No Phoenix officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members

Maybe in the past. Something tells me they're cool with the FBI for now

As someone from the Valley, I can tell you that ***all*** law enforcement in Maricopa County is corrupt as f***! We kept voting for Arpaio no matter how f****** *openly* corrupt he was, or how proud of his little concentration camp, Tent City he was. That f***** used the MCSO has his own private army to stalk, harass and intimidate employees of the Phoenix New Times, since they were about the only media outlet that would cover Arpaio's abuses of power. Then you got the Mesa Police Department quietly re-hiring Mitch Brailsford just long enough to collect a disability pension\* after being acquitted for executing Daniel Shaver in the sickest version of Simon Says either. Brailsford's sergeant, who was the one shouting those conflicting orders *knew* they were fucked so he retired and fled to the f****** Philippines. ***Do not watch the bodycam footage unless you wanna have your week ruined,*** because that poor f****** dude was so scared and confused while begging for his life. Oh, and MAGA? BLM marched for Shaver in 2016, because it didn't matter to them that he was a white man executed by police, just that he was a human executed by police. So stop acting like y'all showed up or that BLM doesn't care when it's a white person, because they care more than the NRA did when Philando Castile was executed for properly informing the police that he had a weapon in the car. Despite Phoenix leaning left in elections, the rest of Maricopa County and most of Arizona outside of Tucson and Flagstaff is conservative as f***, and they love it when the police overstep their bounds and extrajudicially deliver "justice" to "criminals", their code for non-white people. It's why [fascist leg-humpers like Arpaio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio#Presidential_pardon) stayed in power for so long, and why murderers like Brailsford can be acquitted of murder charges. It also helped that Brailsford was a good li'l return missionary for the Mormon church, because the Mormons set their hooks *deep* in Arizona after they settled in the Salt Lake Valley, and the phrase "return missionary" will taint the *f**** out of a Mormon's perception of a person. That is no joke, I was born and raised in that cult and heard "but he's an RM and from such a good family, there's no way he'd use drugs" countless times in reference to the a******, drug abusing and selling son of my bishop, who was currently engaged in bank and wire fraud while our bishop.^\*\* As soon as I heard Brailsford was Mormon, I knew no jury in Maricopa County would convict him.   ^\*and ^his ^disability? ^Developing ^PTSD ^for ^suffering ^the ^indignity ^of ^being ^fired ^and ^charged ^with ^second-degree ^murder. ^He ^only ^had ^to ^be ^on ^the ^Mesa ^PD's ^payroll ^for ^6 ^weeks ^to ^apply ^for ^a ^"accidental ^disability" ^experienced ^during ^the ^course ^of ^work ^pension. ^It ^worked, ^and ^he's ^earning ^$2,500 ^month ^for ^life ^no ^matter ^what ^he ^does. ^\*\*FBI ^arrested ^him ^and ^half ^his ^family ^for ^bank\wire ^fraud, ^conspiracy ^and ^money ^laundering ^about ^a ^decade ^after ^he ^was ^our ^bishop. ^That ^was ^the ^*least* ^surprising ^news ^I'd ^ever ^heard.

All PDs are notoriously corrupt. The L.A. pd was under investigation by the F.B.I. and it was so infested with cop gangs so bad they stopped the investigation. Yet morons still worship them as "heros" because of a uniform. Heros do heroic things. I can put Jeffrey dohmer in dress blues and he'd look good but still a serial killer cannibal. Put a bully in a police uniform and you still have a bully, but now he has the right to ruin uh our life for thier own amusement. edit LASD. birds of a feather ...

Our entire police system is just layers of corruption and immorality based upon their qualified immunity, their ability to have laws for us and laws for them, which have turned them into the biggest gangs in the country… all by design.

I worked with a woman whose husband was a Phoenix PD officer. He wanted to change the institution from the inside and reported civil rights violations. I don't remember if he was fired or hounded so much that he quit, but in either case, the stress of it was so bad he ended up in the hospital, and he never went back to police work. The system is set up to make it almost impossible for good people to stick to their morals and have a career.

