Police & Law Enforcement

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.

An email sent to Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell, City Council members, and the city manager may offer some insight as to why the city changed its mind.

At the 26-member Globe PD, two chiefs resigned (one is suing), two got banned from law enforcement, two were suspended, and two were accused of abuse.

Vasquez told police he had videos and photos of children as young as toddlers on his cellphone, police say.

She tried to protect her neck as she feared for her life and she screamed for her 10-year-old daughter to come,” Faust said.

The vulnerable woman seems rightfully terrified, grabbing onto a pole to stop herself from being wheeled out against her will.

Ryff alleged the city breached a non-disparagement agreement and prevented him from getting a job with the Tempe Union High School District

A Yuma school resource officer has resigned after the department learned he had struck up a personal and sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

Watch out while driving — you may be sharing the road with the lead-footed state DPS director.

Officers declined to aid in prosecution against their fellow officer.

All of them were under his care as inmates at the Cochise County Jail.

“That is a flat lie,” Snow said. “It is a misstatement to the Latino community members present.”

Bell, who is homeless, has been charged with a class 6 felony for allegedly stealing a burrito.

Sue Jiang has been in a Shanghai prison for nearly three months. Her family and friends in Arizona are still looking for answers.

Phoenix remains the largest city in the country without independent oversight of police, but after the meeting on Tuesday, that seems sure to change.

New Times reviewed the 300-page case file and interviewed seven key players in a double homicide with eight witnesses that Phoenix Police let run cold.

The suit refers to footage of officers joking around and “blowing bubbles with their chewing gum” while Fitzpatrick bled to death just inside the house.

Deputy Manuel Van Santen is on administrative leave following the disturbing video of him tackling a limbless teen. A criminal probe is also underway.

The SRO “chose to return to patrol” voluntarily, the Phoenix Police Department said.

After a 15-year-old quadruple amputee knocked over a trash can at a group home, a Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy tackled the teen to the ground.

The city of Mesa doesn’t want ex-Police Chief Ramon Batista to tell anyone why he resigned — and they’re paying him nearly $90,000 not to.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs worries that Arizona Department of Corrections will still treat any fresh settlement as unenforceable.