In the News: Retired Denver Gang Cop Revisits Past, Gives Items to Police Museum
The DPLEM was recently featured in a story in the Denver Post.
A surge of gang violence in northeast Denver, including several fatal shootings, frustrates a retired police gang unit lieutenant who battles Crips, Bloods and various other gangs more than 30 years ago.
"The gangs haven't changed," said Lou Lopex, 83, who retired from the "Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Unit" of the Denver Police Department in 1984.