Intersection Where Quadruple Shooting Happened A Hotbed For Recent Crimes

DENVER (CBS4) - After a disturbing quadruple shooting in a LoDo neighborhood early on Labor Day, late night safety is once again in the spotlight.

Crime is no stranger in Denver's Lower Downtown neighborhood. Denver police statistics show 1,500 offenses in the Union Station square mile in the past year.

At 19th and Market Street where the shooting occured there have been robberies, thefts, aggravated assaults and more.

Emerging from a bar at that corner on Monday, Zachary Langer said that news of the shooting doesn't deter him from coming to LoDo.

"I see a police presence. The area is clean, I feel it's safe," he told CBS4.

There has been much talk about changing the closing hours of bars to later times so that hundred if not thousands of people pour onto the streets at once.

State Rep. Crisanta Duran told CBS4 she believes it should be up to each local municipality to determine which closing times work best. Legislation that she backed could have kept some bars open as late as 7 a.m., but the bill did not become law.

CBS4's Rick Sallinger is a Peabody award winning reporter who has been with the station more than two decades doing hard news and investigative reporting. Follow him on Twitter @ricksallinger.