Phoenix has planned to name a permanent police chief in April.
But a spokesperson for the city manager’s office is mum on whether the announcement will come now or later in the month.
Command-staff members in Mesa and Oakland, California, are among a quartet of finalists to be chief of Phoenix police.
They face two internal candidates, one of whom has been acting chief for years. He recently enacted new rules for when officers can shoot suspects or use other force.
The move drew union pushback. So did suspending officers involved in the violent arrest of a deaf man with cerebral palsy after an internal review.
The permanent chief will lead a chronically understaffed department that received blistering findings in a civil rights investigation less than a year ago.
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The Tucson City Council today will hear a presentation about a new pilot program called the Focused Deterrence Quality of Life Initiative. It’s a six-month pilot and appears to be focused on the city’s northwest side. -
Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used to grow the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug trafficking organization. -
A shooting in Tucson early Sunday morning resulted in 10 people being wounded, including a male suspect who was taken into custody with life-threatening injuries. -
The Chandler Police Department is launching a back-to-school traffic safety campaign. It comes just a few months after a student was fatally struck by a car near a school campus. -
Researchers used bystander video and news reports to put together a database of incidents where pepper spray, rubber bullets and other measures were used by law enforcement — resulting in injuries ranging from cuts and burns, to traumatic brain injuries.
