A Timeline of the Phoenix Police Department's Worst Misconduct Scandals

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A Timeline of the Phoenix Police Department's Worst Misconduct Scandals

Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams is doing damage control after hundreds of questionable Facebook posts from Phoenix police officers surfaced last week.

The 282 posts from 97 current and former Phoenix cops showed officers frequently referred to black people as "thugs,"called for violence against protesters, denounced Muslims as rapists, and joked about refusing to help citizens who criticized the police.

On Wednesday, a Phoenix New Timesinvestigation found four of the officers whose posts were included in the database had also been accused of killing people. While the head of the Phoenix police union dismissed the criticism as a "hunt for negative spin" that failed to mention officers' positive posts, it's far from the only scandal to hit Maricopa County's biggest police department in recent years. Here's a rundown of some of Phoenix PD's worst misconduct:

• Richard Chrisman, a nine-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, shot and killed 28-year-old Danny Rodriguez and Rodriguez's dog for no good reason in 2007.
• March 2010: Homicide detective David Barnes fired after being indicted for perjury.
• June 2010: Phoenix police officer James Wren charged for shaking down drug dealers.
• November 2010: Twenty-five officers investigated for fraud. (Four Phoenix cops were later indicted for theft.)
• March 2011: A detective who had worked for the department for 12 years stole thousands of Oxycontin pills.
• May 2011: Phoenix police officer Patrick Larrison caught on camera body slamming a 15-year-old girl into a wall.
• August 2011: Former Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's son, Phoenix police officer Jeff Gordon, received a four-day suspension for having oral sex while on duty.
• 2012: Phoenix detective Chris Wilson sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting teenage boys.
• January 2013: Phoenix police arrest about 10 people a day for marijuana possession, a felony in Arizona, and a scandalous waste of police time and manpower.
• August 2013: Phoenix police lieutenant Dalin Webb admits to choking his son.
• 2014: Phoenix cop Jeremy Sweet arrested for pulling a gun on people during a road-rage incident.
• June 2015: Phoenix cop Timothy Morris arrested on kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
• July 2015: Ex-Phoenix cop Justin LaClere pleads guilty to sexually exploiting a minor.
• September 13, 2016: Phoenix cops forced a 19-year-old to eat weed, leading to a $100,000 lawsuit.
• June 2017: Phoenix settles lawsuit with family of unarmed black man killed by Phoenix police for $1.5 million.
• 2018: Phoenix police shot a record number of people last year — more people than the NYPD or the LAPD, the two biggest police forces in the country. The high number itself may not constitute misconduct, but reasons for the deadly trend remain unknown in spite of a later study.

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