Occasionally, law enforcement officers need to intervene in a crime in progress or apprehend someone who may have broken the law. Officers receive extensive training and specialized equipment to help them do their jobs as safely as possible. Ideally, officers can...
In recent years, police brutality has gained significant attention and sparked intense debates worldwide. One potential solution the ever-present risk of brutality is the recording of law enforcement officers during their interactions with the public. Recording law...
In recent years, there’s been an increasing awareness that law enforcement officers all too frequently take the law into their own hands. In many cases, they decide that they can act with impunity – as if they are the law or are simply above it. Recently, the city of...
If you followed the story of George Floyd, you may be interested to know that the state trials of two of the officers involved have been delayed until January 2023. Why? The goal, the judge stated, was to do the best they could to provide the defendants a right to a...
According to a recent report, Colorado is again experiencing a slew of police-involved shootings. You may already know that our state is considered one of the most prolific police shooting states, but the number of shootings dropped dramatically in 2020. In 2021,...
You know that there are cases of police brutality, in part because the biggest ones make it into the news cycle. There may be protests over cases where police officers take the lives of civilians. But is this actually as common as the news makes it sound? It’s...
A young millennial who has been stopped by the police is not responding in a way the officers would like. They may be non-responsive to their questions. As a police officer moves to place handcuffs on the person, they resist the officer. One officer pulls their Taser....
There’s no denying that Colorado (as well as other parts of the country) has a problem with police misconduct and brutality. That’s why Governor Jared Polis signed into being the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity bill in mid-2020. The bill, which is designed to hold...
Emotions often run high during encounters with police officers. The people stopped by police officers often feel frightened or stressed, the officers themselves may experience anxiety because they don't know how the individual will behave. Unfortunately, police...
In 2014, an ordinary citizen recorded several Denver police officers after they removed a man from an automobile. The clip shows police officers holding the man down while another officer repeatedly struck the man in the head. It also depicts an officer grabbing a...
