Subject: Police

• Guerrillas in the Midst

  When terrorism hits home, Gary Cunningham will be ready.

  October 15, 1998

• Denver Police's "BEAT the crowds" shirt riles up Re-create 68

  September 25, 2008

• Teen bites cop. Cop saps teen. Teen sues cop. Denver cops should sap the sap.

  October 2, 2008

• End-of-School Sale

  How a mad dash to a Wyoming arms dealer helped Boulder quell its riots.

  January 8, 1998

• You're Under Arrest, Sir

  The Denver Police Department regulates what some say it shouldn't even have to think about.

  November 19, 1998

• Driving while shmucked up

  October 31, 2008

• Best helicopter footage

  June 29, 2000

• A Bulky Blue Line

  May 26, 2005

• The Siege

  The new sheriff vowed to clean up the town of San Luis. For many locals, the price was too high.

  June 21, 2001

• Blood In, Blood Out

  Danny Ray Lopez couldn’t outrun his gang life or the police. Will his brother follow in his footsteps?

  January 13, 2000

• Rent-a-Cop

  April 17, 2008

• Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game

  Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.

  April 3, 2008

• Follow That Story

  Pick a Card

  April 14, 2005

• True Blue

  The lives of cops form the core for a peek behind the stereotype.

  April 3, 2003

• Excessive Force

  Citizen complaints and a brutal arrest heat up the sheriff's race in Park County.

  October 17, 2002

• Tape Worms

  The camera doesn't lie -- but every picture tells more than one story.

  February 7, 2002

• Target Practice

  A class-action suit becomes a vehicle for racial justice.

  January 25, 2001

• Off Limits

  On the razor's edge

  March 30, 2000

• Left for Dead

  When the Aurora cops finished investigating the crime scene, they’d missed one crucial piece of evidence: Alan Conner’s body.

  March 9, 2000

• Unlawful Entry

  The high price of Denver's drug war: lies, bad busts, cops in harm's way -— and the death of an innocent man.

  February 24, 2000

• Sad But True

  And God said Ha! (Can you blame Him?)

  December 30, 1999

• The Beat Goes On

  March 25, 1999

• Same As It Ever Was

  March 18, 1999

• Punch Tickets, Not Crooks

  Should RTD concentrate on running buses--or paying cops to make busts?

  November 5, 1998

• Hell to the Chiefs

  What's happening to Colorado's top cops?

  February 26, 1998

• Fill'er Up

  In Trinidad, you don't have to drink in bars in wind up behind bars

  October 2, 1997

• The People's Hired Gun

  A private attorney defends the city's honor--and her hefty legal bills, which you are paying.

  September 18, 1997

• Putting the Boulder Police on Report

  June 19, 1997

• Citizen's Arrest

  A Denver reverend with a stubborn streak keeps the city's police-watchdog commission on its toes--and off-balance

  June 5, 1997

• Who Slugged the Sheriff?

  Two Denver deputies square off in a political fight that gets physical.

  April 10, 1997

• Rush to Judgment

  Commerce City lets a private company issue speeding tickets--and causes a pileup.

  April 10, 1997

• Black Marks

  The Denver Police Department acts like it has something to hide about its clash with students at Thomas Jefferson High School. It does.

  December 19, 1996

• The Dunlap Subplot

  While Nathan was being convicted, his family huddled with the police.

  February 29, 1996

• BAD REVIEWS

  DENVER'S POLICE-REVIEW BOARD FACES A SHOWDOWN.

  November 15, 1995

• DOUBLE EXPOSUREUNDERAGE GIRLS, A NAZI WITH A CAMERA, AND PARTYING COPS--WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

  September 20, 1995

• THE HOT ZONE

  SOME OF DENVER'S HOUSING INSPECTORS ARE NOW PACKING HEAT.

