Speaker 1: Danielle Drinsky time to come on and talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that all of a sudden, we've got mayors finally admitting, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we may have Venezuelan gangs and they
Speaker 1: may be taking over some apartment complexes, which is what
Speaker 1: she's been sounding the alarm about. Did you know that
Speaker 1: the mayor was finally going to have your back on this?
Speaker 2: I didn't, Manby, so I was I was happy to
Speaker 2: see that he came out. He has not reached out
Speaker 2: to me. Nobody has reached out to me. So I
Speaker 2: was happy to see that that Mayor Coffman, you know,
Speaker 2: finally made a statement about it.
Speaker 1: Well, and he did say here's my issue. Mayor Mike
Speaker 1: Kaufman and Mayor Mike Johnson sat down with Kyle Clark.
Speaker 1: Kyle who never misses an opportunity to take a shot
Speaker 1: at a conservative woman as he sort of tried to
Speaker 1: say that it was all in your head earlier this
Speaker 1: week via ex But they sat down and said, look,
Speaker 1: this is causing hysteria, and now we have all these
Speaker 1: people calling nine one one and three one one. What
Speaker 1: would you have preferred them to do in this situation
Speaker 1: in order to not have to make it a massive,
Speaker 1: huge issue.
Speaker 2: Well, this could have been addressed when I first started
Speaker 2: talking about it, you know, but I get ignored, I
Speaker 2: get dismissed. I don't know, Mandy, if this is something
Speaker 2: they'd like to have conversations and just exclude me. But
Speaker 2: I am the chair of the Public Safety Committee for
Speaker 2: the City of Aurora. I have not been told what
Speaker 2: the plan is to address this. I have Aurora police
Speaker 2: officers coming to me asking me what the plan is.
Speaker 2: They're told that no less than four of them can
Speaker 2: respond to any of the department complexes at a time,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, they try to avoid them because they're
Speaker 2: concerned about their own wellbeing. So what is the plan?
Speaker 2: If they didn't want it to come out like this,
Speaker 2: they had the platform, they had the voices to come
Speaker 2: forward or behind the scenes to put together. They knew
Speaker 2: that this was starting to burst at the seams because
Speaker 2: I was getting louder and louder. So about two weeks
Speaker 2: ago cup two three weeks ago, APD did come out
Speaker 2: and announce that they were forming a gang task Force
Speaker 2: to try and deal with it. So they saw this
Speaker 2: coming out of me, Mandy. You know, I don't change
Speaker 2: my strength when I start getting loud about something and
Speaker 2: no one listens, I get louder and I get louder,
Speaker 2: and I guess what I have found in local government?
Speaker 2: Maybe in government across the board some folks that think
Speaker 2: that they can just ignore others. But I refuse to
Speaker 2: be ignored.
Speaker 1: I said yesterday on the show Danielle that I think,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I was trying to give Mayor Mike
Speaker 1: Kaufman a little grace on this issue.
Speaker 3: And I said, maybe there is a.
Speaker 1: Massive law enforcement organization working on this and they don't
Speaker 1: want to tip their hand, or maybe you just don't
Speaker 1: want a rora to continue to look like get a
Speaker 1: black eye, right so, And I think it's the latter
Speaker 1: in this case.
Speaker 3: He just does not want Aurora painted with this brush.
Speaker 1: Because Aurora has had a reputation of having trouble with
Speaker 1: crime for a very very long time. Does that concern
Speaker 1: you at all or is it so important that you
Speaker 1: just want it taken care of?
Speaker 2: Well? I think it concerns me that any elected official
Speaker 2: would allow something like this to be downplayed in order
Speaker 2: to save our image. And again, as far as our
Speaker 2: image goes, Mandy, I have been talking about this for weeks.
Speaker 2: I have been saying, what is going on in these
Speaker 2: department complexes. Police officers are coming to me, Residents are
Speaker 2: making their way out, They're reaching out. What are we doing?
Speaker 2: What is the plan? If there'd have been a plan,
Speaker 2: if somebody were to move in on these complexes, if
Speaker 2: arrests would have been made. But you know what they did, Mandy. Instead,
Speaker 2: they closed in on the Nome Street apartments, I mean,
Speaker 2: the guys of code enforcement violations and did nothing to
Speaker 2: address this gang problem. So this gang they just picked
Speaker 2: up and spread out even further into other apartment complexes,
Speaker 2: terrorizing more Aurora residents. And you know, just like the
Speaker 2: Romeros which you saw.
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe they were still living there. I said
Speaker 4: to her, I said, I'm going to get you out,
Speaker 4: pack your stuff.
Speaker 2: You're leaving.
Speaker 4: I will take care of all the logistics you are leaving.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is un real that in the United
Speaker 4: States of America that in a major we're what the
Speaker 4: forty ninth largest city in the country. This is how
Speaker 4: Americans are living.
Speaker 2: But Mandy, let me tell you something. The nonprofits and
Speaker 2: the city lined up ruled out the red carpets for
Speaker 2: all of the folks that came out of the Nome
Speaker 2: Street Department. Well, let me tell you the actual leaseholders,
Speaker 2: the citizens, the residents that had been there before. They'd
Speaker 2: all either been chased out, scared out, fled for their lives,
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. So all of these resources
Speaker 2: went to Venezuelan migrants, all of them. Who is lining up?
Speaker 2: Where are the nonprofits? Where is anybody to go in
Speaker 2: and help folks like the Romeros who I'm moved out,
Speaker 2: both with bullet holes in their cars. Who's helping them?
