 2: I want to go hang out for the weekend, but
Speaker 2: some of you may if you've got free Rockies tickets
Speaker 2: or whatever. I don't know if anybody pays for those anymore.
Speaker 2: This one's actually positivele Dan. I live in the suburbs.
Speaker 2: I feel good about my life. I don't feel unsafe.
Speaker 2: I know that in many areas it is worse, and
Speaker 2: I still think we need to get tougher on crime, boy,
Speaker 2: don't we. And then another Texter, Chief new Banks, from
Speaker 2: the town of Mead, which is in Weld County, wrote
Speaker 2: a letter, sent it down to the state capitol and
Speaker 2: posted on social media. It's against most of the bills
Speaker 2: that are being proposed, and the Texter says it's a
Speaker 2: very interesting read. I work with Chief new Banks quite often.
Speaker 2: He's a good guy down there in the town of Mead.
Speaker 2: I think that kind of covers it for us here. Oh,
Speaker 2: we do have one from Alexa. It says I grew
Speaker 2: up and worked in downtown for many years. I never
Speaker 2: was really concerned for my safety until the two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine summer of violence in downtown Denver. It is
Speaker 2: really sick that politicians care more about an image than safety.
Speaker 2: After four people were stabbed downtown. A few months ago.
Speaker 2: Mayor Mikey told us how safe and vibrant Denver is
Speaker 2: going to be. I encouraged everybody to go back down there,
Speaker 2: and I don't think Alexa agrees with that. She says
Speaker 2: complete lies. I no longer feel safe, you know. And
Speaker 2: I guess one last one here says glad you're back
Speaker 2: on the radio.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: Colorado started going downhill when marijuana was legalized. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: question is are you looking at two thousand or twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: because two thousand is when medical marijuana was actually legalized
Speaker 2: in the state. Twenty thirteen is when recreational marijuana came
Speaker 2: in at the start of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: I think both.
Speaker 2: Were bad marks for the state of Colorado, but regardless,
Speaker 2: it's the state we live in. One more just rolled
Speaker 2: in the frequency of use of legit law is irrelevant.
Speaker 2: The Enemy Alien Act of seventeen ninety eight is still
Speaker 2: a valid law. Has it ever once been challenged? How
Speaker 2: long has murdered been on the books. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: exactly where that text is going, but I think the
Speaker 2: the idea is, you know, using the Alien Enemies Act
Speaker 2: is probably well, it may be controversial and has been
Speaker 2: temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court or put on pause.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people out there say, you
Speaker 2: got to do something. You know, there's there's no way
Speaker 2: that we can just allow the country to have eleven
Speaker 2: million unvetted folks that have invaded the country, especially when
Speaker 2: they're associated with designated terror organizations like Trenda a RAG
Speaker 2: or MS thirteen, which are also in most of our communities,
Speaker 2: even in Wild County, we're seeing the effects of those
Speaker 2: two criminal organizations, either through drug trafficking, human trafficking, you
Speaker 2: name it. Who knows there's a good possibility that that
Speaker 2: crime release or that press release I read at the
Speaker 2: very start of hour one. You know, it wouldn't it
Speaker 2: be ironic if those folks were tied back to some
Speaker 2: kind of illegal gang, illegal gang type. But in this
Speaker 2: how we're going to continue to focus on the perspective
Speaker 2: of is Colorado better now than it was a year ago,
Speaker 2: five years ago? Can it come back under Democrat policy?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Can Colorado get right again if you will? And I
Speaker 2: don't mean that as in political, but can it get
Speaker 2: to the place where people feel safe again? Can we
Speaker 2: get off of the ten most worst lists? Out there
Speaker 2: for everything. You know, we've got the highest crime rates
Speaker 2: in many different categories. We got krthf's off the charts.
Speaker 2: We have people just don't feel safe going into the
Speaker 2: major metropolitan areas. Can we get off those lists? With
Speaker 2: Democrats continuing to remain in charge, and especially with a
Speaker 2: governor's election coming up in less than two years, you
Speaker 2: know we're gonna We're going to get a new governor,
Speaker 2: whether we like it or not. I think most of
Speaker 2: the people listening to this show are saying anything but
Speaker 2: poll us, but they have been it to look forward
Speaker 2: to potentially or or feel wiser. Is that an improvement?
Speaker 2: I would argue that it probably is not. But maybe
Speaker 2: this is the time for a Republican candidate to come up,
Speaker 2: and maybe the voters in this state have said, Okay,
Speaker 2: the direction we're going is bad enough. I know that
Speaker 2: most of you listening out there believe we've hit rock bottom.
