After city leaders met privately on Tuesday, Phoenix said its interim police chief will assess reform recommendations from the U.S. Justice Department in a lengthy report released this month.
When revealing their findings, the feds cited the East Coast department that Michael Sullivan used to work for as an example of where real police reform is underway.
Sullivan came to Phoenix about two years ago from Baltimore, where the police department remains under a court-enforceable-reform deal with the feds that is overseen by a monitor.
Sullivan is mentioned 13 times in the feds’ report on Phoenix.
The feds say that Sullivan has already started implementing reforms here, such as new standards for when Phoenix officers can use violence.
The Phoenix report quotes Sullivan as saying, "I saw some uses of force that made me think we need to do something different.”
Sullivan spent his last year in Baltimore as commander of the compliance bureau, working to meet goals detailed in the reform deal there.
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A Phoenix police officer who was hospitalized in critical condition for days after being shot during a burglary call died Friday. Fellow officers are mourning the loss of Officer Zane Coolidge. -
Officer Zane Coolidge had been hospitalized in critical condition since Tuesday night when he and another officer were shot while on a burglary call near 16th Street and McDowell Road. -
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday at a Phoenix rally that he lamented that school shootings are a “fact of life" and argued the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia. -
In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel gave the go-ahead for Brian Houston to sue the Maricopa County over the practice of its sheriff's department of routinely putting pictures of anyone processed through its jail on the internet. -
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies show the vast majority of fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry. And the people bringing it into the country are native born Americans.
