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Just three Northern Colorado jails hold over 100 murder suspects; ‘never...
GREELEY — An investigation by Complete Colorado shows that the jails in just three Northern Colorado counties combined hold over 100 inmates awaiting trial on some type of murder charge, an...
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Cooke: The legislature’s ‘year of the criminal’
“The Year of the Criminal” — that’s what I recently dubbed this year’s legislative session on the floor of the Senate as we debated a measure to allow young adults convicted of murder to participate in...
View ArticleArmstrong: What Kent Thiry is accused of shouldn’t be a crime
As far as I remember, I’ve never met Kent Thiry. I first became aware of him a few years ago when he promoted the redistricting Measures Y and Z while I opposed them. I know little about him; I see on...
View ArticleJefferson County parks & rec district drops concealed carry ban effort after...
LITTLETON — A large special district in Jefferson County has decided against becoming one of the first entities in Colorado to test the limits of a new law allowing local governments to enact gun...
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Brauchler: Phil Weiser’s Aurora PD report a cherry-picked cheap shot
Two days before his well-orchestrated launch for re-election, Attorney General Phil Weiser grabbed national headlines with his announcement that the men and women of the Aurora Police Department,...
View ArticleMcKean: Colorado’s crime wave must be a legislative priority
Public safety is and should be one of our highest priorities as a state government. Ensuring that Colorado families feel safe and that our laws are upheld has always been a cornerstone of Republican...
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Caldara: Sex offender board virtue signals past meaningful reform
The Denver Gazette did a fine job rightfully excoriating the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board for their “person-first” reclassification of sexual offenders to “adults who have committed sexual...
View ArticleArmstrong: Let the punishment fit the crime in I-70 trucker case
Anyone who regularly drives I-70 coming into Denver from the mountains is familiar with the smell of smoking truck brakes. That’s a rough stretch of road even for the best drivers with the best...
View ArticleArmstrong: Addressing Colorado’s crime wave
Deterring crime by bringing criminals to justice, keeping dangerous criminals off the streets, and stopping crimes in progress when possible, are central functions of government. By physically...
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Armstrong: Yes, there are very bad, evil people out there
Leftist Denver Post columnist Ian Silverii offers a remarkably succinct summary of the typical Progressive view on crime. He writes: “One worldview suggests that there are very bad, evil people out...
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Sharf: Catalytic converter bill hits wrong target
The working class has been hit the hardest by the surge in car and car parts thefts in Colorado. Unfortunately, a bill designed to solve that problem will only hit them harder, and further empower an...
View ArticleArmstrong: Legislature stops putting sex workers at great harm
The legislature considers so many terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bills (apologies to Judith Viorst)—and passes many of them—that it’s a breath of fresh air when the legislature actually does...
View ArticleArmstrong: Colorado’s longest serving sheriff on keeping the peace
“I never use the term law enforcement,” Bill Masters says. “We don’t enforce the law because there are just way too many of them. The best we can do is try to preserve a semblance of the peace.” He...
View ArticleArmstrong: Yes, good guys with a gun can stop crime
Notice a double standard among many gun-restriction advocates. If a proposed gun restriction might conceivably stop someone from carrying out a crime, that’s good enough, even if it has no...
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First week of Greeley double-murder trial wraps up; testimony outlines...
GREELEY — Prosecutors in the double-murder trial of Kevin Dean Eastman finished up the first week of testimony Friday in what is scheduled to be a four-week long process with a full day of witnesses...
View ArticleArmstrong: Abolish the police utopians have some explaining to do
These have been a rough couple of months for police. An investigation in Uvalde, Texas, found “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” by the 376 law enforcement officers who delayed...
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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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