Denver area police are hard on their homeless. OMG I've had more than my share of problems with them in our former family home of 50+ years in Tampa. We've had to run them off our property many times. Once we found one under our house (on pedestals) gas wall furnace - Keeping warm.

The police come out and run them off. Trespass is an offense that requires a warning or posting in Florida. But they never took their belongings like backpacks. Last may when I was there a poor cute little homeless gal captured me for a brief audience. She was standing on where I70 exits onto Kipling, way far from downtown, not blocking traffic and not being aggressive as a panhandler. I brought the topic up, not her. She told me that just yesterday the cops rousted her and took her backpack.

Our local homeless coalition, while being far from perfect, gives away backpacks to the homeless.

Bit I have to admit there is a serious problem in areas of downtown Denver.