Speaker 2: But do the people on the other side of the aisle,
Speaker 2: do the unaffiliated voters. I don't know how anybody can
Speaker 2: drive through Denver and say this is a better place.
Speaker 2: But then again, maybe they came from California, maybe they
Speaker 2: came from Seattle. So Denver doesn't look so bad.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: A couple more texts and then we'll go to break,
Speaker 2: says sheriff should in twenty four years of military service,
Speaker 2: with multiple deployments to combat zones, kuint of sufficient training
Speaker 2: to buy firearms.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it should.
Speaker 2: I think you've probably covered everything, but this bill will
Speaker 2: say otherwise. In fact, those people would probably say that
Speaker 2: you're dangerous because you have military service and you've used
Speaker 2: you've used firearms and combat zones, and so you're probably
Speaker 2: a weapon of war by their definition.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just it's sad to see where the state's going.
Speaker 2: It's not in a positive direction in my mind. But
Speaker 2: when we come back from break, we're going to have
Speaker 2: Sheriff Darren Weekly on from Douglas County. He's going to
Speaker 2: talk to us about his from a guy who's much
Speaker 2: closer right here to the Denver metro area than even
Speaker 2: I am. So we'll cut to break again. You're listening
Speaker 2: to the dan capla show hosted by Well County Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Raams here on six point thirty k how we'll
Speaker 2: be back with Darren Weekly from Douglas County.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show Podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan capla show hosted by Well
Speaker 2: County Sheriff Steve raams As. Dan's out doing some important
Speaker 2: work on behalf of his clients, but got a chance
Speaker 2: to take the driver's seat. As I told you before
Speaker 2: we went to break, we're going to have Sheriff Darren
Speaker 2: Weekly from Douglas County on with us. Now again, Darren's
Speaker 2: one of those guys that I work with quite often,
Speaker 2: but we're going to have him on to talk about
Speaker 2: his perspective of crime in Colorado. Sheriff Weekly, are you
Speaker 2: with us?
Speaker 5: I am thanks for having.
Speaker 2: Me you bet, Darren, and it's a pleasure to have
Speaker 2: you on the show. I know that you're pretty well
Speaker 2: known in the Denver metro area as you there are
Speaker 2: the sheriff of Douglas County. But let's talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about your background. What drew you to law enforcement,
Speaker 2: what made you want to do the job of shriff,
Speaker 2: and how did you get to this spot.
Speaker 5: Well, I've wanted to be a cop ever since I
Speaker 5: was a little kid. I always looked up to law
Speaker 5: enforcement officers and they were just my heroes growing up.
Speaker 5: And you know, I don't know what specifically it was,
Speaker 5: but I just always admired them, you know, be honest
Speaker 5: with you, I'm kind of the black sheep in my
Speaker 5: family being a law enforcement officer. My dad was not
Speaker 5: on the right side of the law for for a
Speaker 5: lot of different reasons. But yeah, when I was younger,
Speaker 5: I got involved in the Explorer program with the Cherry
Speaker 5: Hills Police Department. And this was back in the late
Speaker 5: eighties and just just my my love of law enforcement
Speaker 5: only grew from there. And then, you know, shortly after
Speaker 5: high school, you know, college was not available to me,
Speaker 5: just because I was kind of having to make my
Speaker 5: own way through life and my own bills. So I
Speaker 5: went through the Rapple Community College Police Academy, you know,
Speaker 5: on my own dime and had a full time job.
Speaker 5: And after I got done with the academy, I became
Speaker 5: a reserve police officer at Cherry Hills. And back then,
Speaker 5: and this is like nineteen ninety three time frames, you know,
Speaker 5: nobody was hiring in the devernmental area. Yep, yeah, yeah, please,
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean there'd be you know, a couple
Speaker 5: hundred applicants for every single open position, and you know,
Speaker 5: obviously times have change, But I was reserved for Cherry Hills,
Speaker 5: just kind of patiently waiting for a full time position.
Speaker 5: And then Douglas County called me from nowhere and they
Speaker 5: were looking for somebody that could still pass for a
Speaker 5: high school student. And I got hired by Douglas County
Speaker 5: to do twenty one jump streets and put me undercover
Speaker 5: in one.
Speaker 3: Of the high schools.
