Crime & Police

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.

He’ll continue to hold his badge, allowing him to apply at another department if he wishes.

Kelly’s lawyers allege Glendale officer James Calderon used excessive force by tasing Kelly multiple times, causing him to defecate himself.

The trial is set for January 14, 2020. If convicted of both counts, he faces a minimum sentence of 23 years in prison.

Johnson responded to a call from a caregiver about a man who had died from a gunshot wound at a home in the Sun Lakes neighborhood of Mesa.

The chief of the Goodyear Police Department, Jerry Geier, has been fired, city officials announced today.

The settlement comes just before the six-month deadline for Erica Reynolds to file a lawsuit against the city.

CoreCivic officers kept Justin Fuller from calling lawyers and a prison rape hotline, he said. They piled disciplinary reports on him and threw him in solitary.