Phoenix Police Union Takes Aim at Councilman Carlos Garcia
“A token member! The board needed to brown up the place!” read one response to PLEA’s post. “How much are the cartels paying him?” asked another.
“A token member! The board needed to brown up the place!” read one response to PLEA’s post. “How much are the cartels paying him?” asked another.
Police say the shooting was justified. But video doesn’t match what officers said. Now, police are fighting to keep additional film under wraps.
Throughout the community meeting at Pilgrim Rest, city officials took notes and collected comment cards. Here’s what the notes and comment cards say.
Montgomery’s bid for the state’s highest court is moving ahead, despite backlash over his handling of sexual misconduct and demands for his resignation.
The retired Phoenix police officer is the lead instructor of a class that aims to “graduate good citizens.”
Tempe pastor Steven Anderson went to Orlando last week on the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting for a Make America Straight Again conference.
Dante Patterson says Officer Meyer pepper-sprayed him as he walked away. Meyer charged Patterson with aggravated assault, but the charge was later dropped.
“You know how hard it is to bury your brother? To put clothes on his dead body?” said the brother of Hector Lopez, who was shot and killed by cops.
“I haven’t been able to sleep … it just keeps flashing back — the gun, a barrel being pointed at my face. I keep seeing the same thing over and over.”
The report fails to mention that one cop held a pregnant mother and her children at gunpoint while another said, “You’re gonna fucking get shot!”
Phoenix police won’t ID the officer who said, “I’m gonna put a fucking cap in your fucking head!” The family filed a $10M claim against the city.
Ames says it all began after his daughter walked out of a Family Dollar with a doll. Phoenix police say they’re investigating the incident.
Emails shared with New Times show Polk had explicitly asked lawmakers to oppose the sentencing reform bill.
“I lost sleep at night wondering when [the well] was going to crap out,” said Jay Howe, former director of Cochise County’s facilities and airports.
The racist Facebook posts are far from the only scandal to hit the Phoenix Police Department in recent years.
“If you guys want to sit here and stand by these cops that are putting these racist posts on Facebook, then you’re just as racist as they are.”
London decried the criticism as a “hunt for negative spin” that failed to mention officers’ positive posts.
The same cops who called black people “thugs” and Muslims “rapists” have a history of allegedly killing and gravely injuring people.
The posts reveal a chilling culture of intolerance and prejudice among Phoenix police officers, who frequently referred to black people as “thugs.”
Over 14 times, Kirkpatrick told cops his wrist hurt and begged them to help. Mesa cops laughed and said, “It’s supposed to” hurt and “That’s what you get.”
Curiel claims Phoenix police officer James Byrd began shooting him without ever identifying himself as a police officer, then sicced a dog on him.
Lawmakers are funneling $11 million to Ducey’s Border Strike Task Force, though the task force has achieved little more than good press for the governor.