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A third of Colorado’s sheriffs keep posses as reserve officers’ ranks decline

More than a third of Colorado sheriffs use volunteer posses to support law enforcement amid a 32% decline in certified reserve officers over the past decade, officials said.

Summary by Denver Post
When notorious serial killer Ted Bundy leaped from a second-story window in Aspen’s courthouse and escaped into the Colorado high country in 1975, the Pitkin County sheriff immediately called up his posse to aid in the manhunt. In this 1977 photo, serial killer Ted Bundy, center, is escorted out of court at the Pitkin County courthouse in Aspen. He was accused of killing a woman in Snowmass Village in January 1975. (Ross Dolan/Glenwood Springs P…

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Denver Post broke the news in Denver, United States on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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