Author: Kaitlin Durbin

COLORADO SPRINGS – A civilian wounded in the gunbattle that killed an El Paso County sheriff’s deputy earlier this year is planning to sue the city of Colorado Springs and the county for at least $1 million. An attorney for Thomas Villanueva filed a notice of claim in March, saying the actions of Colorado Springs…

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado State Patrol’s delayed response to dozens of complaints about the same dangerous driver across two days last November stands in stark contrast to the premise behind its *CSP or *277 program, meant to stop DUI and aggressive drivers “as a matter of eminent public safety concern.” The phone line, started in…

The apartment complex where El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Micah Flick was killed during an attempted auto-theft arrest is at the heart of a city neighborhood most afflicted by motor vehicle thefts in 2016, a Gazette analysis of the latest full year for which census data was available. Murray Hill Apartments, at Murray Boulevard and…

“We’ve got an officer down, at least one officer down.” Those harrowing words broke through the jabber of police scanner traffic just before 4 p.m. Monday, foreshadowing the tragic outcome and transforming an otherwise mundane Feb. 5, 2018, into the death date forever written on the tombstone of El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Micah Flick.…

Two of 12 female police officers who sued the city over a physical aptitude test they said discriminated against women and harmed their careers clarified Thursday they’re not against fitness requirements for officers as long as they’re “fair and legitimate.” “We never argued that being physical wasn’t a part of being a law enforcement officer,…

Before the Colorado Springs Police Department started its Community Response Team to better assist residents dealing with mental health issues, one woman was calling 911 about 300 times a year. Other similar “super-users” could tie up officers’ time for hours, though the person wasn’t committing a crime and didn’t pose a risk to the community.…