The DOJ released a scathing reportfinding police in Phoenix violated homeless people's constitutional rights.
, the DOJ found the Phoenix Police Department engaged in a “pattern or practice” that violated some people’s rights in: officers oftentimes detained people without reasonable suspicion, and officers would seize their property without giving them enough notice. The report is a first-of-its-kind finding for a U.S. city as the DOJ has never made a conclusion like this about a police force.
The report states the police force engages in “dangerous tactics that lead to force that is unnecessary and unreasonable.” “You guys are trash, and this is trash,” one police officer told a homeless person during a cleanup, according to the report.Thirty-seven percent of all arrests in Phoenix between 2016 and 2022 were of homeless people, according to the report. The report detailed one homeless man who was cited by Phoenix police 20 times during a three-year span for sleeping outside.
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