r/LakewoodColorado

A former Lakewood Police Department (LPD) officer has been arrested by Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office for multiple counts related to alleged misconduct committed between July 2023 and July 2025, while employed as an Agent of LPD. 

Christopher Gearhart has been booked on ten counts, including six counts of First Degree Official Misconduct and four counts of Cybercrime. Gearhart worked for LPD as a patrol agent from 2019 until he resigned during an investigation in 2025. 

How disconnected are city leaders from regular people right now?
Families are getting crushed by groceries, rent, insurance, utilities, and property taxes — and the solution is ANOTHER sales tax increase? A sales tax hits working people the hardest. Every trip to the store costs more while wages barely keep up.

Meanwhile, what are we getting for all this money? Endless spending on homelessness with little visible improvement, parks and public spaces declining, and government offices still half empty because employees are working from home. Taxpayers are funding buildings, benefits, pensions, and salaries while many offices sit empty and services get slower.

Government employees should be working IN the city they serve. If you work for the public, you should be present, accountable, accessible, and part of the community — not logged in remotely from somewhere else while residents fight traffic, commute to work every day, and pay the taxes that fund these jobs. Public service was never meant to become permanent work-from-home bureaucracy.

Before asking residents for more money:
Bring ALL government employees back into the office

Fill the public buildings taxpayers already paid for

Cut administrative bloat

End the endless consultant culture

Audit where homelessness money is actually going

Stop rewarding failure with bigger budgets

People are tired of hearing “we need more funding” while watching the same problems get worse year after year.
At some point taxpayers have to say enough is enough. Stop the grift.

Denver friends,

Looking for any recommendations or ideas to help find a missing dog that has been lost for a month with no credible true leads. Posts have been made continuously across social media and Facebook groups, fliers have been posted, shelters and police contacted and constantly monitored, posts made on PawBoost and similar sites as well as Ring, Nextdoor, etc.

If anyone has been in a similar situation trying to find a lost pet with success and has any recommendations or any other ideas - please do share.
Last seen in Berkeley heights April 17.

UPDATE: flier with info and pictures available here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/vuICvwsCRJ

Fatal motorcycle accident with Wadsworth closed in both directions. RIP

I am looking to have an egress window installed and would like to get it permitted. However, there has been some unpermitted work done on the house, and I’m concerned an inspector might start looking around and require me to rip out drywall, etc. Am I being paranoid or is this a realistic concern?