​Week of September 6

DOJ requests 70 items related to policies and procedures, training, supervision, organizational structure and leadership, behavioral health response, response to those experiencing homelessness and data/technology systems.

Week of September 13

DOJ and City/PD leaders meet to discuss protocols on how to deliver the information requested as well as discussing retention schedules and the litigation hold.

PPD Liaison Team attends patrol briefings to outline the purpose and objectives of DOJ liaison team and fields questions about the investigation.

Week of September 20

DOJ begins scheduling virtual site visits and virtual interviews, set to begin next week.

Staff fulfills first request for documents.

Week of September 27

DOJ virtual interviews with city employees begin.​

Staff evaluates needs for software to streamline document sharing process with DOJ.

​Week of October 4

PPD staff holds community meeting to raise awareness about the DOJ investigation and answer questions.

PPD Liaison Team attends additional patrol and specialty briefings to update staff on the investigation and answer questions. 

Week of October 11

PPD Liaison Team meets with the police department’s American Indian Advisory Board to provide information and answer questions about investigation. 

Week of October 18

​Week of November 1

PPD Liaison Team and city staff meet with residents from community and neighborhood groups to discuss and answer questions about the investigation.

City meets with DOJ investigators for a debrief and status update on the investigation.​

Week of November 8

City staff and DOJ discussed status of document requests and city systems.​​​

Week of November 15

 

City Staff completed the response to the September 9 request for documents from the Department of Justice by sharing over 53,000 documents.

 

Staff continues evaluation of software to streamline document sharing process with DOJ.

Week of November 29

DOJ attends virtual meeting with community stakeholders in the Desert Horizon Precinct.​

City staff are evaluating firms to provide outside legal counsel specific to DOJ investigation.

Members of the PPD Liaison Team meet with the Crisis Community Collaborative, answering questions regarding the DOJ Investigation.

City meets with staff from Minneapolis on the status of their DOJ investigation.

City conducts interviews with several law firms who submitted offers for outside counsel in the DOJ investigation.

Staff attends workshops and discussions surrounding those experiencing homelessness and constitutional policing under consent decrees with other entities

Staff attends a demonstration of the e-discovery tool to process documents for DOJ production.​​

​Week of December 6 & 13

City staff continue to meet to discuss logistics for providing access to  PPD systems to DOJ Investigators.   

​​Week of December 20 & 27

City staff provided the DOJ a virtual demonstration of the PPD's records management system.

City staff continue to meet to discuss logistics for providing access to PPD systems to DOJ Investigators.    

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​Week of January 3

City s​taff attends training for new e-discovery system to process documents for DOJ production. 

City staff meets with DOJ to discuss next steps in the investigation. 

​Staff continues evaluation of software systems for document sharing and demonstrations of systems with DOJ.​

Week of January 10

City Staff continue to train on ​City’s new e-discovery system to process documents for DOJ production.

City staff have four meetings with DOJ to demonstrate several City systems, and a meeting to discuss an agreement for access to City systems.

PPD Liaison Team to DOJ gives presentation to a north central business group. ​

Week of January 17

 

Staff meets with contracted outside counsel team.

 

Staff continues to discuss permissions access and the sharing of data systems with the DOJ.

 

PPD Liaison Team gives virtual presentation to City Council District 3’s Community Meeting.​

Week of January 31^st

 

DOJ participates in virtual tour of the Phoenix Police Department, focusing on policy development and training, including interviews and observation of recruit training classes. ​

Members of the PPD Liaison Team briefed Academy recruit class regarding DOJ classroom observation.

City staff and DOJ investigators debrief and plan for further virtual interviews and classroom observation.​

​Week of February 7​

C​ity staff presented information about the DOJ investigation at a Phoenix Community Alliance committee meeting.    

DOJ Investigators observe the Interactive Survival Training block of instruction for ​​​Academy Class #552     

Week of February 14

​DOJ continues virtual tour with further interviews and observation of recruit training class. ​

City receives second request for documents and information from DOJ including 133 items related to data systems, use of force/response to resistance, misconduct/discipline, homelessness and the Ballard Spahr investigations into the challenge coin and October 17 protest charges.

Week of February 21^st  

City Staff continue interviews with PPD and DOJ Investigators  

City staff meet with DOJ Investigators to discuss data and systems sharing. 

DOJ Investigators continue to virtually observe the PPD Recruit Academy class trainings.  
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City Staff and DOJ continue to discuss production of documents and sharing access to City data systems. 

DOJ Investigators virtually observe a recruit class on traffic stops​

​Week of March 7th

City staff prepare material to fulfill DOJ document request.​

City staff meet with DOJ to discuss first on-site visit.

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Week of March 14th​

City staff attends Phoenix Police Asian American Advisory Board meeting to present information about DOJ investigation.

(see Community Briefings PowerPoint Presentation under Resources on main DOJ page)

 

City staff continues to coordinate two proposed upcoming in person site visits by DOJ investigators and respond to document production requests.  

Week of March 21st

City staff continues to coordinate two upcoming in person site visits by DOJ investigators.

 

City staff responds to DOJ’s document production requests.  

Week of March 28th

 

DOJ team visits a number of police precincts over a two-day period and conducts ride-a-longs in each of those precincts, as well as demonstrations and review of police technology and systems.

 

City staff continues to respond to DOJ’s request for documents and databases.

 

City staff attend two-day conference regarding consent decrees.

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​Week of April​ 4th

City staff discuss DOJ investigative findings in other jurisdictions.

 

City staff continues to make arrangements for the second in-person site visit by DOJ investigators and respond to systems and document requests.

Week of April 11

DOJ conducts virtual interview and receives a virtual homelessness program presentation from city staff

City staff  meet with DOJ investigators to plan for in-person visit and discuss sharing access to City data systems

 

City posts recruitment for an Assistant Chief candidate with DOJ knowledge and experience

Week of April 18

 

DOJ conducts virtual interviews with employees from Law and Police Departments.

 

City staff have a meeting with DOJ to discuss confidentiality and user agreements for access to City systems.

Week of April 25

 

DOJ investigator team conducts second site visit. The team reviewed city services and response to people experiencing homelessness, First Amendment and protest practices, toured the Police Academy and observed classes, and conducted ride-a-longs with various squads and city departments.

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​Week of May 2nd

DOJ Investigators observe off-duty safety instruction for recruit class.

City staff and DOJ exchange emails to begin planning for the third in-person site visit and additional virtual interviews.

 

City staff respond to additional document requests from the site visits, and meet to debrief and plan.

Week of May 9

 

DOJ and city staff conduct several meetings to discuss further interviews for investigation and document production.

 

DOJ virtually observes recruit class instruction on crowd control formation and tactics.

 

City staff continue to debrief last visit, plan for the next DOJ in-person visit and review further documents for production.