  May 10, 1995

• FIGHTING IT OUT IN BOULDER

  STREET PEOPLE IN THE COLLEGE TOWN ENLIST HELP IN THEIR BATTLE AGAINST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

  November 23, 1994

• MAKING A CASE FOR MURDER

  THE CIPRIANI BROTHERS WILL TRY TO PROVE IN CIVIL COURT THAT TROOPER BOB BENEFIEL KILLED THEIR SISTER.

  November 2, 1994

• COP-A-DOODLE-DOO!

  NAME-CALLING, INNUENDO AND A FLAP OVER A STUFFED CHICKEN: IT'S POLITICS AS USUAL IN THE ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF'S RACE.

  September 28, 1994

• LIGHTS! CAMERA! LAWSUIT!

  CATCH THE COURTROOM CONCLUSION TO THIS REAL-LIFE COP DRAMA.

  June 1, 1994

• LAWS OF CHANCE

  May 18, 1994

• A LONG GESTATION

  A FORMER SHERIDAN COP, FIRED WHEN SHE BECAME PREGNANT, FINALLY SETTLES A LAWSUIT.

  February 2, 1994

• Psychic Reaction

  She beleives in extraterrestrials and ESP, but some cops feel Kelly Roberts's mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  January 12, 1994

• Colorado Crimes: Aurora police chief insists officer-involved shooting justified

  Aurora Police Chief Daniel J. Oates. While the Aurora Police Department still hasn't officially confirmed that eighteen-year-old Darius Murray was the person seriously wounded in an officer-involved shooting over the weekend, complaints from his family about so-called "inconsistencies" in the APD's reports prompted the following statement from Police Chief Daniel J. Oates: "There is no question in my mind that this shooting was justified. The suspect was armed and attempted to kill two police o

  May 13, 2009

• Hey, drunk drivers: Get busted here tonight

  The "100 Days of Heat" campaign, in which local police agencies step up their efforts to put drunk drivers behind bars before they can kill anyone, is in full force this weekend in at least a couple of local municipalities. Lakewood is announcing a handful of sobriety checkpoints to be put in place tonight, while Boulder wants boozers too stupid to take a cab to know they'll be offering free breath tests Saturday night into Sunday morning. Click "Continue" to get details about where and when.

  June 19, 2009

• Colorado Crimes: Brian Christopher Naranjo shouldn't have drawn that gun

  Brian Christopher Naranjo.​The press releases issued in the wake of yesterday's officers-involved shooting suggest that Longmont resident Brian Christopher Naranjo, 35, had numerous opportunities to avoid getting shot and killed. Naranjo, who's been arrested in the past for everything from forgery to menacing (and was wanted on a failure-to-appear traffic charge), led cops on a chase through Longmont, and after being brought to a halt by an intentional crash, he reacted to a shotgun blast

  August 11, 2009

• Denver Police Department just discovers it's on Twitter

  ​Members of the local media are seldom effusive about the timeliness and responsiveness of the Denver Police Department's public-information office -- and a release issued today exemplifies its effectiveness. or lack thereof. "The Denver Police Department would like the community to know they can now follow the DPD on Twitter," the document announces. But then, a sentence later, the item adds that the department has been employing the service for two months. Indeed, we published a blog abo

  August 17, 2009

• Here's something those new CU cops can do with their time

  ​With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols -- and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan to reduce crime on campus. Meanwhile, the BPD is ballyhooing a bust not far from the school, during which a cop riding a bike on the Boulder Creek path stumbled on a robbery in progress, leading to the arre

  August 21, 2009

• TOWN HAUL

  May 18, 1994

• Ol' Westminster gunfight: Two bank robbers killed, two cops shot

  Deputy Chief Tim Carlson and Senior Police Officer Sean Chandler were both shot in the melee.​The explosion of violence that took place in Westminster yesterday harks back to the days when the law rode horses and gunmen died young 'n' purty. As the Westminster Police Department tells it, a thus-far-unidentified man and woman stuck up the First Bank on 120th Avenue, then tried to make their getaway in a Subaru -- a vehicle slightly more impressive than the bicycle a bank robber in Lakewood

  November 20, 2009