Reader: Denver Police Department or Insane Clown Posse?

It wasn't quite Law & Order, but the release of the Denver Police Department's first promotional video -- made by former Westword staff writer Frank Hogan, who now runs Let's Be Frank Productions -- prompted plenty of entertaining responses, including this from Spleen:...
By Patricia Calhoun
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It wasn’t quite Law & Order, but the release of the Denver Police Department’s first promotional video — made by former Westword staff writer Frank Hogan, who now runs Let’s Be Frank Productions — prompted plenty of entertaining responses, including this from Spleen:

I have been having a bit of trouble lately distinguishing the DPD from the ICP (Insane Clown Posse, for those of you lucky enough to not know who they are): both enjoy mindless, idiotic violence while imagining themselves to be brilliant and heroic; both seem slightly brain damaged or mildly retarded and both are total fucking clowns.

For more entertaining coverage, see our Colorado Crimes archives.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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