Crime in Boulder — 2022 Archive
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👉 Crime and Public Safety Incidents in Boulder — 2022 Archive
About this report
This report documents a wide range of crime and public-safety incidents occurring in Boulder, Colorado during 2022 using publicly available information including police and emergency radio traffic, police reports, court records, media coverage, and other public records sources.
The archive was created to preserve a structured historical record of incidents that might otherwise remain scattered across temporary news reports, difficult-to-search records systems, social media posts, or real-time emergency communications that later disappeared from public access.
Incidents documented here include violent and non-violent crimes, disturbances, fires, medical emergencies, suspicious incidents, overdose responses, public-safety investigations, and other notable calls for service occurring throughout Boulder during 2022.
The report reflects the broader purpose of the Boulder Public Safety Project: preserving searchable, historically accessible documentation of day-to-day public-safety activity within the Boulder community.
Why this archive exists
Many public-safety incidents receive little or no long-term documentation despite generating significant police, fire, EMS, or community response activity.
Historically, members of the public could independently monitor much of this activity through publicly accessible scanner traffic, public records requests, police reports, and other open-government resources. Over time, however, many of these sources have become more fragmented, delayed, restricted, or entirely unavailable.
This archive attempts to preserve part of that historical record while documenting larger patterns affecting Boulder during 2022.
The report is not intended to sensationalize crime or emergency incidents. Rather, its purpose is to organize and preserve factual public-interest documentation regarding incidents occurring within the Boulder community during the reporting period.
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, court records, media reporting, or other official documentation.
The Boulder Police Department encrypted routine dispatch traffic in October 2025, substantially reducing the public’s ability to independently document many incidents in real time going forward.
Topics covered
This archive includes incidents and trends involving:
- assaults,
- disturbances,
- suspicious incidents,
- thefts,
- weapons calls,
- overdose responses,
- fires,
- mental-health emergencies,
- police investigations,
- medical responses,
- public-space incidents,
- and other notable public-safety activity occurring in Boulder during 2022.
The report is intended both as a historical archive and as a broader documentation of public-safety patterns affecting the Boulder community during the reporting period.
Related reports
Additional Boulder Public Safety Project reports and historical archives are available through the main reports index.
Related reports include:
- Crime in Boulder — 2025
- Drug Overdoses in Boulder (Fatal and Non-Fatal) — 2023
- Boulder Fires & Arsons
- Bicycle Theft Reports
- Boulder police scanner clips archive
- Historical police blotter archives
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