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A former Loveland police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia and later seen joking about it with colleagues was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.

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.

Faced with a federal lawsuit and demands for change, the City of Loveland announced a $3 million settlement today in the arrest of Karen Garner, an elderly woman with dementia.

Following the violent arrest of an elderly woman with dementia last summer, two former officers with the Loveland Police Department are now facing criminal charges.

In Loveland, after body camera footage showing the violent arrest of a woman with dementia came out last month, one area of focus is training standards.

Three Loveland officers are no longer with the police department following the arrest of an elderly woman with dementia last summer.

A team of outside law enforcement agencies and city officials are launching separate investigations into the forceful arrest of a 73-year-old Loveland woman with dementia who left a store without paying for about $14 of items last year.

For many Black communities, George Floyd’s death brought a long-time distrust of whole police departments as well as individual officers back to the…