The 27th annual event had been scheduled for May 24...two days after the shooting at East High School.
With fears mounting over, the Denver Department of Safety decided to postpone its longest-running public forum on the subject — the 27th Annual Safe City Youth Summit, which was postponed indefinitely on March 23, just one day before the event was scheduled to take place and the day after the shooting at East High School.
"There's so much up in the air as we determine what to do moving forward," Jacobs explains."We're scrambling to find a place to fit almost 500 people."and the reintroduction of SROs in high schools will be one of the biggest talking points at the summit, which was created to combat conditions that had led to Denver's so-called Summer of Violence in 1993.
"We believe in the voices of youth," Yohe says."Especially now, it's really important to give youth opportunities to engage with the school district and the city to talk about their needs. And something like a youth summit is really important, and especially important right now.
The department understands the need for events like the Safe City Youth Summit during times like these, says one Safety official, noting that"now is the time to be engaging in these difficult conversations." But once DPS canceled school in favor of a"mental health day," the summit had to be put off.
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