Officers investigate the scene of a police shooting at 26th Avenue and Meade Street on Dec. 2, 2015, in Denver, Colo. (Brent Lewis, Denver Post file)
Re: Colorado grants waivers to police applicants with criminal backgrounds, Jan. 23 news story.
Your article proves the depth of the hypocrisy and the height of the absurdity of companies that use background checks to protect their workforce and not hire people with a criminal conviction. Colorado allows people with criminal backgrounds including felonies to become police officers at the same that companies use criminal background checks to keep people from becoming cooks, clerks and secretaries.
Police officers in Colorado include those convicted of assault, drug crimes, and domestic violence. These same convictions would keep other people from getting a job at the local grocery store. What sense does it make to run background checks on people with decades-old convictions who are just trying to get an entry-level job while allowing other people with felony convictions to have guns and badges? Stop the hypocrisy.
Lisa Forbes, Thornton
This letter was published in the Jan. 28 edition.
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