The Phoenix City Council set an end-of-March deadline for crews that handle certain crisis calls without police officers, firefighters or paramedics to have availability around the clock.
Public Safety and Justice Subcommittee members are scheduled to get an update Wednesday on the Community Assistance Program.
The order to establish 24/7 dispatch coverage came down in September, months after civil rights investigators for the U.S. Justice Department said the city and its police discriminate against people with behavioral health disabilities.
City officials say the number of police calls transferred to crisis intervention supervisors spiked last year to roughly 2,000. There’s a supervisor available to work dispatch about two-thirds of the time.
Behavioral health units and crisis response teams are currently on the road for all but a combined seven-and-a-half hours per week.
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The group’s new artist rendition is of a teen thought to be of Honduran descent known only as Jane Tucson Doe — a girl between 17 and 22 years old who was found dead on Nov. 1, 1979, near I-10, southeast of Tucson. -
The Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix says the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is working with the immigration and customs enforcement. It recently published this information via social media to the Mexican community. -
No Turquoise Alert had been issued but on Monday, authorities discovered human remains in Navajo County near the Knots Landing community in Whiteriver on the Fort Apache Reservation. -
The self-described conservative group sued the Democratic governor for records to see if she ordered local law enforcement to not comply with federal immigration efforts. A press person said the records don't exist because she ordered DPS to comply with the law. -
Oftentimes, Native American communities lack re-entry support after incarceration. Some Arizona organizations are aiming to fill this gap.