Speaker 5: And I did that for almost a full school year,
Speaker 5: and then you know, got out on full time and
Speaker 5: you know, I've done just about everything there is to do,
Speaker 5: you know, at a sheriff's office, and I've just I've
Speaker 5: just been very blessed in my career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our careers are quite a bit a mirror image
Speaker 2: of each other in a lot of ways in our
Speaker 2: path up through the agency. So I respect the heck
Speaker 2: out of your career path through Douglas County. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna assume your family wasn't necessarily highly supportive of you
Speaker 2: chasing a career in law enforcement. Is that Is that accurate?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, my dad kind of resented it. He's passed
Speaker 5: on now, but he my dad was he was a criminal,
Speaker 5: and you know, him and my mom separated when I
Speaker 5: was pretty young. My mom raised me, you know, by herself.
Speaker 5: She was a single parent, and my dad just he
Speaker 5: was not there for us. And when I decided to
Speaker 5: go on in that career path, he thought I did
Speaker 5: it to spite him. But you know, I just I
Speaker 5: just did it because I had a pass and for
Speaker 5: doing good and and helping people that needed help and
Speaker 5: saving people. And you know, it's you know, I'm just
Speaker 5: blessed to be in a sign of work. I've just
Speaker 5: I've always looked at law enforcement as the heroes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, well, I think, you know, I think highly of
Speaker 2: the work that law enforcement monsters around the state do.
Speaker 2: But let's let's boils down to the topic. I've been
Speaker 2: asking our listeners and callers today. Do you think that
Speaker 2: Colorado is safer today than it was a year ago,
Speaker 2: or five years ago, or ten years ago. And I'll
Speaker 2: rephrase that a little bit differently to you. Is your
Speaker 2: job easier now in the current climate in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: or has the job gotten exponentially harder since you entered
Speaker 2: into law enforcement back in the late eighties early nineties,
Speaker 2: depending on you when you call your career officially starting.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: I'm a Colorado native I grew up in southeast Denver.
Speaker 5: This job is I started almost thirty two years ago.
Speaker 5: This job is nothing like it was thirty two years ago.
Speaker 5: In some ways, law enforcement is adapt that it's grown
Speaker 5: and it's gotten better. But the state of Colorado in
Speaker 5: and of itself, it's just in terms of crime, it's
Speaker 5: just tanked and this state is less safe than it
Speaker 5: ever was. I pride myself on being the sheriff of
Speaker 5: Douglas County and keeping crime out of my county. We're
Speaker 5: still playing defense right. But the large, the large metro
Speaker 5: agencies like Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs, they're just doing everything
Speaker 5: that they can to keep their head above water and
Speaker 5: just trying to apprehend, you know, the serious offenders and
Speaker 5: just do their job. But this state is just it's,
Speaker 5: I don't know how to better describe it. It's it's
Speaker 5: not the state that I grew up in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely have job security if you're working in
Speaker 2: law enforcement and in this state, but it's sometimes against
Speaker 2: the will of the state legislature. So I'll go to
Speaker 2: the next question. I've been asking a lot of our folks.
Speaker 2: Do you think that this state can turn around under
Speaker 2: the control of a Democrat governor and or a Democrat legislature.
Speaker 5: No, it's gonna unless we get some more moderate Democrats
Speaker 5: in there, or we can take the governor's office and
Speaker 5: get a Republican in there, we're going to keep going
Speaker 5: down the same path.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I have heard things like there's there's some wealthy moderate
Speaker 5: Democrats that are trying to get moderate Democrats in our
Speaker 5: legislature because our state has just turned so far left.
Speaker 5: And you know, I often talk to people, you know,
Speaker 5: they're like, oh, they're trying to California, cake Colorado, and
Speaker 5: I have family in California. Colorado is far worse than
Speaker 5: California right now. And so for people to not realize
Speaker 5: that and realize how far we've gone, you know, it's
Speaker 5: it's everybody's got their their political opinions, whether you're left,
Speaker 5: whether you're right. But we've got so far left and
Speaker 5: some of the legislation, and every year where I think
Speaker 5: it can't get worse, it gets worse. Yeah, And so
Speaker 5: we just need to get some moderates in there, or
Speaker 5: get a Republican governor that can start betilling some of
Speaker 5: these bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've been covering the show here for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: And you know, we had some audio on yesterday about
Speaker 2: Michael Bennett saying that he doesn't want Colorado to become California,
Speaker 2: and it's it's so ironic that you just made the
Speaker 2: statement that California may be in a better place than
Speaker 2: Colorado is. And I said that to a lot of folks.
