On Caplis and Silverman‘s KHOW talk radio show on Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry attacked Gov. Bill Ritter for releasing “hardened criminals” and sex offenders earlier than parole boards advised, picking up a well-worn GOP tack on Democrats as “soft on crime.”
A recent press release from Denver Police Department Director of Data Analysis Chris Wyckoff advises city residents to take their goodies out of their cars.
Denver has seen its crime rate jump 8.1 percent so far this year and motor…
On day 3 of the DNC, it’s official: we’ve seen it all on the protest front. An organization calling itself Stop Bird Porn marched on Denver’s 16th Street Mall Wednesday, warning people that “bird watchers are voyeurs who seek vicarious sexual gratification in the woods” by observing “God’s defenseless creatures mating.”
Crime is down in Denver 11.4% for the year to date compared to the same period last year, on top of a 10% decline in crime from 2005 to 2006.
The cause may have more to do…
Here is a story about Kathy Roever, a remarkable woman who is currently living, nearly on the streets, of Colorado Springs.
On June 23, 1997, life sucker-punched Kathy Roever.
That was the day her 24-year-old daughter, Deidre, was
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Violence against GLBT individuals is down both nationally and locally, according to groups that study the issue. However, it’s not all good news. Reports in Colorado also show that the severity of violent incidents has gone up, and it may…
As a follow up to the Confidential’s July 28th story Arrests Rising In Denver, new information from the Denver Police Department (DPD) revels the number of police complaints in the Westwood neighborhood since September 2005.
In February, Westwood was…
The Denver Police Department has released new crime statistics (Excel) detailing arrest rates citywide and in the Westwood neighborhood specifically, where a pilot program in new policing has taken place.
According to the figures, arrests in Westwood are…
If everything goes as planned, Denver will start a new policing strategy in the next month, aimed at reducing crime in the city’s famed Capitol Hill neighborhood.
COMPANION STORY: Arrests Rising in Denver.
No one disputes that unmarried seventeen year teen mother Cheyenne Corbett is an abysmally bad mother. According to prosecutors, on Sunday morning, after at least four months of fraudulently denying that she was pregnant, she gave birth in a…
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