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Phoenix gets first female police chief (VIDEO)

Jeri Williams said one of her main goals as police chief is to shatter negative perceptions surrounding local law enforcement.

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US Marshals arrest 195 fugitives in Summer Burn operation

U.S. Marshals netted 195 fugitives in an operation termed Summer Burn aimed at nabbing violent career criminals in Arizona early Saturday morning.

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Phoenix officer, citizen shot while attempting to apprehend robbery suspect (VIDEO)

Three suspects have been arrested as authorities search for a fourth suspect following a robbery Tuesday afternoon which ended with a Phoenix police officer and a citizen attempting to help him subdue a suspect both being shot.

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Man who dressed nephew like ‘terrorist’ and paraded him around with fake rocket launcher convicted of child endangerment (PHOTOS + VIDEO)

An independent Arizona filmmaker was convicted on child endangerment charges Monday after he wrapped his nephew in a sheet, handed him a fake grenade launcher and had him walk through the streets of Phoenix.

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Hundreds of Ariz. Police Officers Attend Kindergarten Graduation of Girl Whose Father was Killed in the Line of Duty (VIDEO)

In a bittersweet ceremony hundreds of Arizona police officers showed their support for a 5-year-old girl whose father could not attend after being killed in the line of duty over the weekend. A sea of blue filled the back and the side of the standing room only ceremony.

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Arizona Police Push to Destroy Guns Before New Law Takes Effect

The Phoenix Police Department received a record-breaking number of firearms in its latest gun buyback. Now the department is rushing to destroy as many of the firearms as possible before the new law goes in effect which will require the firearms to be resold rather than destroyed.

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