Speaker 1: Danielle Drinsky is my guest Auora City councilwoman. You know, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I am, first of all, I'm really glad you're sounding
Speaker 1: the alarm. Second of all, I hope that we can
Speaker 1: get this under control. And I want to ask you
Speaker 1: a quick question. This is a little bit of a sidewinder,
Speaker 1: but really not you guys just hired a new police chief,
Speaker 1: and I am not one of those people who thinks
Speaker 1: you needed more comput you know, community engagement, because obviously
Speaker 1: that's been an abject disaster based.
Speaker 3: On how things have gone so far in that role.
Speaker 1: What are you expecting out of this new chief when
Speaker 1: it comes to addressing this issue.
Speaker 2: Person foremost many, I would like to be heard for once.
Speaker 2: I would like to be heard. I ran my race
Speaker 2: and I won, and I got elected just like anybody else,
Speaker 2: and I deserve a voice at the table. I deserve
Speaker 2: to be heard. So many of these maybe in the
Speaker 2: past that I've found to the alarm about that I've
Speaker 2: been very vocal about. It's been proven over and over again.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, there really is something to what she's saying. Well,
Speaker 2: just listen to me. But if I'm just going to
Speaker 2: be dismissed as oh this crazy loud woman, listen. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to spend all of my time fighting with
Speaker 2: other people to make sure that the right things are
Speaker 2: happening in Aurora. It should just be happening. And I
Speaker 2: am optimistic. I am optimistic about Todd Chamberlain's arrival. You know.
Speaker 2: I interview obviously, as many of us did, but I
Speaker 2: interviewed the man personally, and he has a calm demeanor
Speaker 2: that he has a stern presence. I can tell he's
Speaker 2: a leader. I think he is going to get this
Speaker 2: apartment on the on the right track, you know. And
Speaker 2: and if and when he gets here, and he's doing
Speaker 2: the great job that I believe he's going to do.
Speaker 2: I am going to be his biggest, biggest supporter. I
Speaker 2: will be out in front of him because I know
Speaker 2: that since I have taken office, I have largely been
Speaker 2: the biggest police chief critic that we've had. But there's
Speaker 2: a reason for that, manby So let me.
Speaker 1: Ask this, Danielle, and this is from one of our
Speaker 1: texters on the Common Spirit Health techt line, Mandy, Can
Speaker 1: Danielle paint a picture of what these gangs are doing
Speaker 1: at the apartments? Can you tell us what you know
Speaker 1: from the Romeros who you just moved out of one
Speaker 1: of these What is it.
Speaker 2: Like there that it's a nightmare? And anybody who just missed.
Speaker 2: Cindew Romerol for the first time did an interview on
Speaker 2: Fox National at noon. You can go back and hear
Speaker 2: it in her own words.
Speaker 4: But I mean they would actively they actively patrol the
Speaker 4: properties with guns. You know, they stop vehicles that are
Speaker 4: pulling up to the property. They go up to vehicles
Speaker 4: of the cinta Arinus released more video footage yesterday. They'll
Speaker 4: just stop vehicles at gunpoint. They are at they're controlling
Speaker 4: the properties. They go in, they'll just kick the door
Speaker 4: in well.
Speaker 2: You saw the video footage.
Speaker 4: They'll take axes and just chop your door handle off.
Speaker 4: That's why the Romeros lived with four dead bulls and
Speaker 4: a door bresh got extortion, assaults, sex trafficking, I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, I have heard it all from these residents.
Speaker 3: It's amazing, Danielle.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many of the folks in the news
Speaker 1: media have been to these housing complexes or even the mayor.
Speaker 2: Well outside of Vicente. I'm not sure. I know that
Speaker 2: the mayor was at the Nome Street apartments over a
Speaker 2: year ago, but it was it was not this, It
Speaker 2: was not this a year ago when the mayor, So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that anybody has And of course you
Speaker 2: know now, I'm sure they're all going to go for
Speaker 2: the photo ops and get over to some of these
Speaker 2: apartment complexes and you know, have.
Speaker 4: Their photos taken.
Speaker 2: But but they're also now put on notice. So I'm
Speaker 2: certain that police are now and hopefully federal partners are
Speaker 2: going in and going after some of these flooks that
Speaker 2: maybe let me tell you, maybe six eight months ago,
Speaker 2: there was a man kidnapped from the Nome Street departments.
Speaker 2: The man was kidnapped and he was jumped off clear
Speaker 2: on the other side of Aurora, out by the Southlands area,
Speaker 2: and when police interviewed him, that man gave a statement
Speaker 2: that they had a kill room, a kill room in
Speaker 2: one of these apartment complexes. So you know the fact
Speaker 2: that the federal agencies, he has to think that one
Speaker 2: local law enforcement by agency by themselves, the Oral Police Department,
Speaker 2: can take on something like this is ridiculous. The men
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 4: Women of the Royal Police Department works so hard. They
Speaker 4: are working tirelessly, so many hours, and you know.
Speaker 2: What, they want to make sure they're going home at
Speaker 2: night too. Where are federal partners?
Speaker 4: And Jared Police said he has offered support.
Speaker 3: Show up.
Speaker 4: Jared, you don't.
Speaker 2: Have to ask if we want them to come.
Speaker 3: Send them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he says, it's all in your imagination. Danielle,
Speaker 1: So you know you got that going for you.
Speaker 2: I have such a vivid imagination, it's wild.
Speaker 3: Danielle Dorensky. I appreciate your time. Keep up the good work,
Speaker 3: keep sounding the alarm.
Speaker 1: I mean, sounds like you are the one who is
Speaker 1: looking out for the law abiding citizens that are living
Speaker 1: in these complexes, and for that I'm grateful.
Speaker 3: So thanks for making time for us today.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I always appreciate you.