The new year in Phoenix has brought a turn of events in the multiple year, 6 million dollar saga, that has been the DOJ investigating the Phoenix Police Department. The DOJ wants the city council to sign an agreement for a consent decree but when the council asked for the actual results of the investigation,…
As we mentioned in a previous article, the DOJ has a problem. For the first time, a major city has refused to simply sign up for a multi-million dollar consent decree, that promises higher violence and fewer cops, before seeing the results of the investigation. The DOJ can’t leave because that would signal to future…
PHOENIX – As the U.S. Department of Justice continues its investigation into the Phoenix Police Department, members of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office providing some insight to the Phoenix City Council, explaining their own dealings with a federal investigation. Phoenix Police has been under investigation by the DOJ since August 2021, over patterns of practice…
One of the critiques we have heard from this website is that consent decrees look so bad from our content that it simply can’t be all true. We’ve challenged anyone that believes that to show us one thing here that is false…just one. We are still waiting. Even when it comes to Christmas, the DOJ…
Our recent article on helping Phoenix police officers find other jobs if a consent decree is imposed, caused at least one of our followers to pose us a question. “If you truly care about Saving Phoenix, why would you encourage officers to leave the agency?” That answer is pretty simple. We have done more than…
Phoenix Interim Police Chief Michael Sullivan has been very quiet over the last few weeks which we find odd considering his agency is facing one of the most important important decisions in history. A consent decree imposed on the Phoenix Police Department will radically change that agency and community for generations. That is not hyperbole;…
9/1/24: An update to this story as reported by the Phoenix Police Department…They have spent 10.6 million dollars. Prior to even having a consent decree, the City of Phoenix has spent 5.5 million dollars in cooperating with the DOJ. This week, the City Council approved an additional $700,000 in legal fees as the city is…
We care deeply for Phoenix and we have done all that we can to warn the decision makers that a police consent decree will destroy our fine city. As much as we care for the city, we have to be clear that if they agree to a consent decree, there will be no more fighting…
A few weeks ago, we wondered what Interim Chief Michael Sullivan was doing and questioned why he was not making decisions to improve the Phoenix Police Department in various areas. His comment that he was “waiting” for the DOJ concerned us and we gave several areas that he could be working on that wold not…
As we said just days ago, there will be significant pressure placed on the City Councilors to sign off on a consent decree without actually looking at the evidence the DOJ has collected over the last two years and as expected, articles and news are rampant about the need to sign an agreement for federal…