Crime & Police

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.

Recently, Phoenix cops have faced discipline for using a baby voice to mock a suspect, drunkenly telling casino security staff they had “jurisdiction over the whole West Coast,” and fist fighting on duty.

Attorneys for a man slated to be executed next month argued that Arizona’s clemency board was unlawfully stacked with former cops. A judge dismissed their lawsuit.

A board that can decide the fate of people on death row is stacked, illegally, with former cops, a new lawsuit argues.

Extortion and romance and fraud, oh my! Arizona seniors were scammed out of more than $27 million last year, mostly by other, younger Arizonans.

No officers responded to Schroeder’s threats. Until Schroeder called again, eight minutes later, saying: “Come get the body.”

Arizona has not carried out the death penalty since the gruesome botched execution of Joseph Wood eight years ago.

Alt-right “journalist” Jordan Conradson isn’t old enough to drink or smoke, but he did manage to get himself tossed in the slammer on Sunday after injuring his girlfriend in her home.

Ronald Kerzaya remained on the Tempe Police Department force even after he held a Black hotel worker at gunpoint as he searched for a white suspect. He has since lost his license to hold a badge and gun.

New research suggests the coronavirus pandemic transformed the Tempe Police Department more than the killing of George Floyd did.

More catalytic converters are stolen in Arizona than in 41 other states, according to a report this week from State Farm.