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Armstrong: Who should be in charge of investigating the police?
“Dial 911 and die” now has two distinct meanings. Originally, it meant that, if someone seeks to break in to your home to do you harm, the police probably won’t get there in time to help you. For a few...
View ArticleDierenbach: Polis policies behind Colorado crime wave
You won’t catch Colorado Governor Jared Polis shouting “Defund the Police,” but his actions perfectly align with the movement. Polis is soft on crime, lowering penalties for fentanyl and car theft for...
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Rosen: These days crime actually does seem to pay
A recent online You Tube video shows a flash-mob sacking a 7-Eleven store in Compton just south of downtown L.A. The video was recorded on security cameras inside and outside the store. Outside,...
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Eaton man on trial for driving through crowd passes out during closing...
GREELEY — The man accused of driving his vehicle through a crowded rally was taken by ambulance from the Weld County Courthouse on Wednesday morning just as his three-day trial was wrapping up — two...
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Armstrong: Don’t let ‘abolitionists’ thwart meaningful justice reform
Who guards the guardians? Who watches the watchers? Who polices the police? These are classic problems of power. We need to assign people to help keep us safe from those who would do us harm, and we...
View ArticleMadsen: Rethinking how we pick judges in Colorado
Our system for the selection and retention of state court judges in Colorado was created in 1966 by an initiated constitutional amendment known as the “Missouri Plan.” Colorado has gone through...
View ArticleProposed ballot measure mandates violent offenders serve most of prison time...
DENVER —A man known for putting taxpayer protection initiatives on the Colorado ballot has shifted to criminal justice matters, saying the state legislature won’t do anything to get the criminals off...
View ArticleArmstrong: Colorado ‘abolitionists’ send incoherent message on justice
Two Colorado legislators that I know of, Elisabeth Epps and Tim Hernández, declare themselves to be “abolitionists.” Traditionally, that term referred to the abolition of slavery. So what do these...
View ArticleArmstrong: Colorado has room for improvement on police accountability
Policing is an inherently noble profession. Your career, if you are a good cop, is to help keep people safe from violence—the most central function of proper government. But when “we”—society at large,...
View ArticleArmstrong: Asset forfeiture bill reins in government theft
A central function of government is to protect us from getting our stuff stolen. Far too often, government agents instead engage in legalized theft. By some estimates for some years, government seizes...
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