Crime & Police

“A warrantless body cavity search, in a police substation, by a police officer, following an unlawful arrest. A refusal to investigate the victim’s complaints of assault.”

The Phoenix city council has stalled on an effort to implement independent oversight of the police. Things look different this year.

Dante Patterson says Officer Meyer pepper-sprayed him as he walked away. Meyer charged Patterson with aggravated assault, but the charge was later dropped.

Four hours of public comment.

“Islam is the red pilled faith.”

“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!”

In 2018, APS cut off power to customers more than 110,000 times.

“If this turns out not to be default, I assume the state is going to charge Mr. Brooks with conspiracy to steal vehicles.”

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.

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.”

Also, the terrorism charges were dropped against him.

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 31-year-old had a blood alcohol content of .156, nearly twice the legal limit in Arizona.

Advocates say they are perplexed as to why House and Senate leaders seem bent on protecting institutions instead of people who have endured some of life’s worst cruelties.

Feds alleged “Wells described himself in his posts as a skinhead, Neo-Nazi, ‘liberal killer,’ and a member of the South Bay Skinheads.”

Proposed laws would extend the statute of limitations for survivors to sue their abusers.

A SPD spokesperson claims they were classifying rapes as “unfounded” when they should have been labeled “inactive.”

Robert Johnson, the man whose brutal beating sparked international outcry, filed a federal lawsuit against the city and three Mesa cops on Friday.