Crime & Police

Chase Bishop was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation, which he is allowed to complete out of state.

A new study about the impact of imprisonment on both inmates and their families offers startling insights into the situation in Colorado.

Reform advocates offer their argument against Colorado spending $40 million for prison expansion.

A wrongful death lawsuit against a Denver police officer with a controversial tattoo should have a trial date within weeks.

After a drug bust in May targeting members of Denver’s “Burner” and festival community, Aspen Walkingstick faced multiple felonies. A jury delivered its verdict on Tuesday, December 18.

Pam Fine talks about the challenges in speaking out against a wrist slap for her abuser, former CU Buffs assistant coach Joe Tumpkin.

An arrest has been made in the September 28 murder of a security guard on one of the hottest blocks in Lower Downtown Denver.

After a drug bust in May targeting members of Denver’s Burning Man community, a defendant’s trial starts today in which her attorney will argue her case reflects a broader assault on alternative living and an over-zealous expression of the Drug War.

A man ordered to spend ninety days in jail for chalking a sidewalk is astonished that the police officer who arrested him earned the same-length sentence for an on-duty sex crime.

The victim just wanted a ride home. Instead, he was battered by security guards charged with keeping Union Station safe.

Randall Shaun Butler is charged with two counts of sexual assault and has resigned from the force.

An attorney representing the family of a man who was shot and killed by police moments after he had himself shot a home intruder blasts the decision to clear the officer who pulled the trigger.

A new lawsuit seeks to make sure that Chris Watts won’t derive a profit from any media projects about his murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters.

A woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the drowning death of a nine-year-old girl, but has received no jail time for the offense.

“I don’t know about that, but they need to stop that racist shit.”

The decision to launch a death penalty prosecution against a man accused of killing a deputy presents a challenge to Governor-elect Jared Polis, who opposes capital punishment.

In Denver during 2017, more than 1,200 robberies were reported, but fewer than 500 have been cleared by law enforcement, leaving victims’ odds of seeing justice done at far less than fifty-fifty.

The coroner’s office has identified the man killed in a Ballpark shooting allegedly involving gang members as a 59-year-old former Marine.

A seventy-year-old retired bus driver is currently in a Denver jail on a 34-year-old case he thought had been resolved in the 1980s.

One person was killed in the incident.

Sentenced to life in prison for a crime that occurred when he was seventeen, Jeff Johnson is one of the first of Colorado’s juvie lifers to be released.

A loophole that allowed a man convicted of sexual assault on a child to be convicted of a much lesser charge needs to be closed legislatively, says a Colorado district attorney.