Colorado Says They Have No Money To Investigate Over 2,000 Complaints Against Police

The state of Colorado has received more than 2,000 complaints against their police officers for all sorts of things, but the Attorney General of the state says that there's no money in the budget left to investigate. That claim seems fairly hard to believe, but even if it is true, this still means that abusive police officers are on the job every day and the public are the victims of the corruption and brutality. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to a recent report by Axios, the state of Colorado doesn't have enough money in the budget to investigate more than 2000 statewide complaints about police officer misconduct. Now the Colorado attorney general, uh, Phil wiser actually recently asked Congress, can you please give us, I think it was 150, some odd thousand dollars, very small request, by the way, from a state budget, give us $156,000 is what it is so that we can, you know, bring in maybe some more people. So, and start investigating all of these claims of police officer misconduct, which of course includes police officers that have killed people while on the job. Okay. We got cops that killed people. I can't even look into it because I don't have the resources or the manpower to do this. And do you know what the democratic controlled state house did? They cut it out of the budget?

They cut it out of a recently passed budget. I think the budget was just passed a couple days ago. Actually last week they cut it out. They said, Hey, we know you need this money allegedly, but you need to be doing more with the resources that you have. They said, so what have they done with the resources that they do have? Well, here it is from Axios. The office has conducted just three civil rights investigations into law enforcement since its debut in 2020, the most notable being the inquiry related to the death of Elijah McClain that found to pattern of racially biased, policing, and excessive use of force within the Aurora police department, the office spent the equivalent of 6,200 man hours in staff time, or roughly three full-time positions on the Aurora investigation alone, 6,200 hours on one investigation.

There's more than 2000 in the state that need to be conducted. And even the Democrats that control that statehouse said, eh, you need to use, use your resources more wisely. You know, don't maybe don't spend all your, your money all in one, go, you'll spread it out and we're not gonna help you. We're gonna keep potentially murderous police officers on the streets because you can't investigate whether or not they need to be removed because we're gonna teach you financial responsibility. This is insane. People are dying. People are being abused. Some of the worst of the worst that the police departments have to offer are out there walking the beat today in Colorado with many complaints filed against them and nobody to investigate. The real problem is that this is of course public knowledge. The police officers know that the state doesn't have the resources to investigate them. If they get complaints against them.

Do you know what kind of a green light that is for these police officers? The corrupted ones? I should say, if you know that no matter what you do, there's gonna be nobody who's even able to look over your shoulder because there's no money for them to do that. Do you know what I mean? I, I can't even fathom. I can't even fathom to think what some of these officers may be emboldened to do because they know that right now. Thanks to the budget cuts. There is no accountability for police officers in the state of Colorado.