In the first two months of 2025, four people were killed by Phoenix police — three of whom were shot and one of whom suffered a heart attack after being hit in the chest with a less-lethal weapon. But in the nearly six months that followed, only two such killings have occurred, a significant dropoff from previous years.

Last year, Phoenix police officers shot and killed 14 people , surpassing the death toll of 12 in 2023 and 10 in 2022. That increase came while the Department of Justice wrapped up a three-year investigation of Phoenix cops by publishing a blistering report in June 2024. The report found that Phoenix police regularly committed civil rights violations, including discriminating against people of color, using excessive and unnecessarily deadly force and arresting unhoused

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