Colorado lawmakers are preparing to relaunch a Gov. Jared Polis-backed criminal justice commission, despite criticism from reformers that it will compound the issues that doomed its predecessor.
The legislation takes aim at the backlog of defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, creating a diversion program for those accused of low-level crimes
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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.