Denver Police Department
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Sep 26, 2026
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've caught wind that there's a bu- a contract with Axon for drones that is again under the budget requirement for city council's approval.
Spencer SoicherCORRESPONDENT
Like a lot of departments, Denver Police use drones as first responders, flying to scope out calls before officers can arrive on the ground.
Spencer SoicherCORRESPONDENT
But right now in the city's contract system, there's a draft of a contract with Axon for more of those drones: $496,012.
Ron ThomasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are in discussions with a vendor to see what the expense would be for, um, for drone technology for various periods of time.
Anthony SimonovHOST
It's just like we sort of have to usher it out.
Anthony SimonovHOST
And so the fascinating thing is both the Denver Police Department and Colorado State Patrol confirmed there is currently no legal mechanism to issue a citation to a driverless vehicle.
Anthony SimonovHOST
If there's no driver currently, there is not a mechanism within state law for issuing a citation, they've said, uh, which is crazy.
Anthony SimonovHOST
Which makes me think, I'm, uh, I'm just gonna little tease, listeners, little tease.
Mike Yam and Trevor SykemaADVERTISER
$3.1 million more in traffic citation revenue next year.
Michael BrownHOST
In fact, the budget's own highlight section, you can read it yourself, says that the money is largely attributable to increased Denver Police Department traffic enforcement.
Michael BrownHOST
And then the police department, well, you know, they're cops, so they just kind of say things without thinking about it.
Michael BrownHOST
They got a little more candid.
Mark SalingerCORRESPONDENT
That creates problems when cars with no drivers break the rules.
Mark SalingerCORRESPONDENT
Denver Police and Colorado State Patrol both told us they can't just go and ticket a robot.
Missy CummingsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I mean, I would say shame, shame, shame, shame, Colorado.
Missy CummingsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, you had plenty of time to get your act together.
Kyle ClarkHOST
What are the
Mark SalingerCORRESPONDENT
individual officers do? Because they're faced with the situation.
Mark SalingerCORRESPONDENT
What do they do in the moment? So this is a training bulletin from Denver police here, a little bit redacted, but in it it says if a Waymo vehicle has a human driver, that driver can get a citation.
Mark SalingerCORRESPONDENT
OK, but if there's no human driver and it's just the robot that's driving.
Justin DodgeHOST
And then me growing up in Minneapolis, got my degree, and then I didn't want to work in Minneapolis and the department and the department I really, really wanted to work for because I saw it on cops.
Justin DodgeHOST
several times was Denver PD.
Justin DodgeHOST
I applied for a bunch of different places and there's kind of a reason why Denver streamlined it.
Justin DodgeHOST
But I love hearing that Aurora was the one you really wanted and that's the one you got because Denver is the one I really wanted and that's the one I got.
Anna GarciaHOST
Basically, he was suggesting that maybe someone was responding for her, that it wasn't Kelsey, but we have no proof of that.
Anna GarciaHOST
Kelsey's parents say that they and Kelsey's brother were interrogated by the Denver Police Department when this missing person's case was filed.
Anna GarciaHOST
And then afterwards, when her car was found abandoned, which we're going to get to, at that point, when a car is found abandoned and it was found in Pueblo, police start thinking foul play.
Anna GarciaHOST
This is no longer just like, oh, you know, she took off for a few days and wanted to disconnect.
Darren MarlarHOST
For one thing, she was an obedient child, did well in school and was supposedly happy at home.
Darren MarlarHOST
For another, her father was a well-known detective in the Denver Police Department and had a lot of enemies.
Darren MarlarHOST
Leona, it was initially believed, had been kidnapped.
Darren MarlarHOST
the real story was a lot worse.
Sally Vander VeerGUEST
Um, and, and again, it's anecdotal.
Sally Vander VeerGUEST
We, uh, serve as a best practices training ground for the Denver Police Department.
Sally Vander VeerGUEST
They come through my facility, uh, tours of about 20 police officers-
Art BellHOST
[laughs]
Mama JulesHOST
It was easy.
Mama JulesHOST
She said Denver PD sent CBI the kits they did not expect to prosecute after the 2013 law that required almost every kit to be tested.
Mama JulesHOST
Okay, follow me here.
Mama JulesHOST
Colorado made a law in 2013 saying, hey, you can't just slap a sexual assault kit on the shelf and forget it.
TarellaHOST
He said, quote, that's a judgment call.
TarellaHOST
could we have called Denver Police Department? Sure.
TarellaHOST
And Jessica's attorney kind of made the same point, just in a more snarky way.
TarellaHOST
Mm-hmm.
TarellaHOST
Quote, I'm assuming that Castle Rock Police Department have the phone number for the Denver Police Department.
TarellaHOST
A simple telephone call to the security officials at Ellich Gardens, which is the amusement park, to the Denver Police Department, this tragedy could have been avoided because the girls were alive at the amusement park.
TarellaHOST
He killed them after that.
NikitaHOST
Mm-hmm.
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