Speaker 2: I think we're we're farther away from the turnaround, although
Speaker 2: it could possibly happen faster in this state just because
Speaker 2: of population size.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think we may be farther down the down the
Speaker 2: line of liberal policies and even the state of California.
Speaker 2: And as a law enforcement guy, it's got to drive
Speaker 2: you nuts, am I correct.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 5: It's just very frustrating. I mean, you and your staff
Speaker 5: have to go through the same thing mine do. And
Speaker 5: every single year we go through legislative updates which we
Speaker 5: have to do to keep our post certificate. And every
Speaker 5: single year I look at the cops in the room
Speaker 5: and it just looks because they're trying to I mean,
Speaker 5: most cops, despite what you may think you know from
Speaker 5: from from our legislature that to have you believe all
Speaker 5: cops or biased, or have you know anything like that.
Speaker 5: Most cops or they're honest men and women just trying
Speaker 5: to do a good job and serve and protect their community,
Speaker 5: putting their lives on the line every single day, and
Speaker 5: then for them every single year to add to go
Speaker 5: to the legislative updates and hear about what they can't do,
Speaker 5: what they can't say.
Speaker 3: It's just it's.
Speaker 5: Very disheartening and it's hard work. When you go put
Speaker 5: your life on the lane every day and you get
Speaker 5: made to feel like you're the bad guy and that
Speaker 5: your legislature thinks you're the problem. It's tough, and it's
Speaker 5: tougher and tougher to find good people that want to
Speaker 5: do the shop. We get applications all day. I'm sure
Speaker 5: you guys do it too, sure that they want to
Speaker 5: do our job. But to find the ones that really
Speaker 5: should be in this line of work, that can pass
Speaker 5: our background, our polygraph, our p SSYDE tests, that really
Speaker 5: want to do the job for the right reasons, those
Speaker 5: folks are getting tougher and tougher to find because the
Speaker 5: stakes are so high.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a motto inside our agency we want
Speaker 2: the best ten that we can hire, not the first ten.
Speaker 2: And sometimes just finding ten is very difficult, So Darren,
Speaker 2: I couldn't I couldn't thank you more for being on
Speaker 2: with us. Your perspective is very valuable in this state.
Speaker 2: We had Sheriff ral On earlier. You guys share a
Speaker 2: lot of the same comments. Again, thanks for being on
Speaker 2: the show, Darren. You represent Douglas County well and I
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. You're listening to the Dan capless Show
Speaker 2: here on six point thirty k how with will unty
Speaker 2: Sheriff Steve Raams setting in. We'll be back in just
Speaker 2: a few short seconds after this break.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. You're listening to
Speaker 2: well Kunty Sheriff Steve Raims filling in for Dan on
Speaker 2: day number two three. I'll be back with you tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but in this segment, I want to really open it
Speaker 2: up to the callers and the texters again. The text
Speaker 2: line is five seven seven three nine starts your text
Speaker 2: off with Dan or call in at three oh three
Speaker 2: seven one three eight two five five. Yesterday we had
Speaker 2: quite a bit of engagement from you guys talking about
Speaker 2: your your opinion of illegal immigration, today, I'm asking you,
Speaker 2: do you feel safer in Colorado than you did a
Speaker 2: year ago or five years ago? The state going in
Speaker 2: the right direction? Or is it going in the wrong direction?
Speaker 2: And if it is going in the wrong direction, like
Speaker 2: I believe, can it be turned around by the same
Speaker 2: people that have driven it there? Which I lay this
Speaker 2: solely at the feet of the Democrat left and the
Speaker 2: governor's office, whether that's Polis or hicken Looper. It hasn't
Speaker 2: been an overnight process, but it's been a fast one,
Speaker 2: and I don't think it turns around under this same leadership.
Speaker 2: So when you're talking about a Michael Bennett or somebody
Speaker 2: like that running, I think it only gets worse. He
Speaker 2: says he doesn't want Colorado to become California too late,
Speaker 2: that it might actually be an improvement at this point.
Speaker 2: So yesterday, towards the end of the show, I think
Speaker 2: it was Joe Fromarvada that called in and he mentioned
Speaker 2: an incident that happened in Weld County that I don't
Speaker 2: talk about a lot because it's pretty personal to me,
Speaker 2: but because it was asked and we were talking about
Speaker 2: illegal immigration yesterday. Today we're talking about crime in Colorado.
