Crime & Police

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.

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen has revealed that one person has been arrested and an injured party is suspected to have been involved in an exchange of gunfire during a quintuple shooting near 21st and Lawrence streets on November 19.

The latest information about an afternoon shooting near 21st and Lawrence reveals one death, four injuries and lots of questions.

A woman abused by a former University of Colorado assistant coach reacts to the firing of head coach Mike MacIntyre, to whom she reached out for help.

The sentencing of Chris Watts, who has confessed to killing his wife and two daughters, won’t end the media’s fascination with the story.

Of the 2,800-plus aggravated assaults that took place in Denver during 2017, law enforcement have yet to clear more than a thousand.

Hate crime figures collected by the FBI probable understate the problem according to an expert from Colorado’s branch of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Denver Film Festival’s executive director defends a red-carpet screening of a new movie that opens with a graphic school shooting scene inspired by Columbine.

During 2017, more than 1,200 crimes involving non-consensual sex were committed in Denver, including more than 500 rapes, of which fewer than 50 percent were cleared by law enforcement.

Denver Police Department crime statistics reveal the specifics behind the city’s 58 murders in 2017.

A Colorado woman has won a judgement against a Denver police officer eight years after he sexually assaulted her while on duty.

A group of social justice activists seeks to bring renewed attention to Colorado’s long-buried history of lynchings — and to confront one particularly shocking and grotesque episode.

If Caring 4 Denver passes, the initiative would allocate 10 percent of its revenue to the Denver Police Department’s co-responder unit.

The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear a bizarre case that combines jury nullification, juror tampering and a grisly murder that left five people dead.

Pam Fine has launched a petition decrying a potential plea deal with ex-University of Colorado Boulder assistant football coach Joe Tumpkin, who’s been charged with assaulting her.

Denver police are doing forensics work on a vehicle that may have been involved in a hit-and-run that injured six members of a homeless camp near Westword’s Tenth and Broadway office.

Here’s why George Brauchler thinks he should be the next Colorado attorney general.

Here’s why Phil Weiser thinks he should be the next Colorado Attorney General.

A Denver Police Department division chief explains why, how and when “Shelter in Place” notices are used.

The attorney for the family of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in 1996, weighs in on the latest development in a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS on behalf of her brother, Burke Ramsey.

A Halloween store is using a killer clown costume display on the same block where Christian Gulzow committed murder while wearing clown-like makeup last year.