Top lawmaker asks Trump admin to scrap report cracking down on cops: 'Destructive and costly'

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is asking the Department of Justice to scrap a study that could pb to aggravated national oversight of the Phoenix Police Department.

In a missive to recently sworn-in Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, Petersen asked the DOJ to retract a study from the Biden medication astir civilian rights issues wrong the department. The study would fundamentally effort to get the metropolis of Phoenix to hold to precocious national engagement done the DOJ.

The June 2024 study said that the section and the metropolis "engage successful a signifier oregon signifier of behaviour that violates the U.S. Constitution and national law," including "excessive force" and discriminatory practices against minorities and stateless people.

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The Phoenix Police Department said it responded to the incident. (Phoenix Police Department)

"The DOJ’s study contained a big of biased and inaccurate findings against the City’s Police Department, putting Phoenix connected a way for a destructive and costly consent decree that would discourage our brave men and women successful bluish from reducing transgression and protecting guiltless Phoenicians. It would besides person a tremendous interaction connected the agency's quality to enlistee and clasp capable officers to work our communities report," Petersen wrote.

Petersen argued that if the police department went nether a consent decree with the DOJ, it would make akin challenges to what the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deals with present aft coming nether a consent decree successful 2015, which is expected to transcend a $310 cardinal terms tag successful the coming months, the Republican lawmaker argued.

"Former Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone, a Democrat, resigned from his presumption past year, successful ample part, owed to vexation from the consent decree hanging implicit his office. He said, ‘I’ll beryllium damned if I bash 3 presumption nether national tribunal oversight, for a indebtedness I ne'er incurred, and not beryllium capable to service this assemblage successful the mode that I could if you took the different manus from being tied down my back. Because the aboriginal without instrumentality enforcement doesn’t look good,’" helium said.

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Harmeet Dhillon greets President Trump aft helium arrives aboard Air Force One astatine Moffett Federal Airfield successful Mountain View, Calif. to be a Republican Party fundraiser astatine an undisclosed determination connected Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.  (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

He acknowledged that the section has pushed for reforms connected their terms, saying that determination should beryllium accountability for issues with "rogue constabulary agencies oregon officers," but noted that this is not the mode to spell astir it.

"In short, these consent decrees are thing much than backhanded attempts to hijack constabulary departments and bring them nether the power of the national government," helium added. "The consent decrees are unconstitutional and exploited by overreaching statesmanlike administrations."

Before being elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego utilized his authoritative House bureau to constitute to the Biden DOJ voicing absorption to a consent decree successful August.

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Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen speaks during a rally for vice statesmanlike nominee JD Vance astatine Arizona Christian University connected July 31, 2024. (Imagn)

"I powerfully impulse DOJ to see entering into a method assistance missive with the City of Phoenix alternatively than proceed to prosecute a consent decree," Gallego wrote. "While the DOJ raises respective valid points successful its findings report, some PPD and the City of Phoenix already invited reforms to beforehand the ngo to support Phoenix’s residents from transgression and safeguard their civilian rights."

While Biden was inactive successful office, galore progressives successful the authorities argued that determination should beryllium national accountability for the agency.

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"Phoenix PD needs national oversight," the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted successful October 2024 pursuing an incidental successful which officers allegedly severely mistreated a deaf, disabled Black man, Tyron McAlpin, who is present suing the metropolis and the offices involved. His charges were scrapped, and the officers received a 24-hour suspension, according to Fox 10 Phoenix. 

The DOJ did not respond successful clip to Fox News Digital for comment.