City of Colorado Springs

City auditor finds Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade's security detail and a city vehicle were used for personal errands - dry-cleaning runs and school pickups - at least five times in 2025, and his wife drove a city vehicle roughly 150 miles, exposing that no policy restricting personal use existed

City of Colorado Springs pays $3.2 million - the largest police-misconduct settlement in its history - over the 2018 death of Jeffrey Melvin, who died days after officers tased him up to eight times and pepper-sprayed him, while denying any admission that officer training was inadequate

Colorado Springs City Council voted unanimously on April 29, 2026 to dissolve the police oversight commission created after the 2019 police killing of De'Von Bailey, after the commission itself recommended abolishing itself for lacking any real access to use-of-force investigations, records, or officers