{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Murphy's Law","title":"They Protect Colorado. Almost Nobody Knows They Exist.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2309,"description":"In this episode of Murphy's Law, host Murphy Robinson sits down with Colonel Ronald Abramson — Harvard-educated lawyer, renewable energy entrepreneur, descendant of Napoleon, and the man who built one of Colorado's most unique and quietly powerful law enforcement agencies entirely from scratch. This is the story of the Colorado Rangers — and the vision it took to bring them back.\nMost people have never heard of the Colorado Rangers. But they should. Born in 1861 as Colorado's original statewide law enforcement agency, defunded after a dramatic miners' strike shootout in the 1920s, resurrected during World War II as an all-volunteer auxiliary, and completely reimagined as a full government reserve police agency in 2018 — the Rangers are now one of the top 10 largest law enforcement agencies in Colorado. And they don't get paid a single dollar.\nColonel Abramson didn't set out to build a government. He wanted to help kids cross the street after school. But when he walked into the Colorado Mounted Rangers as a lawyer in 2010 and saw the liability, the gaps, and the potential — he spent the next eight years lobbying the legislature, rewriting the rules, and building something that had never existed before. Today the Colorado Rangers serve nearly three dozen agencies across the state — from one-person marshal offices to the Denver Police Department — providing expert law enforcement planning, surge capacity, and community presence that most departments simply couldn't afford on their own.\nMurphy and Colonel Abramson unpack what it takes to build trust in a government nobody asked for, why accountability makes better officers not fewer, and why the Colorado Rangers might just be the model for the future of American policing.\nKey Themes & Takeaways\nBuilding a Government From Zero In 2018 Colonel Abramson stood up a brand new government agency with $800,000 from the legislature and a vision nobody else could see. Eight years and 250 trained police officers later the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i5VidaAPwui-mkO5QFXggyZtb0zIlg4YR2_FNHsGhxQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZWZm/YzczODJhMjE0Mjhl/ZWUzYTE0YTI3MGUz/OGVjZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}