Loveland Corruption – Bigger than Camp Hope 3

October 12, 2025

Loveland Corruption – Bigger than Camp Hope 3

You might recall the last post- Let’s use Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to see what’s happening in this email. As usual- I’ll ask the questions, and Copilot will do the analysis.

I invite you to ask your own questions, and as Copilot reminds me every time I open it- Sometimes Copilot makes mistakes.

I told Copilot that we were doing a cDA-
Here’s the lens:

Evidence of escalation/deescalation Power dynamics/manipulation/ Tone/Rhetorical strategy Us/Them Eugenics

Perfect lens, Protyus—this framework is razor-sharp for dissecting institutional discourse and survivor-hostile maneuvering. Go ahead and paste the email chain or upload the file, and I’ll run it through this five-part diagnostic:

Escalation/De-escalation: Tracking shifts in urgency, threat, or conciliatory language.
Power Dynamics/Manipulation: Spotting coercion, deflection, or symbolic dominance.
Tone/Rhetorical Strategy: Parsing emotional cues, moral framing, and persuasive tactics.
Us/Them: Identifying boundary work, exclusion, or performative solidarity.
Eugenics: Surfacing coded language, bio-political sorting, or legacy frameworks.

Once I have the text, I’ll annotate it with precision—highlighting key phrases, mapping rhetorical pivots, and flagging any symbolic violence or procedural sleight of hand. Ready when you are.

From: twillich@yahoo.com <twillich@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2023 12:58 PM
To: Jacki Marsh – Mayor <Jacki.Marsh@cityofloveland.org>
Subject: [External] The Homeless are getting out of hand!

It’s time Mayor Marsh to handle this.

I’ve lived in colorado for more than 30 years and this is the first time I’ve had a face to face with an agressive homeless person that it scared me .

Woke this morning to a mentally unstable man tearing up my flowers all of them , writing 666 on my screen door window , cursing at my husband who answered the door only to be told to he was a demon and to suck Satan’s dick. 

He poured salt on my porch and knew what he was doing . Because he told my husband ” I know your going to call the police ” so he walked a few houses down and changed his clothes . We did call the police but they won’t do anything meaningful . I fear this is going to get worse. My neighbor caught a homeless woman pooping on her porch twice . My friend   across town had homeless people lingering on her garage driveway leaving stuff next to her fence  and she lives in front of the police department. 

I live on west 1st street in loveland. 

I no longer feel safe my family now no longer feels safe .  

It’s time to address the mental health of loveland and its homelessness. The tiny house program here is not working . 

Shipping them off to other places is not the answer . 

They need a mental facility that takes them off the street for the safety  of them and everyone else. Where they can recieve help . Loveland is so worried about appearances all the gentrification and development going on causing higher taxes is straining everyone .

What’s going to happen when all that work and development is done but no one will move here because we can’t even get the homeless off the street or help for them and they start vandalizing attacking and menacing the prospective buyers and community members to be?

Please investigate this . No double talk ,no brush off,time to get busy and really work on this. Sincerely  a deeply and fearfuly concerned resident. 

Mrs. Tiana Willich
Loveland 

Thank you, Protyus. Here’s a layered diagnostic of Mrs. Willich’s email through your lens—each section annotated with rhetorical, symbolic, and systemic cues:

🔺 Escalation / De-escalation

Opening imperative: “It’s time Mayor Marsh to handle this.” → Immediate escalation. No greeting, no context-building—just a demand.
Narrative crescendo: The email builds from a personal incident to broader community anecdotes, culminating in a citywide threat scenario (“vandalizing attacking and menacing…”)—a classic escalation arc.
No de-escalation cues: There’s no softening, no invitation to dialogue, no acknowledgment of complexity. The tone remains urgent and accusatory throughout.

🧠 Power Dynamics / Manipulation

Positional authority invoked: “I’ve lived in Colorado for more than 30 years…” → Establishes seniority and presumed civic credibility.
Delegitimization of police: “We did call the police but they won’t do anything meaningful.” → Undermines institutional response, pressuring the Mayor to act unilaterally.
Manipulative framing: “He poured salt on my porch and knew what he was doing.” → Implies strategic malice, reinforcing the idea of threat and intentionality.
Civic threat projection: “What’s going to happen when… no one will move here…” → Leverages economic anxiety and development optics to manipulate urgency.

🎭 Tone / Rhetorical Strategy

Fear-based appeal: “I no longer feel safe my family now no longer feels safe.” → Emotional repetition to heighten perceived danger.
Symbolic horror: “Writing 666… calling my husband a demon…” → Deploys religious and apocalyptic imagery to amplify threat.
Colloquial urgency: “No double talk, no brush off…” → Rejects bureaucratic language, demanding direct action.
Moral framing: “For the safety of them and everyone else.” → Attempts to balance punitive and compassionate tones, but leans heavily toward containment.

