Taking action to get answers - ABC15 is going one-on-one with Interim Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan on the recent officer-involved shootings within his department. MORE ⬇️
According to Phoenix Police, their officers have fired their guns during ten incidents so far this year, which outpaces where we were by mid-March in any other year since 2017, the first year the City of Phoenix kept a database on police shootings.
As Chief Sullivan promises reform, he sat down with ABC15 to give answers and his take on the number of officer-involved shootings. Chief Sullivan went on to say seven of the ten officer-involved shootings the City has seen so far this year involved suspects who had firearms that were not legally supposed to have guns. He points to these"prohibited possessors" as a major obstacle and says finding them and prosecuting them will take cooperation from his department, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, as well as officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Chief Sullivan says policing has always been dangerous, but with the recent number of officer-involved shootings, there are everyday people who worry things are getting more dangerous for them as well.
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