Phoenix Law Enforcement Association

Superior Court Judge Halts Phoenix From Paying Cops to Conduct Union Work, Decision Applies Only to Contract Expiring June 30

Maricopa County Judge Katherine Cooper granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday halting contract provisions that allows Phoenix police union officials to conduct union work while they're on the clock. "The city received the judge's order this morning and currently is reviewing it," spokeswoma ... More >>

SB 1070 Redux: Phoenix Police Department Criticized for Post-1070 Operations Order

The Phoenix human rights group Puente is planning a press conference and rally for Friday March 9, to protest the Phoenix Police Department's current operations order on immigration enforcement, which allows crime victims and witnesses to be questioned about their immigration status.The operations o ... More >>

Russell Pearce Preaches Hate on Ban Amnesty Now Radio Show

The high-priest of Hispanic-hatin', now flapping his lips on the AM dial... Xenophobia, self-adulation and delusion are just some of the repulsive dishes offered at ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce's radio cafeteria of hate, which airs Tuesdays and Mondays at 7 p.m. on Phoenix's KFNX 1100 AM ... More >>

Can Kyrsten Sinema Win in Congressional District 9?

Russell Pearce Anti-Recall Group Scores $5K in Union Dough

Who says this guy doesn't love unions?I'm on my way to a function I must attend tonight, but I just saw that Matt Tolman's anti-recall committee Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall has filed its financials with the Arizona Secretary of State's Office.Total receipts: $72,610, with one of the larges ... More >>

Mark Spencer Coasting at PLEA Till He Retires in February

Spencer, on easy street at PLEA till retirement...If you're wondering why you haven't seen media hog Mark Spencer flapping his lips on TV in a while, it's because Spencer is no longer president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the union that represents rank and file Phoenix cops.His ... More >>

Phil Roberts Exaggerated the Phoenix PD's Kidnapping Statistics, Then Tried to Debunk His Own Numbers

Chinga La Migra Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement for Third Unprecedented Time

What "Chinga La Migra" calls "Fraternal Ownage of Police" Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of "Chinga La Migra" ("Fuck the Border Patrol," in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops' personal info.I only say ... More >>

Kidnapping Statistics Review Panel Finds No Fraud Committed by Phoenix Police Department

Phoenix police officials cleared of fraud allegations by panel charged with reviewing kidnapping statistics.​A panel convened to review the kidnapping statistics Phoenix touted in 2008 found that Phoenix police officials did not intentionally inflate those figures.In fact, the panel found there we ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 12, 2011

Under Mark Spencer's Leadership, the Phoenix Police Union Has Become an Anti-Immigrant Juggernaut, to the Detriment of Its Members

Mark Spencer's PLEA Supported Kidnapping Stats

From PLEA's RECAP newsletter, dated June 2008As I've pointed out in my cover story this week on Phoenix Law Enforcement Association president Mark Spencer and his sleazy ways, PLEA swallowed the Phoenix Police Department's controversial kidnapping stats whole hog at one time. Long before they used ... More >>

Richard Chrisman's Lawyer Defends PLEA BBQ, Slimes Sergio Virgillo Yet Again

Jamie PeachyAttorney Craig Mehrens: Clarence Darrow, he ain't For a hot-shot legal beagle, Craig Mehrens sure seems to have plenty of time to write op-eds for the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association.His latest ditty for the Phoenix police union's Web site defends PLEA's all-day BBQ/fundraiser today ... More >>

Richard Chrisman BBQ at PLEA Offices Protested

Protesters berate cops coming out of the Chrisman BBQCops and other attendees had to run the gauntlet today at a BBQ/fundraiser for fired, killer-cop Richard Chrisman, held in an underground enclosure at the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the powerful police union that reps rank and file Phoen ... More >>

Richard Chrisman, Killer Cop, Feted by PLEA at BBQ/Fundraiser this Thursday

azplea.comNo shame in PLEA's game, as you can see​I have to wonder if the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association would be so supportive of fired killer-cop Richard Chrisman if his victim had been white instead of Latino.PLEA has gone all out to back Chrisman, who has kept his lips zipped about the O ... More >>

Richard Chrisman, Killer Phoenix Cop, Canned

Chrisman:Scouring the want ads tonight?Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman, who faces a second-degree murder charge in the October 5 shooting death of South Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez, was terminated today by the City of Phoenix. Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sergeant Tommy Thompson ... More >>

Mark Spencer Lawyers-Up, Clams Up on Virgillo Smear

azplea.comSpencer: hear no evil, see no evil, and speak not to County Attorney investigators The Maricopa County Attorney's Office's investigation of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association and its president Mark Spencer, the subject of this week's Bird column, produced a nice doorstop pile of docum ... More >>

Is KPHO in Mark Spencer's Pocket?

Mark Spencer's PLEA Backstabs Own Members

Mark Spencer, betraying PLEA members one endorsement at a timeWhat would you call law enforcement union leaders who claim to battle for their members' public benefits during tough economic times, while handing out endorsements to lawmakers hell-bent on wiping out those benefits for good?Hypocrites? ... More >>

KPHO Cops the PLEA Line on a Report Swiped From Another Police Union, Flubbing the Story in the Process

Mark Spencer's Spin Machine, and KPHO's Flubbed Segment on Police Supes

KPHOThe "him" in "Fire him" is Mark Spencer, not Jack Harris... I have praised Channel 5/KPHO's reporters and producers in the past. I consider them colleagues. Not necessarily drinking-buddies. (Yet.) But I have fun chatting with them when I see them in the midst of the media scrum.Still, ... More >>

