Crime & Police

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.”

“It is the goal of our department to provide accurate information to our community,” says a DPD spokesperson.

“I’m not in shock anymore, but the grief and pain is with me all the time, and I imagine it always will be.”

According to the Denver Police Department, crime was down 33 percent in 2023 across the city.

Over 110 offenses have been reported in the past six months, making the block along Ogden between 14th and Colfax the most crime-ridden block in Capitol Hill.

The outerwear plays a key role in the mayor’s Clean and Safe Downtown Initiative, as does an existing Downtown Denver Partnership app that already had the same name.

From Soapy Smith in the 1880s to James Hogue in the 2020s, scammers are a staple of Colorado.

The sentencing will wrap up criminal matters related to the incident; Officer Brandon Ramos already received eighteen months probation…after shooting seven people.