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 vi...
Cities in Arizona Ranked by Violent Crime Rate
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 U...
Animal Cruelty Laws in Arizona
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,...
Criminal Justice Reform Thwarted by Single Arizona Legislator
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 r...
Arizona Supreme Court to Decide Hashish/Medical Marijuana Case
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 e...
No Manslaughter Charge for Uber
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 C...
County Attorney: Arizona Leads the Way in Criminal Justice Reform – Others are not so sure
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’...
Neo-Nazi Found Guilty of Murder in 2009 Shooting
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 interraci...
Cyber Crime Continues to Plague Arizona
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...
Rise in Police Violence in Phoenix
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 n...