A New Report Casts Doubt on Both Fears and Hopes About the Consequences of Abolishing Qualified Immunity
A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs.
A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs.
The mayor is traveling to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter.
City officials repeatedly gave activists false information about the requirements for getting their initiative on the ballot.
According to the appeals court, the relevant question is what legislators were trying to accomplish.
Colorado Springs Police Sergeant Keith Wrede insists he was just "going crazy" to Metallica and doesn't want protesters to die.
The Bedrooms Are For People campaign would repeal the city's existing limits on unrelated people living in the same house.
The switch threatens an initiative to repeal Boulder's restrictions on unrelated people living together.
Police used a controversial neck restraint during McClain's arrest.
The legislation rolls back regulations that have been shielding bad police from accountability.
There’s a lot of work to be done to prevent future George Floyds. Here are some baby steps.
Clarifying the prevalence and lethality of the virus will require wide testing that goes beyond a single rural county.
The number of Americans who have been infected by the virus, which seems to be much higher than the official tally suggests, is crucial to understanding how deadly it is.
A strain of CBD oil used to treat children with a rare epileptic disorder is named after her.
The reactions to the governor's actions were mixed.
Concern for the families appeared on both sides of the debate.
District Attorney George Brauchler: "Bottom line is if one of us had been in that car and not officer Nate Meier, you ask me if I think it would have been treated differently, I do."
The petitioner, who cited the officer's 2017 shooting of her son, had no standing under Colorado's "red flag" law.
Such a high approval rate reflects the threat these laws pose to due process and the Second Amendment.
Marijuana merchants, restaurants, and "mobile premises" can let customers partake if they get state and local approval.
Body camera videos show a woman being tased into compliance after being placed on suicide watch.
Are there any limits to what police can do in pursuit of a suspect? The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals apparently doesn't think so.
A comparison with other states finds "no statistically significant long-term effects" on violent or property crime rates.
A spokesman for Gov. Jared Polis objects to a news story not because it’s wrong, but because of who wrote it.
The restaurant industry would likely suffer under the legislation.
Posting “Finna be lit” on Snapchat shouldn’t have gotten Nathan Myers thrown out of school.
Colorado's former governor came around on the issue when he realized that legalization was not the disaster he had anticipated.
That result "may strike some as unfair," the court says, but it's what state law required at the time.
After the state ends a lawsuit over a transgender celebration cake, the customer files her own civil claim.
Polis vetoed licensing requirements for HOA managers, sports agents, and genetic counselors. That's not sitting well with some members of his own party.
Marijuana legalization changes the constitutional status of canine olfactory inspections.
The surprise results will embolden efforts by activists in other states to legalize psilocybin for medical and religious use.
A new frontier in rolling back drug prohibition
The Colorado Democrat opposes Medicare for All and universal free college.
Initiative 300 takes aim at the city's incredibly broad anti-camping ordinance
The process for obtaining "extreme risk protection orders" that take away people's Second Amendment rights is rigged against gun owners from the outset.
"What a betrayal of conservative principles this is," Sen. Michael Bennet says.
Both sides agree to stand down. First Amendment precedents were on the baker's side.
Bills in Colorado and Florida would mandate some new restrictions on plastic straws, but forbid local governments from banning the suckers outright.
Body cam footage shows the officer getting chewed out by his supervisor shortly afterward.
Is he rejecting a customer or rejecting a message? The difference matters.