Speaker 2: This thing hits both.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 2: On September eighteenth of twenty twenty two, in Weld County,
Speaker 2: one of my deputies, jail Deputy Deputy Lexis Highnotes, was
Speaker 2: riding her motorcycle into work. She was working the night shift.
Speaker 2: And it's about six o'clock in the evening or a
Speaker 2: little before that, I guess about five thirty in the evening.
Speaker 2: She's only about a mile away from the Weld County
Speaker 2: Jail and a motorist pulls out in front of her
Speaker 2: in a little mini van. And she's doing everything right,
Speaker 2: she's falling the speed limit, she's not doing anything wrong,
Speaker 2: just riding her motorcycle into work. This motorist pulls out
Speaker 2: in front of her. She strikes us side of his
Speaker 2: vehicle with her motorcycle and she's killed instantly because of
Speaker 2: the speed of the crash. And you know, it just
Speaker 2: it didn't go well for her, obviously. The driver of
Speaker 2: that vehicle was an illegal alien named Norberto Garcia Gonzalez,
Speaker 2: thirty seven year old male. He proceeded to get out
Speaker 2: of that van and run through a cornfield like a
Speaker 2: coward and fled the scene. Never rendered any aid to Alexis,
Speaker 2: who was laying on the ground, bleeding and dying, and
Speaker 2: this cruel and heart this idiot that pulled out in
Speaker 2: front of her, fled the scene and went on the run.
Speaker 2: To summarize the story, we the Wellcunny Sheriff's Office in
Speaker 2: the Colorado State Patrol through a ton of resources at
Speaker 2: this incident because it did involve one of our own.
Speaker 2: And I got questioned by a few people in the
Speaker 2: community of would we have responded to every call that way?
Speaker 2: And I can tell you we would have responded to
Speaker 2: every call that way, whether it been a deputy involved
Speaker 2: or not. Had if we were able to respond that
Speaker 2: quickly and have a chance at catching the suspect, yes
Speaker 2: we would use the same resources. But we spent about
Speaker 2: twenty four hours chasing this coward down and we finally
Speaker 2: caught him at a househover in Fort Collins. And to
Speaker 2: tell you that that was an easy process would be
Speaker 2: a lie. My detectives did yeoman's work and worked throughout
Speaker 2: the hours along with alongside the Colorado State Patrol detectives
Speaker 2: who assisted on the case as well. We were able
Speaker 2: to get this guy in custody and lo and behold,
Speaker 2: would find out that he had a criminal record. Believe
Speaker 2: it or not, he had been revoked for two prior
Speaker 2: to UI incidents. One of those that had also required
Speaker 2: that he was supposed to turn himself into jail nine
Speaker 2: years earlier, but instead of doing that, he just decided
Speaker 2: that he would change his name. So he assumed a
Speaker 2: false name of Octavio Gonzalez and just kept living his
Speaker 2: life as if nothing had ever happened, didn't have a
Speaker 2: valid driver's license, continued to violate the law. I was
Speaker 2: doing some kind of work in Weald County, and we're
Speaker 2: still not certain exactly what that was, but living basically
Speaker 2: living a life scot free. And then, of course, on
Speaker 2: the day that he killed my deputy, there were open
Speaker 2: alcohol containers found in his van, and again he fled
Speaker 2: the scene. Luckily, in this particular incident, because it happened
Speaker 2: in Weald County and because we were able to put
Speaker 2: a good case together in conjunction with the State Patrol,
Speaker 2: this individual was held accountable and sentenced to twenty four
Speaker 2: years in the Department of Corrections. And I would like
Speaker 2: to tell you that he'll spend all twenty four of
Speaker 2: those years in the Department of Corrections, but he very
Speaker 2: likely will not. There's a good chance he'll do less
Speaker 2: than half of that time. My only hope is that
Speaker 2: whoever is in the presidential office at that particular time
Speaker 2: will have the same philosophy as President Trump, and when
Speaker 2: this person does finally exit prison, they will also exit
Speaker 2: our country. But if you want to summarize crime in
Speaker 2: Colorado and you want to summarize the impacts of illegal immigration,
Speaker 2: those two things they come together in that particular incident,
Speaker 2: and it did cause the death of a very young woman.
Speaker 2: I think she was twenty seven at the time, and
Speaker 2: forgive me if I have her date or her birth
Speaker 2: date off by just a little bit, but very young
Speaker 2: in her career, very excited about a career in law enforcement.