Richard Chrisman, Daniel Rodriguez's Autopsy Report, and PLEA's Spin

Forget the spin on Chrisman. Let a jury decide.As a follow-up to my colleague James King's recent blog item on Daniel Rodriguez's autopsy report and the fact that meth was found in his system, I'm posting the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's findings, here.One thing to keep in mind, a fact some se ... More >>

Russell Pearce Fundraiser To Be Protested Friday

Pearce builds his own trough and goes hog-wild FridayAnti-Russell Pearce activists are set to protest both a Friday, January 7 fundraiser for the state Senate President-elect, and the opening day of business for the Arizona Legislature on Monday, January 10, when Pearce will take his seat as the Dar ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Bill Montgomery and Montgomery's First Day as County Attorney

Bill Montgomery (right) being sworn in by Superior Court Judge Norm DavisAs Bill Montgomery was sworn in yesterday as Maricopa County Attorney, Sheriff Joe Arpaio sat glowering, Nixon-like, from the front row of the Board of Supervisors auditorium.After the ceremony, I asked Arpaio of he was checkin ... More >>

Richard Chrisman Report Released by Phoenix Police Department: Read It Here

Richard Chrisman, Phoenix cop and alleged murderer of Daniel RodriguezThe Phoenix Police Department report on the October 5 shooting of Daniel Rodriguez by Officer Richard Chrisman was released today. And there's plenty in it for both sides in this tragedy to make hay out of. Several officers r ... More >>

Rick Romley Says Police Union's Under Investigation in the Chrisman Murder Case

Channel 15 "Exclusive" on Baseline Killer Case Defines Lame

We wrote earlier this year about the obsession of Rusty Stuart, a veteran Phoenix street cop (in photo) who became fixated during the Baseline Killer investigation with the possible culpability of a seriously mentally ill low-level criminal named Terry Wayne Smith.   ​Here's the story,&n ... More >>

Phoenix PD Used to Smell Sweet Compared to the MCSO -- Now They Both Stink

Terry Goddard, Arizona's Spineless Attorney General, Betrays His Base of Supporters

Neo-Nazi Remorse? Ex-Skinhead Frank Meeink Says He Has It, and the Career Criminal Squad is Saved

Councilman Michael Johnson Cozies up to the Nation of Islam; and the Fault Line Between Brown and Black in Maricopa County

Phoenix Councilman Michael Johnson Dissed by Police Union He's Supported

In a battle between a former and current police officer, the Phoenix police union's sticking with the cop on the job. ​ Even though the former cop is Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson, a longtime union supporter.   Better to stand by Officer Brian Authement, a two-ye ... More >>

Michael Johnson Smackdown: Phoenix City Council Meeting Going On About Cop's Manhandling of Black Councilman

We broke the news last Friday of Phoenix city Councilman Michael Johnson's unfortunate run-in with a Phoenix police officer at the scene of a residential fire in his neighborhood.   ​ It's been the talk of the town, and the Phoenix City Council is meeting at this hour in closed sess ... More >>

Going Rogue: An Obsessive Phoenix Patrol Cop Tried to Nail the Wrong Guy in the Baseline Killer Case

Arizona Democratic Party and Ruben Gallego Take Money from Nativist Mark Spencer's PLEA

from gallegoforarizona.comReally, Ruben, it's not worth the $410...There's absolutely no doubt that Mark Spencer, head of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, has turned the police union into an anti-immigration juggernaut. Spencer has been a tireless backer of state Senator (and neo-N ... More >>

Judicial Watch Group Targets Double-Dipping by Phoenix Police Chief

​ Judicial Watch, a non-profit group based in Washington D.C., wants the state Attorney General's Office to find a way to reduce the paycheck of Police Chief Jack Harris. The group wrote a letter to Attorney General Terry Goddard recently, asking him to file a lawsuit against the Phoenix Pol ... More >>

Want to Do Drugs? Go to Mexico: Now Small Amounts are Legal!

​Parents will be delighted to learn that their college students now have a legal place to experiment with hard drugs. And it's just across the border. No Joke. Yesterday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed a controversial bill into law that will decriminalize the possession of small a ... More >>

Phoenix Police Recruiting Billboards Go for Soft Sell

Maybe this Phoenix police recruitment billboard does wonders for recruitment...      ... but it sure as heck doesn't inspire confidence in the police force.

Behind BadPhoenixCops.com: The Blogger Who Took on the Phoenix PD — and the Homicide Detective Who Might Be His Best Source

Immigration Bills in Queue at State Senate; Mesa's Russell Pearce Planning All-Out Push Against Illegals

The typical roster of proposed laws has been postponed this year as lawmakers try to finalize a budget, but plenty of interesting bills are hiding in the wings. A long list of bills targeting illegal immigrants, for example, is being pushed by Mesa's conservative State Senator Russell Pearce ... More >>

Phoenix Police Union Members Turned Away by City Council on Issue of Chief Jack Harris

  Souring relations between Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris (pictured at right) and members of the department's union were the source of a squabble at a City Council committee meeting today. As KTAR news (92.3 FM) reports, union president Mark Spencer and other union members want ... More >>

The Bird revels in Sheriff Joe's decline, slams Mark Spencer's false hysteria, and explains why "illegals" ain't criminals

Murder City

P-town's scratch-master sharpens his talons over Mayor Goober's crime stats, markers for dead cops and Jarrett Maupin's anti-N-word campaign

PLEA Bargain?

Phoenix cops are questioning the relationship between their union president and Ford

Hurtt So Good

The Spike just loves a man in a uniform

A Shot in the Dark

Phoenix police officer Frank Brown's elaborate tale of a back-road ambush is drawing fire from inside his own department

Two-Cop Cop-Out?

When an officer is senselessly murdered, the deliberative process dies, too

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RUBEN ORTEGA USED THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PURSUE HIS PERSONAL AGENDA-AND HIS POLITICAL FOES