WASHINGTON -- Five months after the Justice Department dismissed Biden-era findings that Phoenix police routinely used excessive force, officer-involved shootings have increased sharply.

That’s an annual pace of 26 police shootings -- almost double the number in the 12 months after the DOJ issued a scathing report on the Phoenix Police Department in June 2024. Copy article link

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