Crime in Colorado 2007, the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting in 2015, and the National Western Complex shootout in Denver in 2016. Crime in Colorado This article describes crime in the U.S. state of Colorado. In 2011, there were 151,125 crimes reported in Colorado. In 2008, there were 158,236 crimes reported in Colorado, including 156 murders, 141,107 property crimes, and 2,094 rapes. Capital punishment is applied in this state. Two of the country's largest mass shootings have occurred in Colorado: The Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and the Aurora movie theater massacre in 2012. Both of these shootings resulted in national and
Columbine High School massacre friend Dylan Klebold and others. The mascot of Columbine High School (CHS) is the Rebels, and he called these "Rebel Missions". Harris and Klebold adopted the nicknames "Reb" and "Vodka" respectively. Beginning in early 1997, the blog postings began to show the first signs of Harris's ever-growing anger against society. By the end of the year, the site contained instructions on how to make explosives. Harris wrote "the first true pipe bombs created entirely from scratch by the rebels (REB and VoDkA)...Now our only problem is to find the place that will be 'ground zero.'" Harris's site attracted few visitors,