CU Boulder police begin training program designed to teach officers how to intervene with peers

The University of Colorado Boulder Police Department has joined the growing number of law enforcement agencies across the U.S. that are training officers on a nationally recognized program that teaches them how to intervene with peers before a situation can escalade and potentially result in the killing of a civilian.“I think the university is continuing to look at how we can better police and how we can better provide services to the community,” said Sgt. Brian Brown with the CU Boulder Police Department. “These programs are great representations of how we are trying to respond to the calls from our community and be better police officers. We couldn’t do our jobs without our community, and our officers understand that.”Brown is completing training to be the department’s program coordinator as part of the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Project. The ABLE Project training was created in partnership by the Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety and law firm Sh...