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. Read More
September/October 2021
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 police, and increased tension between law enforcement and the communities they serve. 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 course of that terrible day and the ensuing two decades. 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 of Employment (TCE). Read More
