When Democrats take the White House, they want to take over local police departments. Phoenix said no, and now it has backup from Donald Trump.
The Biden administration did not take legal action against Phoenix to impose sweeping changes the U.S. Justice Department said were needed following a yearslong civil rights investigation. Now the new Trump administration has put a freeze on civil rights cases.
The Phoenix PD lieutenant who ran the city’s controversial protest response team claimed that he has never read the Department of Justice report that found many problems with how his team operated.
The Phoenix Police Department has not had a permanent police chief since Jeri Williams retired in the summer of 2022.
The Phoenix Police Department had a win Wednesday when the jury sided with them in a federal civil rights lawsuit that claimed officers unfairly targeted two protesters because of their anti-police views.
It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.
Trial began seven months after the U.S. Department of Justice declared the Phoenix Police Department engaged in patterns of civil rights violations and excessive force.
The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration
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A federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump's bid to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
The state's top education officials is opposed to a new Trump administration directive allowing immigration officials to pursue those not here legally in schools.
An Arizona law that prohibits criminal defense attorneys from directly contacting crime victims or their families was reinstated Thursday by a federal appeals court.