DENVER (AP) -- Denver police and public works officials released details Thursday of the items they found stashed around the city before and during the Democratic National Convention.

Police have said the removal of the items, whether they were intentionally stashed by people planning violence or not, may have played a part in keeping the peace during the DNC.

Police and public works officials disclosed that the confiscated items included multiple bags of feces stockpiled in Lower Downtown, an estimated 200 bottles of human urine in a vacant house, 30 to 40 stakes that were about 6 feet long, broken hockey sticks near the Colorado Convention Center, and a gas can and two propane tanks chained to fences in LoDo.

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