Crime & Police

As the jail population returns to pre-pandemic levels, Maricopa County faces a severe shortage of detention officers and healthcare workers.

Eleven years after Ame Deal was locked in a plastic box and left to die, her cousin’s conviction was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court.

Michael Sullivan has worked in law enforcement in Baltimore and Louisville, two other cities facing major investigations by the Department of Justice.

Prosecutors have a message for AZ Patriots leader Jennifer Harrison: You’re not getting off so easy this time.

Last year, Stanley Howard, a 64-year-old man with mental health issues and a water gun, was shot more than 10 times by Phoenix police officers.

AZ Patriots leader Jennifer Harrison is wanted by police after an altercation at a pro-choice protest.

Phoenix has a preliminary plan to move certain calls away from police. But activists say the city has been slow to implement long-desired police reforms.

In the year since the Department of Justice announced that the Phoenix police department was under investigation, the city of Phoenix has provided investigators with more than one million pages of documents.

CrimeDoor uses augmented and virtual reality technology to help keep cold cases in the spotlight by re-creating real crime scenes down to the most graphic, gory, and ultra-realistic detail.

A Phoenix auto dealer is using new technology to help victims like Michael Darland, whose catalytic converters were stolen seven times in a year.

The plan, which takes effect August 8, will raise the salaries of every sworn member by at least $16,000 – and in most cases, by far more.

Teenager Caleb Blair’s death in Phoenix has echoes of George Floyd. In both incidents, cops responded to a Black man experiencing a fentanyl-fueled health crisis.

“All I want is for this to serve as justice – and a lesson to the sheriff’s department,” said Brian Ortiz’s mother.

Frank Atwood, who Arizona will execute on Wednesday, is one of the state’s longest-serving death row prisoners. Here are some of the others.

According to government officials and security experts, Mexican drug cartels are using social media websites and even online video games in the recruitment of new members in Arizona to supply transnational drug and human trafficking operations.

The suspect was busted Thursday with 1,200 catalytic converters, which curtail pollution from cars and trucks, piled high inside a self-storage unit near East Washington and 37th streets rented under his name.

Chandler officer Chase Bebak-Miller, who shot and killed 17-year-old Anthony Cano in January 2021, will not face charges in his death.

The settlements that are expected to be approved Wednesday will add to the millions in legal payouts that Phoenix has made to resolve claims over its law enforcement practices.

Clarence Dixon’s lawyers have argued that his history of mental illness should disqualify him from the death penalty.

“It’s a scandal,” said Lola N’sangou, executive director of advocacy group Mass Liberation Arizona. “And [Williams] is leaving right in the middle, while she’s on the hot seat.”

Phoenix police chief Jeri Williams will retire “sometime this summer.”

Clarence Dixon’s fate is in the hands of the courts.