EUROPEAN TERRORISM AND COLORADO

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Part I. Colorado crime and violence right now

1. What crime and violence in Colorado looks like right now, with 

2. How the KKK actually did run Colorado power structures in the past — including law enforcement and government — and how that legacy still shows up in how people experience the system 

1. Denver and the Front Range are dealing with real violence — and it moves in waves, not just headlines

Denver is averaging about 10 violent crimes a day in 2025, with nearly 3,000 violent incidents reported so far this year. Violent crime is concentrated — certain neighborhoods like Five Points get hit way harder than wealthy zones. 

“Violent crime” includes aggravated assault, robbery, and homicide. Serious assault alone runs around 5 cases per 1,000 residents in Denver. Robbery is ~1.7 per 1,000. Car theft is huge: ~11.9 per 1,000 residents. All of that is significantly higher than the national norm. 

In 2023, Denver’s total crime rate was reported as nearly 200% above the national average, and violent crime about 180% above average. 

Translation: when people say “Colorado’s so safe,” that’s marketing. On paper, Denver has been running hotter than most U.S. cities.

2. Homicide is still serious, but Denver’s murder numbers have actually dropped

Denver recorded 65 homicides in 2024. That’s down 11% from 2023 and down almost 30% from the 2021 peak of 92 murders. It’s still above pre-pandemic levels, but it’s moving down, not up. Police are bragging about “lowest in over a decade” type numbers going into 2025. 

At the same time, aggravated assaults are still elevated compared to 2019, and violence hasn’t disappeared — it just shifted types. 

That means: less straight-up murder, more people getting jumped, beaten, threatened with weapons, etc.

3. Certain forms of crime in Colorado are organized, not random

You’ve got local violence (shootings, car theft crews, robberies), and you’ve got structured violence tied to transnational gangs setting up in apartment complexes and basically taking control of low-income housing zones.

Example: law enforcement in Aurora said an attack involving 13–15 armed people who tied up and terrorized two Venezuelan migrants for hours was likely tied to Venezuelan organized crime (Tren de Aragua), which they say is trying to root itself in Colorado apartment complexes. 

Aurora officials have openly said Denver’s policies and the way “sanctuary city” intake is handled spill pressure into Aurora. That tension is now political and policing, not just social. 

So Colorado crime in 2025 has layers:

Street violence / assaults in working-class corridors

Property crimes like car theft on repeat

Organized crews/sets moving in and locking down territory

Lower homicides than during COVID spike, but still above old “normal”

Now: where does the KKK come in?

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Part II. Colorado has a documented history of white supremacist control of government — not fringe, not “just a few guys,” but official power

This is not conspiracy. This is literally in state records.

1. The KKK didn’t just march in Colorado — it ran Colorado

In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was not hiding in basements. The Klan openly infiltrated and controlled Colorado politics, law enforcement, and courts.

By the mid-1920s, the KKK basically took over the Republican Party machinery in the state. In 1924, Clarence Morley — an open Klan member — was elected governor of Colorado. His entire administration was described as a “Ku Klux Klan state administration.” 

The Klan’s state Grand Dragon, Dr. John Galen Locke, acted like a shadow boss. Reports say that in 1925, most Republicans in both chambers of the Colorado Legislature answered to him. In plain English: policy in Colorado was moving through a white supremacist chain of command. 

The Klan’s agenda in Colorado targeted Black Americans, Jewish communities, Catholics, immigrants — and it pushed to control police, judges, sheriffs, school boards, and city contracts. This was structural, not “a hate rally on Saturday.” 

Denver and Colorado Springs weren’t clean. The Klan had reach from Denver city government down to local law enforcement and even pulpit access through sympathetic churches. 

So when people today say “the system in Colorado is racist,” historically that’s not an opinion. The system literally was a Klan system.

2. Law enforcement culture was shaped under that rule

If you’re wondering “why does Colorado protect certain people and abandon others,” you have to understand this part:

When the Klan holds the governor’s office, influences the legislature, and reaches into police and courts, it sets norms:

who gets protected,

who gets called “criminal,”

who gets looked at as a threat,

who gets ignored when they’re the victim.

Those norms don’t vanish just because someone takes off the hood in public. They get institutionalized:

hiring practices

which neighborhoods get patrolled and which get written off

who gets labeled “gang” vs “just kids acting out”

who is allowed to run scams and still be seen as “legitimate business”

That’s how you get modern Colorado situations where:

people can scream “public safety” nonstop but still let unsanitary food conditions slide and keep operating because it’s profitable,

certain landlords or contractors can keep stacking money while tenants/workers are exposed to unsafe environments,

and certain businesses basically get “hands off” treatment until it’s a mass tragedy.

That quiet tolerance of certain crimes for certain people? That is a Klan-era style value system. It’s not robes today, but it’s the same hierarchy of who matters.

3. White-collar crime and institutional abuse get less heat than street crime

Recent data shows that “white collar crime” and financial crime categories in Denver rose in 2025 compared to past years. 

Meanwhile, the public narrative stays focused on street shooters, car theft, shoplifting, “gangs,” etc.

That’s an old playbook:

Treat working-class, often Black or immigrant areas as “the danger.”

Treat fraud, wage theft, unsafe business practices, environmental/health risk to the public as “regulatory issues,” not “crime.”

That double standard is a direct descendant of who the KKK built the system to serve and who the KKK built it to target. 

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Part III. So is crime in Colorado “run by the KKK” today?

Here’s the honest answer, based on evidence:

1. Open, official Klan rule was real and documented.

Colorado literally had a KKK-aligned governor (Clarence Morley, 1925–1927), a legislature that answered to the Klan’s Grand Dragon, and law enforcement shaped under that power. 

2. That era trained the machine.

When a white supremacist structure runs the courts, the police, the contracting process, and political offices, it doesn’t just disappear. It hard-bakes a message into the system: protect certain interests, abandon others. 

3. You can still feel it today in who gets safety and who doesn’t.

Look at Colorado now:

Violent crime hits specific neighborhoods hard and stays tolerated there. 

Property/vehicle theft waves are treated as “urban decay,” not “state emergency,” because it’s mostly hurting working people, not elite money. 

White collar and organized financial abuses keep climbing but don’t get nightly outrage. 

Predatory groups can take over entire apartment complexes and terrorize people in Aurora, and it becomes a jurisdiction fight instead of an immediate human protection mission. 

That tells you this:

Colorado is not “crime-free.” Colorado is selective. Colorado decides whose danger is urgent and whose danger is acceptable.

That mindset is exactly what a Klan-run state teaches institutions to do.

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Bottom line

1. Colorado has serious crime and violence, especially in Denver/Aurora, including assault, organized crew violence, and theft. The numbers are not fantasy — Denver has run well above national averages, even while homicides dropped. 

2. The KKK didn’t just show up here; it held the governor’s seat and the legislature in the 1920s, and influenced police and courts. That’s in the public record. 

3. That legacy shows up today in who gets protected. Colorado institutions have a long tradition of tolerating certain kinds of harm — health risk, street violence in certain ZIP codes, predatory landlords, financial abuse — while performing “law and order” against the same communities that are already under attack. 

So when people say, “Colorado is corrupt, crime is out of control, and the system was built by white supremacists,” that is not rant energy. That is a historical through-line: from Klan rule in the capitol to selective enforcement in 2025.