Talk:Lakewood, Colorado

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CitiesWikipedia:WikiProject CitiesTemplate:WikiProject CitiesWikiProject Cities articles

United States: Colorado Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Colorado portal This article is supported by WikiProject Colorado, our collaboration to improve, create, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado. To comment about this article, select the New section tab above. For questions about, or to make suggestions for Colorado articles, go to our project's talk page. We invite you to join us!

Wrong Date[edit]

Lakewood, Colorado became a city in the 1960's with Jim Richie as the first mayor. The city of Lakewood when incorporated took in the areas known as Lakewood, Belmar, Green Gables and Alameda. The incorporation was a reaction to Denver gobbleing up many surrounding areas. The first city building was at 1550 Yarrow, what is now the Clements Center. An interesting side note: The first ticket given out by the Lakewood police was to a counselman from ward 3, Bill Brown, right after he left the city counsel meeting where the police were comissioned. Prior to being commissioned as Lakewood, these combined regions were referred to as Jefferson City. Political Analysis 22:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lakewood High School[edit]

Lakewood High School is the the number one high school in Colorado based upon what criterion?

You should cite the Newsweek ratings.

--Buaidh 21:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This section is very opinionated. Jefferson County Public Schools uses LHS as a magnate for IB purposefully. Other high schools in the district are magnates for other things.

Joshywashy234 04:30, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Best known for[edit]

I hardly think that casa bonita is what lakewood is best known for. You might as well say it is more known for Jose O'Shea! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.92.67.13 (talk) 00:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Needs a few town photos.LanceBarber (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mayor of Lakewood[edit]

When I click Bob Murphy's name it goes to a list of unrelated Roberts and Bobs with the surname of Murphy... That is very annoying and frustrating... Either link it to Bob Murphy (Mayor of Lakewood), or if there isn't an article for the Mayor remove the link! :@ :@ :@ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isa alcala (talk • contribs) 15:46, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Police scandal[edit]

Resolved

Hello, User:Stottle, and welcome to the English Wikipedia.

I notice that you have blanked information about Lakewood's police scandal.[1] Over the space of years, Lakewood's police department deemed many reports of rape to be fictional – five times the national average, which is really shocking. In one instance, the results were:

The victim was accurately and honestly reporting rape.
The police department claimed that the victim was committing a crime by telling them that she had been raped.
The rapist, instead of being arrested and imprisoned, was free to rape more women, and did so – five times.
The city took no action against the officers who caused the first victim to be treated like a criminal and whose inaction passively contributed to the subsequent rapes – reportedly not even so much as sending them to a training class or a letter of reprimand.

Now, if you lived in that town, it might be rather embarrassing, but I think that this is typical and encyclopedic information. It would be difficult to fully understand how the city government operated in the past (or, I hope, how different it is now) if you can't find out that their response to rape cases is (or, we hope, was) to charge the victims with crimes. I think this material should be included. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:52, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@WhatamIdoing: I think you're confusing Lakewood with Lynnwood. That is the town that Miller and Armstrong reported as labeling 21% of rape cases as "unfounded", five times the national average. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:07, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, dear! Thank you so much for this note, Sangdeboeuf. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:50, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]