The Boulder Police Department unveiled a new tool it hopes will be instrumental in aiding the healing process for violent crime witnesses and survivors. via CB_Cotton
In late August, Boulder PD renovated its new soft interview room. The room will be used for anyone who's become a victim of or witnessed violent crime.
"We've met with victims of domestic violence, sex assault, assault, robberies," she said."We also work with witnesses. We bring them into a space like this, and this is like sitting in somebody's living room. We wanted to make sure that we could separate a place where victims are interviewed and a place where suspects were interviewed."
"We were working a case this [Thursday] morning, and we were able to get an involved person in that room," said Deputy Chief Stephen Redfern."It's a fully working interview room, so it's audio and visually video recorded.For Redfern, the new space is personal. Project Beloved was founded by his cousin, Tracy Matheson, whose daughter, Molly Jane Matheson, was raped and murdered in 2017.
Matheson told Denver Boulder's new soft interview room marks the the nonprofit's 51st room completion.