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Greene: How Denver’s outgoing safety manager earned the nickname “STeflon” O’Malley
Stephanie O’Malley made headlines Monday when her boss, Mayor Michael Hancock, announced she’ll no longer be running Denver’s safety department and that he’s reassigning...
Family speaks on seventh anniversary of Marvin Booker’s death
Monday, July 10, marked seven years and one day since Marvin Booker died at the hands of five Denver sheriff's deputies. But on that...
EVENT: What about the Taser? A conversation about the Marvin Booker...
Marvin Booker died seven years ago this month at the hands of officers at the Denver jail. But serious questions linger about the authenticity...
GREENE: Slain preacher’s family alleges that Denver officers rigged Taser evidence
The family of the homeless street preacher killed in Denver's jail in 2010 wants the new district attorney to investigate whether the officers responsible...
Denver’s safety oversight board blasts Hancock administration’s decision in jail killing...
The board that reviews disciplinary decisions in Denver's Safety Department says it's "extremely troubled" by Mayor Michael Hancock's administration's handling of the officers involved...
Denver’s review of jailhouse killing has taken 13 months, and counting
It has been nearly 13 months since the Denver Sheriff's Department launched its internal investigation into the death of Michael Marshall, a mentally ill homeless man...
Violence is surging in Denver’s jails
Assaults among inmates in Denver’s jails have increased 784 percent since 2011 and spiked dramatically in the past two years, according to data obtained...
Denver Sheriff’s Department is flailing, despite reform efforts
Fifteen months after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock appointed Sheriff Patrick Firman as a “change agent” to reform the city’s jails, deputies see conditions as...
Denver police say racial profiling isn’t happening. Where’s the data?
Denver’s top Black public safety officials are on the wrong side of history.
When it comes to racial profiling, city safety head Stephanie O’Malley and...
Transparency? Not so much in Hancock’s appointment of new sheriff.
Michael Hancock had hoped that finding a new sheriff would cure what ails Denver’s violence-plagued, scandal-ridden and otherwise dysfunctional sheriff’s department.
But, for the second...