JUST IN: Aurora, Colorado Police Respond To Suspected Activity By Venezuelan Gang Tren De Aragua

I stopped by here at 12 in Dallas got quite a few of our officers out here that are uh out here tonight again I've been out here for several weeks uh making contacts with our residents reassuring them about the criminal activity um that's happening here and how we're going to address it we're out here we want to reassure the the people that live in this community that we are actively investigating criminal activity that's happening and listening to them to uh so that we can learn any anything that we're missing you know what are we missing and actually find out what exactly is going on we're out here because we care I mean nobody nobody should be wearing this uniform if they don't care and we want the residents and the people that live here to know that we care we've been talking to the residents here and learning from them to find out what exactly is going on and there's definitely a different picture I'm not saying that there's not gang members that don't live in this community but what we're learning out here is that gang members have not taken over this complex we've really made an effort the last few days to just really ask the specific questions and the direct questions in terms of the gain activity and who's actually uh if making sure that people aren't paying rent to gang leaders or gang members that that's not happening and we've discovered here today and talk and yesterday talking to you know so many residents that that's not the case we've been talking to and and they've been sincere with this we really believe that they are sincere with this and we're standing out here and I can tell you that gang members have not taken over this apartment complex