CREATION OF A STATE INVESTIGATION UNIT TO INVESTIGATE POLICE USE OF FORCE INCIDENTSThis bill creates a new investigation unit, under the direction of the Attorney

CHANGES TO DEADLY FORCE LAW This bill would change and remove circumstances when peace officers are legally authorized to use deadly force. Currently, in addition

In my years as a police officer, I went through many different types of training for shoot/don’t shoot scenarios. At the beginning of my career,

Law enforcement agencies investigate crimes or allegations of crimes. While they investigate, they create reports. These reports remain in the possession of the law enforcement

Internal affairs investigations are now public records in Colorado. After a bill signed into law on April 12, 2019, certain Internal Affairs (IA) investigations fall

In 1999, four officers from the New York Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit confronted a man in the alcove of an apartment building late one

Police officers face adversity in every direction. Sometimes that adversity comes from within their own agency. After an officer has been in an officer-involved-shooting, they

On May 22, 2019, in a remarkably unpublicized manner, Governor Polis signed Senate Bill 19-166, paving the way for peace officers with findings of untruthfulness