When Democrats take the White House, they want to take over local police departments. Phoenix said no, and now it has backup from Donald Trump.

The Biden administration did not take legal action against Phoenix to impose sweeping changes the U.S. Justice Department said were needed following a yearslong civil rights investigation. Now the new Trump administration has put a freeze on civil rights cases.

The Phoenix PD lieutenant who ran the city’s controversial protest response team claimed that he has never read the Department of Justice report that found many problems with how his team operated.

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.

Trial began seven months after the U.S. Department of Justice declared the Phoenix Police Department engaged in patterns of civil rights violations and excessive force.

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday.

The Phoenix Police Department has not had a permanent police chief since Jeri Williams retired in the summer of 2022.

Phoenix police fatally shot a suspect Friday morning near Cesar Chavez Park, officials announced.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration

Justice Department career officials were reassigned to advance Donald Trump's immigration agenda, an official familiar with the matter told USA TODAY.

Many of President Donald Trump's executive orders and administration policies will directly affect on Arizonans' lives. Here's a rundown of Week 1.