The timing was a coincidence, but the stakes have never been higher.

After years of community pressure for police reform, the city was primed for protest.

The Denver Police Department is rolling out a program in which unarmed first-responder teams of paramedics and mental health professionals will start handling some low-level 911 calls that police would otherwise respond to.

A Denver Sheriff’s deputy has been fired after the department determined she ignored an inmate having seizures and took no responsibility.