Crime & Police

One DA says truth-in-sentencing has been eviscerated.

Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca is proposing a ballot initiative that would turn Denver’s sheriff, currently a mayoral appointment, into an elected position.

A national law firm wants to take the case to the next level.

Discoveries at the facilities included a bag filled with genitalia.

No criminal charges will be pressed in the Elijah McClain case.

For many years, a backlog in the system has kept mentally ill people in jails and state hospitals while they wait for evaluation and services to determine whether they are competent to stand trial. A new MCHD program is part of a push to treat these people in the community.

Thirteen individuals have been charged with violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act

Lawrence Stoker was with De’Von Bailey when the latter was killed.

Curtis Arganbright was originally sentenced to just ninety days.

Dion Damon’s wife watched the killing from twenty feet away.

Two men have been charged after police seized a form of fentanyl that hasn’t yet been found in Colorado.

She stood up to her attacker in court. The jury found him guilty. So why isn’t he in prison?

Attorney General Phil Weiser announced the formation of the partnership, which will focus on training law enforcement and helping those targeted.

Reported hate crime incidents went down across the country in 2018. But in Colorado, they went up that same year.

One attorney asks, “Is this justice?”

Elijah McClain’s family was “devastated” by the report.

The settlement was offered before a lawsuit could be filed.

Officials are worried that fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that substantially increases the risk of overdose, is making its way into Colorado’s drug supply.

Jillian White was well known at the jail where she died.

Effie Krokos says, “I just wanted to be equal to a guy.”

Denver is looking at adopting a program in which some 911 calls that police would otherwise handle would instead be diverted to mental health experts whose goal is to stabilize the crisis.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is executing search warrants around Denver today, November 7, in conjunction with local law enforcement agencies.