This continued to be the policy of the Denver PD untill about '06 and that policy subjected them to several lawsuits as well.
For the last five or six years they have actually decided to follow the law as much as I can figure. Does not mean they want to, but they have been.
Howdy Pardner!
Whichever court hands down a ruling, whether it be the 10th circuit or the 7th, the handwriting is on the wall. I believe the courts will come down on the side of the Constitution, and Denver's OC ban will be busted. Same with Illinois. Their ban on carry simply isn't constitutional, and I'd think after Heller, they'd have figured things out and moved on to provide citizens with the respect they serve for the rights guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.
That is one reason people are so anxious for the courts to move on this. How much longer will people be denied their rights under the Constitution? How much longer will the people of Illinois not have the same rights as Americans across this nation enjoy? How long will the people of Illinois be subjected to tyrannical discrimination against their citizens?
I believe the courts will knock down the kangaroo limitations on 2a in Denver or the entire state of Illinois. The handwriting has been on the wall since Heller. The cops know it in Denver, and may explain why they don't much bother people who dare OC in their jurisdiction. I've done so myself, but I've always been on private property. I once visited a Bellco on the wrong side of the street, which was Denver's territory. They had a Denver cop sitting in the lobby at a desk evidently as bank security guard type of deal. He didn't like that I was OC, but he wasn't working for the City of Denver, he was working for the bank at the time. And since I was on bank property (private) his authority was limited. Since the bank had no problems with my OC, he really had no authority to act because he was working for the bank!
I've carried open in Denver territory, but always on private property, and no private property owner has ever evidenced a problem with my OC'ing at their locations.
Even if a DPD officer was sitting in the parking lot in his car, he really couldn't do much about it. After all, he cannot write a ticket to somebody in that parking lot either, unless contacted by the property owner to do so.
Blessings,
M-Taliesin