Author: George Brauchler
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GUEST COLUMN: Will Smith faces only Hollywood justice
The sucker slap heard ’round the world at last Sunday’s Academy Awards reaffirmed for those watching that America continues to have a two-tiered criminal justice system based on race and privilege. Hollywood Megastar and kajillionaire Will Smith committed the California criminal act of battery in front of 16.6 million international viewers. He faces no investigation,…
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PERSPECTIVE: Flawed policies cause a crippling crime wave
Pick up any paper or tune in to the evening news on any given day — it is no surprise — Colorado is in the middle of a crime wave. Colorado’s crime numbers rival those of the infamous 1993 “Summer of violence.” In 1993, Denver experienced 74 homicides —so many that Gov. Roy Romer called…