CLEVELAND, Ohio —The city of Cleveland is ground zero on how the DOJ destroys communities. As the city approaches their 9th year under a federal consent decree, the citizens have now realized what a complete disaster the decree has had on the safety and finances of the city. The city has spent over 60 million…
Federal consent decrees are not about constitutional policing; they are about “culture change.” You don’t need to take my word for it. Just read the latest consent decree monitor report from the new Cleveland monitor: “CDP must focus on the biggest challenge ahead: changing the culture of the organization…CDP has not yet completed this broad…
I just received my ballot for the November 7th election here in Phoenix and the city has two bond issues up for approval. One is for 214 million dollars to “Enhance Community Safety through Fire, Police, Roadway and Pedestrian Infrastructure” and the second is for 108 million dollars to “Improve Quality of Life in Phoenix…
As of July 2022, the city had spent $1.9 million on its efforts to cooperate with the U.S. Justice Department civil investigation into Phoenix Police. An investigation that Phoenix voluntarily agreed to. The bulk of that expense up to now has involved the $1.35 million in salaries paid to the nine fulltime employees who have…
Phoenix officers and residents have expressed concerns that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will use a consent decree to take over the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), as they have done for several dozen other major cities across the country. Activists accused the DOJ of using a rinse-and-repeat playbook: launching opaque investigations into police departments over…
Department of Justice uses “Consent Decrees” to takeover local police departments. The decrees strip local Sheriff’s and Police Chief’s of their executive decision authority. This process has happened to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and could soon happened to the Phoenix Police Department. The fact is the DOJ cannot force any local agency into enter…
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell on Wednesday warned that prosecuting criminals from Phoenix could become more difficult in the future if the U.S. Justice Department takes steps to oversee the Phoenix Police Department. Phoenix police are the target of a civil rights investigation by the DOJ, which is investigating whether officers use excessive…
Two years, two months and two weeks have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice began its wide-ranging investigation of the Phoenix Police Department. While investigators inch toward a resolution, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell rebuked the DOJ’s effort to assess the practices of Phoenix police. “I know that we’re looking at another DOJ investigation…
While we have spoken extensively of the damage consent decrees have caused communities in the terms of higher violent crime, a more difficult metric is the cost of a consent decree. Any city that volunteers to have their police department monitored by the federal government has to pay for it through their own budget. While…
In this October 16, 2023 episode of the Mike Broomhead Show, Mike discusses the dire consequences of what a Consent Decree would do to the City of Phoenix. That discussion begins at the 15:30 mark. Listen Here.