Crime & Police

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What was supposed to be a day of community outreach and holistic anti-crime work turned into an episode of Cops.

Denver’s Public Safety director went back and forth with members of the public during a recent Citizens Oversight Board event.

“It’s not about this one officer. It’s about this type of behavior – this type of misconduct not being acceptable.”

Shengfu Wu, 38, will be eligible for parole in August 2028.

After receiving congressional funding, Denver police and mental health experts will have extra patrols on Ogden Street through the summer.

Attorneys for Zachary Kwak, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik and Joseph Koenig have filed court motions revealing new information related to their murder cases.

Since 2010, the juvenile murder rate in Colorado has skyrocketed by 210 percent, while violent crime as a whole is up 7 percent.

The cops found the Kittredge resident covered in blood, with an airline e-ticket to Switzerland.

Police across the state warn residents against scam calls from fake bank employees.

John Ramsey spoke to Westword about the recent release of longtime person of interest Gary Oliva and his alleged confessions to JonBenét’s murder.

A teenager’s murder last year revealed years of havoc wreaked by one Denver rental owner.

The teenager allegedly shot and killed a sixty-year-old grandfather after an argument over blocking the aisle.

The block of Ogden Street between 14th and Colfax avenues has become the most crime-ridden stretch in Capitol Hill.

“Every time he is escorted to an area, the other inmates start threatening him.”

A man was arrested after he smashed the Electric Dream’s door in with a metal bar and “verbally accosted” a worker last week, according to the DPD.

Miles Harford is not the first Coloradan accused of abandoning bodies and providing fake ashes.

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of Unique Martinez, who allegedly drove through the 16th Street Mall and then hit a parked car.

“This gentleman shoved my waitress so hard out of the way that she fell on the ground, and he bolted out the front door,” recalls Aurora City Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky. “It upset me so bad.”

Ajenai Clemmons helped establish the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor before completing research showing that some Black Americans want more policing.

Glenn Braden has been found competent to stand trial in Jefferson County on fifteen felony counts of unlawful sexual conduct, indecent exposure, attempted sexual assault and more.

Interim police chief Stephen Redfearn came to Boulder from Aurora: “What I would say is, give me a chance.”