Crime & Police

HB 2849 would offer reduced sentencing for inmates who work as firefighters for the state.

At the 2017 Trump rally, Phoenix police fired nearly 500 rounds of pepper spray balls into the crowd, along with 16 canisters of tear gas.

“I would not even be mentioning this if it were a one-time occurring issue, but it seems to be happening on a continual basis, and it needs to stop.”

The ex-Phoenix cop who was caught hitting a handcuffed man in the face will soon be permanently banned from working in law enforcement in Arizona.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has finished the criminal investigation into a deputy who tackled a limbless teenager last fall.

Court records show 52-year-old Jan Peter Meister left a voicemail that threatened to “blow [the congressman’s] brains out.”

Currently, prisoners can be placed in various forms of solitary confinement indefinitely.

The investigation that ended Geier’s career all began with a run-of-the-mill patrol briefing around noon on October 2, 2019.

It was Allister Adel’s first major decision on a high-profile police shooting since she took office in October.

It’s a sliver of Arizona officers, but the records show the unethical, and, in some cases, criminal, conduct some cops engage in while on duty.

The jail denied the man’s repeated pleas for medical attention, the notice of claim alleges.

Firefighting prisoners want the state to recognize their labor through earlier release.

Dion Humphrey had just dropped his two sisters off at school when Phoenix cops drove up, threw a flashbang device, then shot him with a rubber bullet.

Based on faulty location data from Google, Avondale police arrested an innocent 23-year-old man and accused him of a crime punishable by death.

Emily Lopatofsky disappeared for six months and was found pregnant and confused in a Cancún hospital. It all started with a violent encounter Phoenix police aren’t eager to explain.

The proposed legislation homes in on inmates who are injured while working for the state or through its prison labor program.

Autonomous, camera-equipped vehicles like Waymo can provide law enforcement with what is essentially a traveling fleet of surveillance cameras.

Valentina Gloria will remain in mental health facilities while awaiting trial.

Video of the incident doesn’t match officers’ descriptions of the shooting, and the 120-page police report is rife with inconsistencies.

Three months after his indictments.

AZPOST took no action against a Tempe officer who tased a man in his own apartment who was holding his 1-year-old baby.

The tweet was apparently meant to assure Phoenix residents that they were safe, but the message had the opposite effect.