Crime & Police

Phoenix is launching a drone program this summer but questions remain about how privacy will be considered once in the hands of the police department.

Not enough workers. Constant lockdowns. Conditions in Maricopa County’s troubled jail system are worsening.

Charles Ryan once reigned supreme over Arizona’s prisons. Now, he might be locked up.

Hundreds of dead people, many homeless, are still waiting to be identified in Maricopa County in the wake of a recent breakthrough in a 1983 murder.

After George Floyd’s death, the city of Phoenix pushed to seal records in the case of Muhammad Muhaymin, who died as he cried out, “I can’t breathe.” Now public, the records show how hard the city fought to keep the case secret.

A Phoenix cop took a $1.2 million paycheck protection program loan for an organization without any employees, the feds say.

After speaking up about coronavirus sweeping across Maricopa County jails, a detention sergeant was put on administrative leave for more than three months. His attorney says that’s a violation of his freedom of speech. Now a judge will decide.

None of the officers involved in Muhammad Muhaymin’s death were ever disciplined. But some had a troubling history of excessive force.

A mental health call gone seriously wrong is the subject of a new lawsuit against the city of Mesa.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office recommended the cop be charged with child abuse. But he was never prosecuted and remains on the force.

More law enforcement officers have died from COVID-19 in Arizona than gunfire this year.

The former Gila River Police Department sergeant admitted to sending a direct subordinate a dick pic.

Advocates say they see the spending as a metaphor for the poor priorities of Arizona’s troubled prison system

The lawsuit alleges that the Phoenix Police Department engaged in a “cover-up.”

“People asked me, ‘Well, did you think of killing him at that time?’ Well, yes, I did – who wouldn’t in that situation?”

New claims against Chandler police allege officers targeted activists for arrest – and then gave them toilet water to drink.

Globe cops allegedly knew that Memory Burns was mentally ill and taser her anyway.

“They put every possible thing to put in those cars.”

A “real-time crime center” is coming to Mesa on the federal government’s dime.

A new lawsuit blasts the practices of Phoenix police’s “lethal” tactical units.

“It really goes contrary to the spirit of the job.”

A board that can revoke officers’ law enforcement certifications has reopened Brian Thatcher’s case.