Denver suburb vows to protect police from lawsuit costs

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - A Denver suburb is promising to pay all legal costs for police officers accused of misconduct in reaction to Colorado’s new police accountability law.

Greenwood Village passed a resolution Monday that says it will never find that a police officer acted in bad faith.

That protects officers from a provision of the law which requires officers to pay up to 5% or $25,000 of any judgement in a lawsuit if they were believed to have knowingly violated the law.

One bill supporter, Republican Sen. Bob Gardner, said he thought the resolution was an “attempted end run” around an important part of the law.