Crime and Public Safety Incidents in Boulder — 2019 Archive

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About this report

This archive preserves selected crime and public-safety incidents occurring in Boulder, Colorado during 2019 using publicly available information including police and emergency radio traffic, police reports, public records, media coverage, and other contemporaneous documentation collected during the reporting period.

The report was originally assembled as part of an effort to preserve a searchable historical record of day-to-day public-safety activity in Boulder that often received little or no lasting public documentation despite generating significant police, fire, EMS, or community response.

Incidents documented here include violent and non-violent crimes, disturbances, suspicious incidents, public-space activity, emergency medical responses, mental-health crises, fires, thefts, and other notable calls for service occurring throughout Boulder during 2019.

The archive reflects an earlier stage of the broader Boulder Public Safety Project and preserves material collected several years before the encryption of routine Boulder Police dispatch communications in October 2025.

Historical context

During 2019, much of Boulder’s day-to-day emergency-response activity remained publicly accessible through police and emergency radio traffic, allowing members of the public, journalists, and independent observers to monitor incidents as they unfolded in real time.

At the time, many incidents documented through scanner traffic never appeared in meaningful detail within official press releases or long-term public archives. As a result, substantial amounts of public-safety information were historically fragmented across temporary media reports, social media discussions, dispatch traffic, and difficult-to-search public-records systems.

This archive attempts to preserve part of that historical record while documenting broader public-safety patterns affecting Boulder during 2019.

Important notes regarding sources and methodology

Some incidents included in this archive were initially identified through real-time police, fire, and EMS scanner traffic that was publicly accessible at the time.

Scanner traffic reflects information as initially reported to dispatchers and responding personnel during unfolding emergency situations and may later prove incomplete or inaccurate.

Descriptions included here generally reflect reported incidents, calls for service, or emergency responses rather than adjudicated findings regarding criminal responsibility or final investigative conclusions.

Whenever possible, incidents were supplemented or cross-referenced using publicly available police reports, media reporting, court records, photographs, or other official documentation.

The Boulder Police Department encrypted routine dispatch traffic in October 2025, substantially reducing the public’s ability to independently monitor or document many incidents in real time going forward.

Topics covered

This archive includes incidents and trends involving:

assaults,
disturbances,
suspicious activity,
thefts,
public-space incidents,
overdose responses,
fires,
police investigations,
emergency medical responses,
mental-health crises,
and other notable public-safety activity occurring in Boulder during 2019.

The report is intended both as a historical archive and as part of a broader long-term effort to preserve public-interest documentation regarding crime and emergency-response activity in Boulder over time.

Related reports

Related Boulder Public Safety Project archives include:

Crime in Boulder — 2022 Archive
Crime in Boulder — 2025
Boulder Fires & Arsons
Drug Overdoses in Boulder (Fatal and Non-Fatal) — 2023
Boulder police scanner clips archive
Public safety documentation submitted to Boulder City Council (2020)