Speaker 2: She was an excellent officer, embodied what you want in
Speaker 2: an officer, and had a bright future ahead of her
Speaker 2: all but for this coward drinking and driving and pulling
Speaker 2: out in front of her and taking her life in
Speaker 2: a blink of an eye. And again, I don't share
Speaker 2: that story a lot. I'm surprised they got through it.
Speaker 2: But Joe from Rvada brought it up. He was paying
Speaker 2: attention yesterday and knew that this thing had happened. I
Speaker 2: believe it was Joe from Arvada, and so I promised
Speaker 2: yesterday i'd share the story, and that's it. I will
Speaker 2: tell you that when people ask me, you know, is
Speaker 2: Colorado a better place?
Speaker 3: Heck no, it's not.
Speaker 2: How can I say that when we have incidents like
Speaker 2: that that happened involving not only my deputies but countless
Speaker 2: motorists out there on the road. And that's just one
Speaker 2: tip of the iceberg. I started the show out by
Speaker 2: reading a very horrifying press release from the Colorado State
Speaker 2: Patrol about another incident on I twenty five, just a
Speaker 2: day ago. I mean, crime in Colorado is out of control.
Speaker 2: There's no truth incentencaying. We got big problems in this
Speaker 2: state and it's only going to get worse if we
Speaker 2: don't get people engaged and involved and started electing some
Speaker 2: people that care about us, that care about the future
Speaker 2: of this state.
Speaker 3: So let me.
Speaker 2: I'll get to some of these texts here. They're the
Speaker 2: one that just really caught my attention, so it's a
Speaker 2: good break from what we're talking about. But I'll read
Speaker 2: a few of these others real quick. It says my
Speaker 2: son lives in Denver County. He's completed his concil carry class.
Speaker 2: He said, Denver County is not taking fingerprints or processing
Speaker 2: consial weapons permits until they see what is going to
Speaker 2: happen with the new gun laws, which makes no sense
Speaker 2: to me because those have no effect on consill weapons permits.
Speaker 2: It says, can you please comment on this? I just did.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know why Denver would take that stance. I
Speaker 2: don't oversee Denver. We do things very differently in Weld County.
Speaker 2: My goal is to get you in and out of
Speaker 2: the office as fast as you can, because I would
Speaker 2: rather you not even have to come to my office
Speaker 2: for a consill weapons permit. I would much rather this
Speaker 2: state be a constitutional carry state. But unfortunately, again back
Speaker 2: to the issue at hand, it is not controlled by
Speaker 2: Republicans at this time. Another text are here Colorado is
Speaker 2: a wasteland of crime, drugs, and illegals. Very positive posts there.
Speaker 2: Colorado has lost. People blame crime on law enforcement, and
Speaker 2: that's true. You hear a lot of that that law
Speaker 2: enforcement's not doing its job, and that's so backwards. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't make the criminals. We just try
Speaker 2: to try to catch them in Right now, are we're
Speaker 2: doing it with one hand tied behind our back most
Speaker 2: of the time. Another one here Colorado is such a disgrace.
Speaker 2: Thanks for all you do, Sheriff. This one is from
Speaker 2: Steve down in Littleton, retired l e O. Says Sheriff.
Speaker 2: We're going nowhere but downhill with dims in control. Glad
Speaker 2: I'm retired, but so thankful for those of you that
Speaker 2: continue to serve. Another guy asking about solicitations to protect
Speaker 2: law enforcement places? Is there one that I recommend?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: There's a couple of organizations out there that I know
Speaker 2: are reputable. It's County Sheriff's of Colorado and the Colorado
Speaker 2: Association a Chiefs the police. If you get phone calls
Speaker 2: from those guys, they're probably legit. The rest of them,
Speaker 2: you got to vet those on your own. And then
Speaker 2: this was the text that really cracked me up. It says, please,
Speaker 2: Sheriff Raimes, you need to threaten to arrest Dan if
Speaker 2: he doesn't run for governor. I know it sounds extreme,
Speaker 2: but I'm out of and I love that idea. So
Speaker 2: with that, we're gonna cut to break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll finalize the show. We'll figure out how we're gonna
Speaker 2: threaten Dan into running for governor. And you know, I've
Speaker 2: got a little bit of room in my jail, so
Speaker 2: maybe that'll be a good threat. So you're listening to
Speaker 2: the Dan Capless Show here on six point thirty k
Speaker 2: Haw you got Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Dreams filling in
Speaker 2: and we'll get to that last segment and close out
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening so far.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dankaplass Show. You have Well Kenny
Speaker 2: Sheriff Steve Riams filling in for Dan. Day number two here.
