Phoenix has hit a new milestone. But it’s not a pretty one. In 2018, the number of police shootings hit 44, more than twice the number in 2017. And both the police and the public have aired their views on exactly why the number is so high and is growing so rapidly. Phoenix is the […]
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A study released this month ranks cities in Arizona according to safety, based primarily on violent crime statistics. The research was published by Safewise, a home security company headquartered in Utah, which says that it shows, among other things, the 20 safest Arizona cities – as well as some cities that are . . .
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A recent article reported that a Phoenix man has been charged with 70 counts of “cockfighting.” When most folks think about animal cruelty, they might be alarmed at the thought of harming animals, but probably don’t think the law is particularly harsh when it comes to criminal charges. Well, those people would be wrong. Animal
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If you think that laws are passed or defeated by the votes of a majority of the legislators you elect, think again. As a follow-up to a recent blog article on our website discussing criminal justice reform in Arizona, we’d like to focus on bi-partisan attempts by many members of the state legislature to make
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The Supreme Court of Arizona is going to decide whether marijuana extracts, including hashish, are covered and therefore legal under the state’s medical marijuana law. A lower court found that the extracts were not covered, and this appeal followed. Back in 2010, Arizona voters approved the law legalizing medical marijuana. The result of the voter
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Company Cleared in Fatal Self-Driving Crash A fatal crash occurred in Tempe last year involving a pedestrian and an Uber “self-driving” car. The case against Uber was shifted over to the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office, presumably because of some kind of conflict of interest with Maricopa County. The Yavapai County Attorney concluded earlier this month
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In a December opinion piece in the Arizona Capitol Times, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery claims that “Arizona leads in criminal justice reform.” We’re not exactly who Bill thinks we’re leading, but he does point to several items he says support his position. However, before we go into the specifics, we should tell you that
A man is facing the death penalty after being convicted of first degree murder and other charges by a jury in Phoenix. The case goes back to 2009, when Travis Ricci, a “neo-Nazi”, saw an interracial couple at a local park. Ricci apparently hurled some racial epithets at the man, who is black, and questioned
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We reported in our blog last year (Arizona Ranks High in Cyber Crime) that Arizonans were in the top tier of Americans when it came to being victims of cyber crime. A year later, the news in our state is even worse. In fact, according to a new study, Arizona ranks first in monetary loss
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The crime rate in Phoenix has declined steadily since the 1990’s, although there has been a bit of an uptick in the past few years. The rate is more or less on a par with other cities and with the nation as a whole. Nevertheless, the police say that assaults against police officers are on
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