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The Aurora Police Department is the latest Colorado law enforcement agency to sign on to the 30x30 Initiative. The goal is to increase recruitment of women on police forces to 30% by 2030. Currently, about 10% of Aurora PD's staff are women.

A group of police officers and paramedics have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the role they are accused of playing in the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative called ketamine.

Sentinel Colorado reports 32-year-old Douglas Harroun was charged with third-degree assault against an at-risk adult following Wednesday's encounter. He's accused of punching the woman in the face and head several times during an argument.

Police say a man accused of causing a disturbance at a work release program for jail inmates with mental health and substance abuse issues died after being shot by police on Sunday. The police chief in Aurora said the 35-year-old inmate was reported to be armed with a large knife.

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.

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.

In the past decade, Northern Colorado鈥檚 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鈥檚 for a year. That鈥檚 according to a KUNC investigation that found a recurring pattern where victims and their families dropped their allegations in exchange for a cash payout.

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 鈥渟exist and racist.鈥�

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.

In the same week that officials in Aurora agreed to independent monitoring of police, lawyers representing members of Elijah McClain鈥檚 family and the city agreed to a massive financial settlement to resolve the wrongful death lawsuit.