Speaker 2: I'll be back with you tomorrow. We came back with
Speaker 2: Colorado's theme song, Breaking the Law. I don't know what
Speaker 2: else could be more appropriate. But you know, before we
Speaker 2: went to break, I was talking about the text that
Speaker 2: someone wanted me to threaten Dan with the rest so
Speaker 2: that he had run for governor. And I can't help
Speaker 2: but wonder Ryan Kelly. You know, you guys, you read
Speaker 2: these texts that come in. There's a lot about you know,
Speaker 2: I see, I don't get to read every one of
Speaker 2: them on areas you guys will know, but there's a
Speaker 2: ton of them asking you know, is Dan gonna run?
Speaker 2: Is Dan gonna run? Have you heard one as inventive
Speaker 2: as that to try threatening to run for governor?
Speaker 7: I like the twist on it, and I would love
Speaker 7: to hear and see Dan's reaction, like if you just
Speaker 7: played it straight for a minute sixty seconds, like, Dan,
Speaker 7: I gotta do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just I'll have to catch him in the
Speaker 3: parking lot or something.
Speaker 8: You know, you'll have a funny story about this.
Speaker 3: Go for it.
Speaker 8: I was told by him, you have a very active imagination,
Speaker 8: young girl.
Speaker 4: Okay, about the suggestion that he might run for governor. Correct.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't think that's an imagination. I think that's
Speaker 2: a hope and a dream and hopefully he's gonna fulfill
Speaker 2: it in my opinion.
Speaker 7: So it wasn't like a feature of your imagination like
Speaker 7: Jared Paulas said about Daniel Jerinsky.
Speaker 8: Right, No, No, it was when uh not, Oh gosh,
Speaker 8: who's the managing partner, John Kellner?
Speaker 4: The John Killner.
Speaker 8: John Killner came in here, okay, and he's now the
Speaker 8: managing partner. So I asked Dan outright, I.
Speaker 3: Said, I mean you can run.
Speaker 8: Interesting, you have a managing partner that ran for attorney
Speaker 8: and Attorney General.
Speaker 3: It seems like a good fit.
Speaker 8: And that's what he said to me, you have a
Speaker 8: very overactive imagination.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't know what Dan's future holds,
Speaker 2: but I know that it's if there was a guy
Speaker 2: that could run, I think that guy's got all the
Speaker 2: chops to at least make a heck of a run
Speaker 2: against Bennett. You know again, I think Dan's listening audience
Speaker 2: is awesome and I would love to watch a debate
Speaker 2: between the two of them. Oh my, I can't help boy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's talking about fighting with one hand tied behind your back.
Speaker 2: It's the only way to be fair.
Speaker 7: Two things I'll say, just based on my insights talking
Speaker 7: to Dan behind the scenes, is he would be chomping
Speaker 7: at the bit for that opportunity to debate Bennett.
Speaker 4: I think he's thinking about that that part of it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: As far as running, he was asked this on the
Speaker 7: air by a listener, and what I noticed and turned
Speaker 7: to Kelly and said, was that.
Speaker 4: He didn't say no.
Speaker 3: Well that's a start.
Speaker 7: He didn't say no, whereas I think in the past
Speaker 7: he has said no. He's always cites the concerns and
Speaker 7: we were aware of that. Running for office. There's a
Speaker 7: cost to that, yep, not just financially, but with your family,
Speaker 7: with his wife Amy, Amy would have to be on
Speaker 7: board with it. And there's a lot of factors that
Speaker 7: go into that decision. But what I drew from that, Sheriff,
Speaker 7: is that he has not made that decision yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I agree with you. I think he's
Speaker 2: I think he's in a place where he can at
Speaker 2: least contemplate or is this the race to get into
Speaker 2: And as I said, you know, whether it was hosting
Speaker 2: the show or privately amongst friends. You know, I think
Speaker 2: if there's anyone that's beatable in the state of Colorado
Speaker 2: on the Democrat side, it is Michael Bennett. I think
Speaker 2: he's more beatable than Phil Wiser for the simple fact
Speaker 2: that the guy is so boring and I don't mean
Speaker 2: so bring so boring.
Speaker 7: And he's never back here in Colorado. He really got
Speaker 7: his feathers roughly. Yeah, when Rob Dawson, my counterpart at
Speaker 7: KOA here, just brought up the fact that there's criticism
Speaker 7: out there, and there is. You can't deny that there
Speaker 7: isn't criticism that you're never back here in the state
Speaker 7: of Colorado.
