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Phoenix Mayor Gallego gives State of the City speech

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego gave the annual State of the City address Friday.

She talked about work by the police department, which is chronically short-staffed, and under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department.

Gallego is a Democrat. Members of her party continue to wrestle with a slogan, which grew popular after the 2020 murder of George Floyd, as midterm elections loom. 

“So today I say publicly without reservation, I have never and will never defund the Phoenix Police Department,” said Gallego, who is not up for re-election this year.

Her current term as Phoenix mayor ends in 2025. 

Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.