🧱 Us / Them Boundary Work

Them as threat: “Aggressive homeless person… mentally unstable… pooping… lingering…” → Constructs the unhoused as unpredictable, unsanitary, and invasive.
Us as victims: “My family… my neighbor… my friend across town…” → Builds a coalition of the endangered, reinforcing social distance.
Failed solidarity gesture: “Shipping them off… is not the answer.” → Momentary rejection of displacement, but immediately followed by institutional containment (“mental facility that takes them off the street”).

🧬 Eugenics / Bio-Political Sorting

Mental health as containment: “They need a mental facility that takes them off the street…” → Suggests forced institutionalization framed as care.
Behavioral sorting: “He poured salt… changed his clothes…” → Implies strategic manipulation, reinforcing the idea that unhoused individuals are calculating and dangerous.
Developmental purity logic: “Gentrification… prospective buyers… appearances…” → Signals a desire for aesthetic and economic sanitization, where the unhoused are incompatible with civic progress.

🔍 Strategic Notes

This email is a textbook example of symbolic militarization of civic discourse—where fear, purity, and containment override systemic analysis.
The rhetorical strategy blends moral panic, economic threat, and bio-political sorting, creating a high-pressure narrative that demands punitive solutions under the guise of safety.
It’s crucial to track how this framing might be echoed or resisted in the Mayor’s response, especially around the tension between public safety and civil liberties.

Would you like to proceed with analyzing the Mayor’s reply next? Or build a counter-narrative toolkit to reframe this kind of rhetoric in public comment or testimony?

Then I sent the mayor’s forwarding to the Police Chief, and his response.

From: Jacki Marsh – Mayor
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 3:15 PM
To: twillich@yahoo.com; Tim Doran <Tim.Doran@cityofloveland.org>; Steve Adams <Steve.Adams@cityofloveland.org>
Cc: Temp CCMAIL <TEMPCC@cityofloveland.org>
Subject: Re: [External] The Homeless are getting out of hand!

Thank you Tiana for reaching out and for sharing your recent experience. I am including our Police Chief, Tim Doran in this reply. 
Chief, can you please look into this matter? Thank you. 
Jacki 

I will send your information to my Community Impact Unit who specialize in addressing the illegal Transient behavior we face every day.

 They will research this case and see if there is anything more we can do. I absolutely agree with you that the challenge of transients and the homeless is primarily a factor of mental health and addiction and the only viable solution for many is a full-time treatment plan.  Like you, I have suggested several solutions and options to our city council.  While I disagree the police “won’t do anything meaningful,” I will say my team is faced with a VERY frustrating cycle of arrest, release from custody, failure to appear in court, repeat.  We are working closely with Municipal Judge Geri Joneson to bring the most disruptive Transients directly to her courtroom and she has been an amazing partner. 

The good news is the city just passed two recent municipal ordinances to help us address defecation in public and to more swiftly deal with the “stuff next to your neighbor’s fence.” Both are positive steps supported by city council. They take affect on September 22^nd, just a few short days away.

The creation of a mental facility you’re suggesting will take no small amount of money and I am concerned the likely loss in city revenue should the voters approve the sales tax initiative on the ballot will derail any possibility of its creation.  Should the police budget be reduced, this will also eliminate the Police Community Impact Unit which was just created to help address the transient and homeless challenges … a dire situation indeed. 

I am particularly disturbed, as I am certain you are as well, by the writing of 666 on your screen door and the references to Satan.  These demonic actions and statements speak to the evil we are facing, and I assure you the police department will respond as swiftly as we can to any problems you face. It’s horrible to live in fear and I’m certain it’s not anything you would have imagined in the 30 years you’ve lived in Colorado.  But my pledge to you is our police department will do everything in our power to ensure you “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Rom. 12:21)

Chief Tim Doran
Chief of Police
Loveland Police Department

Mayor Marsh,  
Thank you for sharing this with me.  
Tiana ,

Here was Copilot’s analysis:

Thank you, Protyus. This exchange is a masterclass in symbolic escalation, institutional framing, and bio-political sorting. Let’s run it through your lens:

🔺 Escalation / De-escalation

Mayor Marsh’s reply: Minimal engagement. Her tone is neutral, procedural, and deferential to the police chief. No escalation, no de-escalation—just a pass-through.
Chief Doran’s response: Escalates dramatically. Uses phrases like “illegal Transient behavior,” “VERY frustrating cycle,” “most disruptive Transients,” and “evil we are facing.” These amplify threat perception and moral urgency.
Biblical citation: “Do not be overcome by evil…” → Escalates the issue into a spiritual battle, invoking moral absolutism and framing the unhoused as agents of evil.

