A short answer to the above-posed headline query in today's blog post is this: You often don't know, at least not immediately. And that can obviously be troubling, as well as tremendously consequential, for any Colorado resident who is arrested and sought to be...
Month: January 2018
No doubt about it: Colorado law enforcers are serious about DUI.
It's one thing to talk a tough game, and another thing to follow through on the rhetoric.Regarding the subject of drunk driving, Colorado law enforcers unquestionably do both.State motorists are regularly reminded by officials and criminal authorities of the outsized...
Colorado’s diversion programs scoring high marks, Part 2
One Denver police lieutenant says that select individuals who accompany him when he responds to 911 calls "are worth their weight in gold." He may be right, even in the most literal sense. The people riding shotgun with him and other police officers when they...
The ‘heat’ was certainly on for Colorado drivers in 2017
As we have written about many times before, Colorado law enforcement agencies will often coordinate and implement multiple DUI crackdowns throughout the year as part of the state’s “The Heat is On” DUI campaign. These DUI enforcement periods typically occur during...
Timely, proactive and proven: Colorado’s diversion programs
We all know the overriding strategy long employed in the so-called War on Crime against criminal suspects. Namely, what that has meant in Colorado and nationally is a slammed door in a state or federal penitentiary for a convicted offender. Unquestionably, a go-to and...
Many new laws are coming to Colorado in 2018
In many states, with every New Year comes new laws, and Colorado is no exception. While Colorado lawmakers have enacted several laws that go into effect this year, here are four in particular that may impact Coloradans: Home marijuana growers: While the previous law...