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We keep hearing this about every PD office. 

Feels like this is true for all PDs.

Sounds like they would be an excellent recruitment for ICE

Excuse me, but you seem to have written "Phoenix PD" when you actually meant to write "Every PD".

In 2024 the DOJ began the process of entering into a consent decree with the Phoenix PD. Guess who had the investigation dropped.

Without googling it, I feel like you might be mixing up Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Phoenix PD. MSCO certainly has the most notorious rep around here. edit: I stand corrected. Both our major police forces around here are fucked up. Oh, and don't forget to add Mesa PD, which on the street level has the reputation as the biggest scumbag cops.

Which PD isn't corrupt and racist at this point?

4 months later, out of retirement, back on the force with $150k salaries and fully funded Healthcare

Hey, maybe we can all use this loophole but just don't know it. Next time I get convicted I'm gonna say: "Your honor, you actually can't sentence me for this crime because I hereby officially retire."

Sound like 3 people who should lose their pension.

I would like to see a system that can investigate and apply punishments to police officers in a similar capacity to the military. Basically a court system that can strike their career record as dishonorable barring them from federal benefits related to their police work, the ability to hired in any other federal position, and their identities permanently marked on easily accessible public registry. Treat the fuckers like felons and sex offenders just without the legal repercussions of prison and fines.

It should be a crime, they should be in jail.

Can still be be sued but that takes time and money...

Truly a state treasure. I can't imagine the hate mail he must get from the wackos, and he just keeps plowing ahead.

> To see an entire justice system being used as a weapon against a few non violent demonstrators was a warning to all of us.  They've been doing this since before any of us were born.

Yeah he's been killing it with these stories on police corruption and malfeasance. 

Invent fake gang to falsely charge people and walk free. If that’s not alarming idk what is

Some people forget why cops exist and these officers are just reminding everyone  :)

It wasn’t long ago that the White House shared an AI altered photo of a protester.

Don’t forget the part where the Maricopa county prosecutor’s office forgot to charge a bunch of drunk drivers, as well as these very protestors. Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel was a drunk and she had checked herself into drug rehab and a bunch of charges Then once she got out she was awol for a week an it turned out she killed herself. All this is a year or less after it was revealed that the police department had a Facebook group that was filled with racist shit and the chief was in the group. On top of all that the Phoenix police had shot a protester in the nuts with bean bags. Those cops made a commemorative coin that said “Goodnight left nut” which is an intentional reference to the Nazi slogan “Goodnight left side”.

Surely if we just give them even more money for training it will be fixed THIS time, right?

Sorry, bud, this is Phoenix. Plenty of back the blue no matter who bumper stickers around the white suburbs.

Largest, most powerful and protected union in the U.S. = Law enforcement which is incredibly ironic considering the well established disdain for labor unions that conservatives harbor.

Right? But if you or I forget to tell the IRS abut out of state purchase for $20, we go straight to jail for tax evasion.

They're not the good guys

Every dog has its day.

And never, ever, take street justice to their door.

I'm so happy Afroman won!

Lots of those jobs around. Supreme Court justice, President, News owner, random billionaire, oil company executive, etc.

And when you want to buy a boat, just tell your chief and he will sign 30 hours of overtime that you never worked Win win for them. 23 year old gets a few extra grand a paycheck and chief gets to show that he needs his budget increased again. Def not welfare queens. 

Arizona is a state I avoid giving a shit about. It’s trending toward sundown town style states like Mississippi each year

What's the statute of limitation on kidnapping? What about perjury?

That is the same reason Bovini retired out. He knew he was in trouble and wanted to retire out and save his pension.

So they can silence dissent

Doing so without a judges order will have you branded a vigilante. Better to instead petition for the outlawry process to be brought back, as anyone can legally kill an outlaw

Yeah, nothing corrects bad police behavior like taxpayers writing a check.

You should have your computer checked. Nothing happened on mine.

That might be a you problem. You probably have some malware installed or something.