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Video: Denver district attorney justifies another killer cop

Denver's District Attorney Mitch Morrissey will not prosecute Michael Traudt, the police officer who gunned down Paul Castaway, a Native American man holding a...

Judge rules Denver D.A. should have prosecuted deputy for attacking inmate

Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey should have prosecuted a sheriff’s deputy for attacking a shackled inmate in a courtroom, a judge ruled Friday evening. Still,...

District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s failure to prosecute deputy lands him in...

Anthony Waller is no choirboy. He has a long and violent criminal history, a disdain for law enforcement and a reputation in the Denver...

Homebrew: Judge will question D.A. on failure to prosecute brutal sheriff’s...

Tough questions Tomorrow, a Denver judge will ask the city's District Attorney Mitch Morrissey what The Colorado Independent has been asking for years: Why don't...

Activists demand Denver D.A. prosecute sheriff’s deputy for attacking shackled inmate

Criminal justice watchdogs say time is running out for Denver's District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to prosecute sheriff's deputy Brady Lovingier for an unprovoked attack on...

Will Hancock’s reform strategy fix Denver’s broken sheriff’s department?

Mayor Michael Hancock is responding to a scathing report about the city’s dysfunctional sheriff's department by relying on the same people responsible for years...

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...

Exclusive video: Denver deputy belted, then kicked inmate who posed no...

  This is the video Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration doesn’t want you to see. On its own, it’s disturbing enough. It shows Denver Sheriff’s...

Denver Sheriff’s Department talks ‘matrix,’ but we need justice

The city’s position is that its hands are tied by the “matrix” – the legal framework used to mete out discipline in misconduct cases. The punishment for committing this Jim Crow-type brutality was a 30-day suspension.

Unresponsive: Denver officials refuse comment on videotaped courtroom attack

“It’s reprehensible that leadership doesn’t have enough backbone to stand up and say this is wrong,” said Rev. Reginald Holmes, pastor of Denver’s New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha Omega Ministries.