The organization says crime increased in "seven major categories," but those largely represented property crimes or only small spikes. By contrast, violent crime murder, rape, other sexual assault, and assault all went down.
Faced with the highest stolen-car rate in the nation, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has sought to backtrack on a year-old law downgrading penalties for vehicular theft - and promptly ran into a Republican dragnet.
This is the tale of Colorado’s unmitigated car theft epidemic and how it is addressed by two politicians: mid-term Gov. Jared Polis and election-year candidate Polis.