About The Blue Feather Project
Crime maps of Red Feather Lakes (RFL) consistently show the unincorporated areas of Larimer County, Colorado where the Red Feather Lakes Village is located as red or orange representing some the highest per-capita crime rates in the county (depending the specific crime). Because the FBI does not gather independent crime statistic on the very rural areas of RFL some poorly constructed automated web tools will erroneously report RFL as low-crime but only for lack of specific data.
Your chance of becoming a victim of a home burglary, car theft, vehicle crash from a drunk or high driver or assaulted are greater in RFL than most of the rest of Larimer County.
The RFL Blue Feather Project is a privately funded 3-year plan to reduce crime in RFL to rates lower than the more densely populated areas of our county within 36 months. In other words, turn these crime maps from red or orange to green for RFL and surrounding areas by reducing the number of crimes in our area through greater collaboration between law-abiding residents, increasing support for the Sheriff’s Department when conducting investigations and by drawing the community closer together around a worthy cause.
One common problem is the volume of new people who see our limited and distant law enforcement support as an opportunity to relocate here. Often, this is due to suspended driving privileges, active warrants in other counties for lesser crimes (Larimer County Sheriff has limited funds to extradite fugitives therefore is selective) and the general sense that RFL crimes are not investigated or pursued as diligently as maybe crimes in Greeley, Grand Junction or Ft. Collins.
Fortunately, RFL is home to a large number of retired law-enforcement officers, an ever growing number of security and game cameras on private properties and more people online than ever before.
By synchronizing data and helping investigators connect dots between littering to vandalism, trespassing to burglary and drug addiction to drug distribution the Blue Feather Project intends to make a significant impact on the growing crime in our community.
