“Even when a community member alleges that a PhxPD officer acted with overt bias, PhxPD’s internal accountability system does not adequately investigate the complaint. Often, the agency misclassifies allegations of discriminatory policing as something less serious,” the DOJ wrote in it’s report. Federal investigators added, “When it does classify complaints as alleging discriminatory policing, PhxPD seldom takes them seriously.” In this section of the DOJ report, it cites two cases exposed by ABC15: A Black journalist who was handcuffed, detained, and illegally searched; and an assistant chief accused of using a racial slur.
