 Hi, I'm Raquel Lopez with the Media Relations Unit and I'm here today speaking to Commander Mike Callow from District 2. Good afternoon sir, I understand that you, this is a big hot spot for your area. Your officers did a great job on an arrest. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, I can and thank you for coming out once again giving everybody an update on District 2 and the great police work that's being done. This particular area 36 and Downing, Col. William neighborhood here off to the south. The crime analyst identified this particular area as a hot spot. We deployed resources into the area specifically the District 2 street crime attack team a few days ago. They were here observing traffic flow. They were looking for suspicious individuals based on information that were received from the community and such. So, in the afternoon they were able to stop the motor vehicle after witnessing a few traffic violations. They established the probable cause needed to contact the three occupants of the car. When the officers approached they realized that one in the back seat, the young man in the back seat was literally tossing bags of crack cocaine up into the front and on the floor board. Very definitely within plain view. Subsequent three people were arrested out of the vehicle all three charged with intent to distribute that product on the streets of Denver. It's possession of a controlled substance and we were able to seize the vehicle that they were driving and towed that to the car pound. The impact that this has in the Col. William neighborhood. We know that a few of the houses that they were going to go distribute that cocaine to are located in that area. This is just a great arrest and it will have a great impact on reducing the street level crime in the neighborhood because of the seizure. When you look at the amount that was taken approximately 10 ounces that equates to about a third of a kilo of crack cocaine off the streets of the Col. Whittier neighborhood. Wow, great work. We also have community member Whittier, a Whittier community member, Tim Davenport who's here today also with us. Good afternoon, sir. So what can you tell us about this operation? How do you think this is going to impact the area, the community members that are in this area? Well, we've been working on community policing with the commander and the DPD down here in District 2 for quite a while now. And we've realized that it's very important to engage with the police, to communicate with them effectively, to let them know about everything that's happening in the neighborhood. This is really one critical piece, I think, to having the police be effective down here. The violence, the drugs in this neighborhood are really messing a lot of people up, hurting and destroying lives, people that I know, people that are my neighbors. And it's impacting a lot of the good people in this neighborhood as well. And also, some of this information is being put on, messages are being put on social media. How is the Whittier community using social media? Sure. Specifically here in Whittier, we have a very effective Facebook page that gets a lot of traffic. If there's a burglar in the afternoon, people are talking about it. If people are dumping illegally, people are talking about it. So we have a really effective communication network through that. And I'll be going in, looking up the Denver Police Department YouTube channel, and I'll be starting to post some of the videos up on the Whittier Facebook page. That's great. Well, thank you, sir. Appreciate your time. Thank you. I'm Raquel Lopez with the Media Relations Unit. Please stay tuned for updates on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.