Crime & Police

“They didn’t have to shoot my son down like a dog in the street.”

Two lawsuits hope to lift the veil of secrecy over the city’s contract negotiations with a police union.

The deaths by Phoenix police officers include three shootings in four days.

Two years and $15 million later, the city of Phoenix fails to expand its mental health crisis intervention program.

The tiger cub, recovered by Phoenix police in January, “is in great condition” and receiving “world-class care.”

In November, Goodyear police officers broke down Marshun Neeley’s front door and restrained him on the ground with handcuffs as a police dog bit his leg.

Two of the officers involved in the shooting of Ali Osman, who threw rocks at a patrol car, have since been promoted

Asking for money on the street is now largely illegal in Glendale – and multiple offenses may be punishable with six months of jail time.

How could a man with no history of violence and housed in a mental health ward in an Arizona prison, be prosecuted for splashing sink water on a prison guard?

Remember the infamous virile tagger of 2020? Well, “Penis Man” might be active again in Phoenix.

The focus by Phoenix and Glendale police on human trafficking and panhandling ahead of the Super Bowl has some civil rights activists concerned.

The far-right media personality with a history of disturbances in Phoenix reported to Miami’s Federal Correctional Institution on Monday.

“I’m not going to give extensions,” a judge warned Sheriff Paul Penzone during a court hearing in a long-running racial discrimination suit.

Two Phoenix officers caught on video beating a handcuffed man who moments earlier shot at them will not face charges, prosecutors said Monday.

“Will these policy changes simply be ink on paper? Or will they actually be able to change a very broken and corrupt culture at the Phoenix Police Department?”

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport had the fifth-highest number of guns seized in 2022 among all airports in the nation, with 196 guns seized.

Executions are on pause now in Arizona, as the governor starts an independent review of the state’s use of the death penalty.

The new police contract will help shape the power and practices of the embattled Phoenix Police Department. But it’ll likely be kept secret until it’s finalized.

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone is challenging a judge’s November ruling holding him in contempt of court in a decades-long court case.

After shooting to death 10 people in 2022, the Phoenix Police Department has recorded two police killings in the first week of 2023.

The execution date of Aaron Gunches is nearing. Will new Attorney General Kris Mayes move to stop it?

The week of November 28 was a deadly one for the Phoenix Police Department.