One cannot help but wonder if this culture so boasted of and so proudly aspired to really cares.
Really cares that dope literally runs through the streets of Aspen to the extent that it takes outside agencies coming in in order to enforce the law.
Our guess is that this exhibit will only serve to strengthen the resolve of the citizens who do care, the FBI and the DEA.
Andre Salvail:
"“The important part of the show is really the display panels (sandwiched between Benton's campaign posters) with writings by Dick Keinast,” Watkins said. “They sort of outline how Aspen and Pitkin County came to be a more compassionate law enforcement community, without collaborating with the DEA and FBI.”
The exhibit is especially relevant today, Watkins said, given the DEA's newfound presence in the Roaring Fork Valley and the recent arrests of suspected cocaine traffickers and their subsequent plea bargains.
“With everything that's going on now, with the drug investigations and the DEA in town and all of that, we thought this would be an appropriate statement about the history of the sheriff's department and how it came to be the way it is,” he said....." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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