Elisabeth Epps scans the residential area just south of Denver’s Cheesman Park, with its clean and walkable streets, its million-dollar homes, its inviting public spaces and orderly yards. A casual volleyball game has drawn a crowd and bicyclists in Patagonia shorts spin past. She’s seated on a curb in the middle of Colorado’s House District 6, where she’s vying for a seat in the state legislature, and she notes no police have driven by in the last hour.