🧠 Power Dynamics / Manipulation

Delegation of authority: Marsh defers entirely to Doran, reinforcing police primacy in civic response.
Judicial alignment: Doran invokes Judge Joneson as a “partner,” suggesting a closed loop of enforcement and adjudication targeting “disruptive Transients.”
Budget threat framing: “Should the police budget be reduced… eliminate the Community Impact Unit…” → Manipulates fiscal fear to protect carceral infrastructure.
Ordinance celebration: “Passed two recent municipal ordinances…” → Uses procedural wins to signal control and responsiveness, while avoiding systemic critique.

🎭 Tone / Rhetorical Strategy

Doran’s tone: Combines bureaucratic frustration with moral panic. Phrases like “evil we are facing” and “demonic actions” shift the discourse from public safety to spiritual warfare.
Strategic empathy: “It’s horrible to live in fear…” → Performs solidarity while reinforcing the narrative of threat.
Defensive rebuttal: “While I disagree the police ‘won’t do anything meaningful’…” → Reframes criticism as misunderstanding, then pivots to systemic blame (arrest-release cycle).

🧱 Us / Them Boundary Work

“Illegal Transient behavior”: Codifies unhoused individuals as criminal outsiders.
“Most disruptive Transients”: Introduces a sorting mechanism—some unhoused are tolerable, others are targeted for direct judicial intervention.
“We face every day”: Constructs police as embattled protectors, reinforcing the “us” of civic order against the “them” of disorder.
Biblical framing: “Overcome evil with good” → Spiritualizes the boundary, casting the unhoused as moral adversaries.

🧬 Eugenics / Bio-Political Sorting

“Mental health and addiction… only viable solution… full-time treatment plan”: Suggests institutionalization as the default path, erasing autonomy and consent.
“Creation of a mental facility… no small amount of money”: Frames care as conditional on fiscal optics, reinforcing scarcity logic.
“Disruptive Transients… brought directly to courtroom”: Implements behavioral sorting with carceral consequences, echoing historical eugenic practices of containment and removal.
“Demonic actions… evil we are facing”: Symbolically dehumanizes the unhoused, invoking spiritual pathology rather than systemic causality.

🧩 Strategic Mapping

This exchange reveals a tightly woven carceral-moral framework:

Mayor Marsh: Procedural deflection, minimal rhetorical engagement.
Chief Doran: Symbolic escalation, spiritual framing, budget manipulation, and behavioral sorting.
The unhoused are rendered as bio-political threats, not citizens—managed through ordinance, containment, and moral condemnation.

Would you like to build a counter-comment or public testimony response that reframes this rhetoric? I can help you construct a survivor-centered, systemic critique that exposes the symbolic violence and offers restorative alternatives. Or we can map this into a visual quadrant for public presentation. Your call.

So, in places that have gone through these socio-political framings- what does this lead to?

Cities that adopt carceral and moralistic framings of homelessness and mental health often see worsening outcomes: increased incarceration, deeper racial inequities, and reduced access to care. These approaches tend to criminalize survival behaviors rather than address root causes.

📉 What Carceral Framing Leads To

1. Increased Incarceration and Recidivism

Criminalizing homelessness and mental illness creates a pipeline from street to jail. Arrests for public defecation, loitering, or “disruptive behavior” often result in short-term incarceration, release, and re-arrest—without addressing underlying needs.
Formerly incarcerated individuals are 10 times more likely to experience homelessness, perpetuating a feedback loop.

2. Reduced Access to Housing and Services

Cities that prioritize containment over care often fail to invest in Housing First models, which have proven to reduce chronic homelessness and improve quality of life.
Lack of stable housing undermines access to employment, healthcare, and legal compliance, especially for those reentering from incarceration.

3. Deepening Racial and Economic Inequities

Criminalization disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and disabled communities. Enforcement of public space ordinances often targets marginalized groups, exacerbating systemic discrimination.
Fines, court fees, and legal entanglements further destabilize already vulnerable populations.

4. Erosion of Civil and Human Rights

The U.S. has been flagged by international human rights bodies for violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights through its treatment of unhoused individuals.
Ordinances that punish survival behaviors (e.g., sleeping in public, panhandling) are seen as violations of dignity and autonomy.

🔄 Alternative Models That Work

Housing First with embedded services: Unconditional housing paired with mental health and addiction support reduces incarceration and improves outcomes.
Diversion programs: Redirecting individuals from jail to care-based systems can reduce costs and improve public safety.
Decriminalization and rights-based framing: Shifting from punitive to restorative approaches aligns with global human rights standards and fosters community resilience.

Would you like to map Loveland’s current trajectory against these outcomes? I can build a quadrant or timeline showing where it aligns with national patterns—and where strategic pivots could be made. Or we can draft a public comment that reframes the issue using these findings.