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Community leaders and activists on Monday rallied around a suburban Denver police chief who was fired last week despite her community work, including efforts to rebuild trust with residents following the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.
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Vanessa Wilson's firing followed the release of a city-commissioned independent audit that found that the police department in Colorado's third-largest city had failed to eliminate a backlog of thousands of crime reports.
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In the past decade, Northern Colorado’s largest cities settled 205 allegations against police. The cost of those settlements was $50 million, roughly enough to fund a police department the size of Boulder’s for a year. That’s according to a KUNC investigation that found a recurring pattern where victims and their families dropped their allegations in exchange for a cash payout.
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The president of a police union in Aurora has been placed on paid administrative leave by the police department after he sent an email to the group's 240 members calling diversity provisions in an agreement between the city and the state “sexist and racist.”
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Today on Colorado Edition, we hear about upcoming changes to the police and fire departments in Aurora. We also learn about the first nuclear plant that will use Natrium technology, and hear what happens to oil and gas wells when their producers go bankrupt.
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In the same week that officials in Aurora agreed to independent monitoring of police, lawyers representing members of Elijah McClain’s family and the city agreed to a massive financial settlement to resolve the wrongful death lawsuit.
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The Aurora Police Department has agreed to reforms after the killing of Elijah McClain led to indictments against officers and a first-of-its-kind civil rights investigation that found a pattern of racially-biased policing and excessive force.
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Three police officers and two paramedics indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in Colorado appeared in court Monday for the first time since being charged.
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On today’s episode of Colorado Edition, we hear about the city of Aurora’s new crisis intervention program. We also learn about new efforts to help plants and wildlife thrive in western Colorado’s wetlands, and we talk to a member of a hiking group that advocates for body diversity in the outdoors.
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An Indian-American doctor was sitting in his car outside the building he owned in Aurora. He honked at a police cruiser blocking his way. An Aurora police officer responded by drawing a gun on the doctor, questioning him as if he was a criminal suspect.