Colorado State Patrol

I guess it's hypocrisy.

When I've gone down to the state house, to the state capitol to testify, guess what? I have to go through a metal detector, and guess what? The Colorado State Patrol is there with firearms, protecting those that are making laws that say we can't have firearms.

I think that is just disgusting.

Agreed rules for me, but not for me.

[gavel banging] The Denver Police Department says that there is no mechanism in state law to cite a car that has no driver.

In fact, the Colorado State Patrol says the same thing.

[clears throat] Now, they say this, [clears throat] "A moving violation goes to the driver." Got it? Then why didn't the driver of my wife's car in Pueblo get a ticket? The state patrol says the moving violations go to the drivers.

No driver, no ticket.

Story four.

After six years with the Colorado State Patrol, I believed I had developed reliable instincts for recognizing when something was wrong.

My thirtieth birthday was still two months away on that March morning in twenty seventeen, and I had stopped enough vehicles along Interstate seventy to distinguish between someone who had simply forgotten to renew their registration and someone deliberately avoiding the DMV for a more serious reason.

The silver Dodge Caravan that passed my radar position near the Limon exit displayed registration stickers that had expired the previous July.

Right.

The, the, uh, family foundation, uh, of the, uh, Colorado State Patrol is another big beneficiary, right? So if, uh, uh, one of the officers is hurt or killed in the line of duty, uh, immediately the Grand comes and writes a big check just to cover immediate expenses.

It's just a, it's a wonderful group.

Um- Yeah, I mean, there just aren't too many things that are just, just good, right, from every angle.

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in, on The Grand, we, you know, um, one of our big benefactors is the, uh, uh, I'm gonna screw up the na- the executive, it's a family foundation for, for the Colorado State Patrol.

So each year the, the chief of the, of the Colorado State Patrol, uh, comes, gives a speech.

In fact, Snowmass Village's Oktoberfest was over the weekend.

And be aware that the Colorado State Patrol is increasing DUI enforcement for the next month.

Drivers may see saturation patrols, sobriety checkpoints, and additional law enforcement officers on duty.

Nearly 1,500 people were arrested during last year's fall DUI enforcement period.

That creates problems when cars with no drivers break the rules.

Denver Police and Colorado State Patrol both told us they can't just go and ticket a robot.

And I mean, I would say shame, shame, shame, shame, Colorado.

I mean, you had plenty of time to get your act together.