Who Is Investigating?
On August 5, 2021, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a pattern-or-practice investigation into the Phoenix Police Department. As the news spread around the Valley, questions started coming into the PLEA Office about the... Read More
Finding Help and Hope to Prevent Police Suicide
There’s no doubt that these are uniquely challenging times for law enforcement officers. The past 18 months have brought the ongoing anxiety of a global pandemic, the upheaval of civil unrest, rising crime, demoralizing calls to defund or even abolish... Read More
Remembering the Heroes of 9/11
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, rocked our country to its core, forever transformed our national security landscape and caused more law enforcement line-of-duty deaths than any other single event in American history — close to 400 over the... Read More
Update: MOU Pension Benefits Lawsuit — Seven Years Later
Since July of 2014, PLEA has been in the litigation trenches with aims of securing many of your pensionable benefits that were unceremoniously and unilaterally stripped away from you with the City Council’s imposition of the 2012–2014 Terms and Conditions... Read More