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It can be telling how some folks define the word “community.”
The bubble in which Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's administration operates became all too apparent...
Mayor Michael Hancock is responding to a scathing report about the city’s dysfunctional sheriff's department by relying on the same people responsible for years...
It has been three and a half months since Denver police fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez. And the world has changed.
Police killings in...
Baltimore has in the past four years paid out $5.7 million in police brutality settlements, The Baltimore Sun reported last fall. Since Freddie Gray’s death two...
In 2010, deputies choked and killed street-preacher Marvin Booker in the Denver jail. Last year, his family won a $4.6 million civil settlement from...
A Denver sheriff's deputy attempted to use a Taser on an apparent vagrant the same morning a jury slapped the city with an historic penalty in the death of a homeless man Tasered by deputies at the city jail.
DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman this morning spoke with Pastor Reginald Holmes and Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene on the historic excessive-force verdict handed down against Denver on Tuesday.
Speakers led a call to action, asking Denver residents and officials to work together to change the culture of abuse that has marked security force interactions with residents for decades.