Speaker 4: We don't see you. People don't know who you are.
Speaker 9: I did a really good job back here. A lot
Speaker 9: take issue with the question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't say didn't understand the question,
Speaker 2: like you know half the other ones where he just
Speaker 2: tries to skate out.
Speaker 9: Sound like the senator from Texas.
Speaker 3: To build a wall.
Speaker 7: Oh, and that was the other part that we didn't
Speaker 7: talk about, Sheriff, was that was such a freezing cold take.
Speaker 9: The medieval border wall. I mean, why do we need
Speaker 9: a wall like?
Speaker 7: Oh? All these years later? Yeah, fast forward a few
Speaker 7: years and Jay, it was a good idea. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 7: if we'd have done it back then, things would have
Speaker 7: been different. Hey, this text just came in. It's just
Speaker 7: it's so simple. Dan could win. I believe that too.
Speaker 7: You know, I'll just say that because he gives me
Speaker 7: the airwaves here. I think Dan's a phenomenal guy. He's
Speaker 7: got a huge listening audience. He you know, he's got
Speaker 7: name recognition beyond most, beyond most Republicans in this state.
Speaker 7: And Dan's background is a little different. I think it's
Speaker 7: more amenable to the voters of Colorado, whether they be Democrats, unaffiliateds,
Speaker 7: or Republicans. I think he has the I think he
Speaker 7: has one of those backgrounds that could potentially thread the needle.
Speaker 7: And that's not to say that he would have an
Speaker 7: easy march into the governor's mansion. But you know, the
Speaker 7: guy's got enough fight in him, and he's very well
Speaker 7: spoken and knows how to debate. I think he can
Speaker 7: make a heck of an interesting run. We just need
Speaker 7: some good candidates to run alongside of him, for say,
Speaker 7: attorney General and maybe secretary of State, and you know,
Speaker 7: somebody to run against taking Looper. And those are the
Speaker 7: things that have to develop. And who knows, maybe Dan's
Speaker 7: looking at all those seats too and trying to figure
Speaker 7: out where he fits the best. But either way, I
Speaker 7: know his reach is beyond these airwaves and beyond the
Speaker 7: work that he does in private. So Dan's got my
Speaker 7: support if he gets in. And you know it's you
Speaker 7: to say that now, but I'm not gonna go threat
Speaker 7: to arrest him just yet. But I do like the idea.
Speaker 4: I just like the visual of that, the optics. Oh wow, Sheriff,
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it wouldn't it be weird if he, like
Speaker 2: you know, was really intrigued by the handcuffs and all that,
Speaker 2: and this could go against me in a weird way too.
Speaker 2: I have to make sure that I got him up
Speaker 2: to well, counting where I was, at least working inside.
Speaker 4: I have the best impressions ever.
Speaker 3: He's great. He's great.
Speaker 2: Where to god the Michael Bennett take, though, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, he sounds like a South.
Speaker 4: Park character, right, yeah, counselor Mackie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's him.
Speaker 4: That's really what it derives from.
Speaker 7: But especially when he gets worked up, like you heard
Speaker 7: in the clip that you poll, he gets really really upset,
Speaker 7: like you from Cata.
Speaker 3: Hat, and he doesn't know what to do with his hands.
Speaker 7: You know, he doesn't, and he loses all of his enunciation, articulation,
Speaker 7: and he.
Speaker 9: Just gives it into the emotion of the moment.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you can do Dan Kapliss.
Speaker 2: All right, this text too, says Sheriff Raemes. Everyone with
Speaker 2: an above room temperature, IQ knows that Bennett is the
Speaker 2: Jeff Speculli of the center. Anybody want a pizza?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Well, we're having a little bit of fun here at
Speaker 2: the end of the show. Again, it's been a pleasure
Speaker 2: being here with you. On day two, I'll be back
Speaker 2: with you tomorrow. We've got some guests coming in that
Speaker 2: I think you'll want to hear. We're gonna have Congressman
Speaker 2: Gave Evans, the new GOP Chairwoman, Brenda Horn, will be
Speaker 2: in studio with us. We'll have a couple of other
Speaker 2: surprise guests on as well, so stick with us. We'll
Speaker 2: see you tomorrow on The Dan Caplis Show. And thanks
Speaker 2: for listening with well Kenny Sheriff Steve Rings