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Greene: Mitch Morrissey leaves his fingerprint

It was a year ago this week, and noon hour at the Brown Palace. Members of Denver’s City Club lunched on pork loins with...

Denver’s independent safety monitor insulated from political whims

Denver’s Referred Question 2B has passed. The city’s independent monitoring office for its police and sheriff's departments will be preserved in the city charter....

Homebrew: State Board of Ed looks to fill vacancy after tumultuous...

Strange Ed Fellows The Colorado State Board of Education needs to fill a vacancy created by Republican Marcia Neal's June departure amid an exodus of top...

Confederate and American flags burned at Denver anti-racist rally

“If he was black, he’d be dead. You better believe it,” Denver civil rights activist Virgil Robinson said about Dylann Roof — the young...

Community wants more say in Denver Sheriff’s Department reform

Activists calling for the complete overhaul of the Denver Sheriff's Department are not impressed by Mayor Michael Hancock's decision not to include any community members...

Will Denver’s District Attorney ever throw the book at killer cops?

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...

Denver’s excessive force payouts twice as much as Baltimore’s

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...

Victims of Denver police violence eye search for new safety manager

Not long after Landau was asked to turn over his license and registration, he found his arms held by two backup officers while Nixon struck him in the face hard enough to topple the group onto the sidewalk.