Crime & Police

Over nine years after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up the NYC subway system, Najibullah Zazi will be sentenced in federal court.

Pais is said to be “infatuated” with the Columbine school shooting.

Daniel Flesner was charged with invasion of privacy for sexual gratification and tampering with physical evidence.

Officer Jeremy Ownbey allegedly likened an intern to a prostitute several times during an eight-hour ride-along.

The incident flowed from a late-night carjacking in Aurora.

The cops responsible for the beating have been repeatedly fired and un-fired over a ten-year period.

Untreated mental illness led to a greater crime and is now at the center of two new pieces of legislation.

A new report reveals the strain the increasing number of drug felonies, many for simple possession, are putting on the Colorado prison system.

There are a rising number of suicides among inmates in rural jails, but the phenomenon is taking place in larger facilities, too.

A bill that would end capital punishment in Colorado has been introduced at the legislature.

James Nelson has been fighting for almost eleven years over a bike crash that nearly cost him his life.

An in-custody suicide at a Western Colorado jail that prompted a lawsuit is one of four in fewer than three years at the same facility.

The fifteen unsolved homicides from one recent year in Denver share more in common than tragedy.

A new audit report criticizes the Denver sheriff’s handcuffing protocol.

Twenty years after the day that changed everything, Columbine has also become a case study for the long-range trauma inflicted by a mass shooting.

One expert sees a rising number of kratom addictions, while another characterizes it as still fairly rare.

Representative Leslie Herod believes the proposal would create a fairer judicial system.

Identity Evropa is now the American Identity Movement, but those fighting against the group aren’t fooled by the change.

People of color in Boulder look upon law enforcement with considerably less trust than white residents.

If police were following best practices established over forty years ago, the shooting would not have happened.

The shooting on the block is at least the third since September, and the second one to prove deadly.

In 2017, 1,781 nuisance cases made their way through Denver’s courts, up from about 1,300 in 2012.