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In Colorado, law enforcement routinely take people to the hospital for court-ordered mental health evaluations. But now, in Boulder County, sheriff’s deputies have stopped putting their hands on people to force them to go.

CSU and Fort Collins police departments are investigating an aggravated assault with a knife and a separate incident involving a deceased person found at Alpine Hall.

A bill that would reform transparency and accountability around police misconduct, especially between officers, was introduced this week with just days left in the legislative session.

A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict. The verdict for Ruby Johnson announced Monday came in a lawsuit brought under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights.

Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a "psychotic breakdown" instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family. The lawsuit over the 2022 death of Kevin Dizmang in Colorado Springs was filed against the team's paramedic and a police officer.

A Black woman and a group of young girls who were wrongfully forced out of their car, held at gunpoint and handcuffed by police in suburban Denver in 2020 have reached a $1.9 million legal settlement. A lawyer for Brittney Gilliam announced the deal with the city of Aurora.

A police chief in southwestern Colorado has been placed on paid administrative leave after charges were filed against three men in the case of a 17-year-old girl who reported being raped by more than one person during a party at the chief's house.

A former Colorado police officer has pleaded guilty to one count of reckless endangerment for parking his patrol car on railroad tracks before a handcuffed woman was put inside and seriously injured when it was hit by a freight train.

Over the last three years, five people filed six total lawsuits against a couple former Northern Colorado police officers. The lawsuits allege the plaintiffs were wrongfully arrested for driving under the influence.

One of two Colorado law enforcement officers accused of needlessly escalating a standoff that led to the death of a 22-year-old man suffering a mental health crisis has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to two years of probation. Kyle Gould pleaded guilty Thursday to failing to intervene to stop the the unlawful use of force against Christian Glass. Glass was fatally shot last year by a deputy under Gould's command after Glass called for help when his SUV got stuck. Gould wasn't at the scene but watched what was happening using live body camera footage. Prosecutors alleged Gould gave Buen permission to remove Glass from his vehicle even though he wasn't suspected of having committed any crimes.