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Residents press Commerce City for answers on drones, traffic racing and local drainage; manager outlines responses
Summary
Residents testified that police drone capacity, camera monitoring and chronic flooding remain unresolved; City Manager Jason Rogers told council the department has six authorized pilots, four technicians in training, uses drones on priority calls and is launching multimodal improvements including drainage work on 68th Avenue.
Two residents used the public‑comment period at the Dec. 1 council meeting to press the city on neighborhood safety, police drone operations, traffic enforcement and drainage repairs.
Jackie Valdez told council she has repeatedly sought help for alarms and traffic in her neighborhood and said she was concerned that the police drone program was undersized, asking, "how many drones we have, how much we got coming, how many people we…
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