Investigating Phoenix’s special settlement agreement with a top cop

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As part of a special arrangement, the City of Phoenix agreed to change the findings in a discrimination investigative report, close active internal investigations and not conduct any future probes into the police department’s former second-in-command. The city’s “negotiated settlement agreement” with former Executive Assistant Chief Michael Kurtenbach was signed by multiple high-ranking officials, including Chief Michael Sullivan. In return, Kurtenbach agreed to retire and not take legal action against the city.
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@Sarge395 5 месяцев назад

I'm shocked that the police would lie and cover up horrible statements and actions within their department. Shocked I tell you, shocked.

@Danny-yw5jx 5 месяцев назад

0_o?! Seriously? Even though it's been a normalized stereotype for them-a merited suspicion-for well over a few decades now?

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

Pretty sure that's sarcasm @@Danny-yw5jx

@Danny-yw5jx 5 месяцев назад

@@USGovIsDistributingCSAM I figured as much, I was adding my own because it was funny! xD I mean c'mon, you gotta be living either under a rock or in a deep hole your entire life not to notice any of that in the first place. But yea, it was all just an exchange of satire!

@jeffreypierson2064 5 месяцев назад

Say it again, Louis...

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

@@Danny-yw5jx my name speaks the truth and so does my media

@michaelccopelandsr7120 5 месяцев назад

Start taking settlements out of the police union pension fund

@shenmisheshou7002 5 месяцев назад

That won't happen. It is almost impossible to sue any kind of pension fund.

@ArunSudama-ur2cd 5 месяцев назад

I’d go further and suggest 10% come directly from the officer pay or pension.

@saltriverpirate3172 5 месяцев назад

Can't take it from the general fund, but you can garnish an individual pension. Cops have 'acquired immunity' because we know they are unintelligent and too poorly educated to know the laws they enforce at gunpoint. It is possible to remove that acquired immunity by educating the police, (on video because they lie and are stupid.) If it can be shown, in court, that the officer knowingly violated the law after being educated, they can loose their acquired immunity and be subject to leans on their wages, pensions and even homes for judgements against them. It ABSOLUTELY could be taken from police dept. budgets (currently being spent on ridiculous militarization, body armor, cameras that turn off when convenient, etc.)

@shenmisheshou7002 5 месяцев назад

@@ArunSudama-ur2cd Won't happen. The cops virtually never pay settlements, and the state laws will likely never change to make them. This is not a federal issue, it is states rights, so each state would half to make it law, and even in the blue states that is unlikely to happen.

@rustycarter8969 5 месяцев назад

You can attach any pension if you get divorced your spouse gets half your pension.

@chiefmacarthur 5 месяцев назад

That Settlement Agreement demonstrates the fact that every signatory lacks Integrity, Ethics, Scruples, Honor, Honesty, and Respect for the law! What did Michael Kurtenbach have over all the other signatories on that agreement that he could get them to submit to his quid pro quo? Every last signatory should be fired for allowing themselves to be manipulated. If they did it once, they will surely do it again! The system and the voters need to wake up!

@ricladouceur6202 5 месяцев назад

The police can't even police themselves! How can they be trusted to be fair with the community! How many millions did he get!

@rarefruit2320 5 месяцев назад

No one in the history of the world has ever been able to successfully police themselves. Americans are dumb for thinking it’s possible 😂

@saltriverpirate3172 5 месяцев назад

To be fair, no one can 'police themself'. That lie is at least as old as 'trickle-down economics' and the police, the Pentagon and the SCOTUS all need to be audited by outside agencies and criminal behavior currently being protected by corrupt officials should carry 2x penalty for anyone who takes an oath to serve the people and the Constitution. That oath means public trust and violating the public trust makes a rapist cop at least 2x worse than anyone without a badge conferring acquired immunity.

@lynnf7542 5 месяцев назад

They should never be allowed to police themselves.. always need independent outside Investigation!!!

@11C1P 5 месяцев назад

They shouldn't be allowed to police ANYONE, let alone themselves.

@Leatherneck-pw3bn 4 месяца назад

Since they police for profit they is no incentive to do the right thing.

@jaymeez 5 месяцев назад

Now this is journalism. It’s so good to see it still exists. Keep It Up!!

@michaelccopelandsr7120 5 месяцев назад

To ALL "peace officers:" You want your respect back? THEN EARN OUR TRUST BACK! It's BS like this that proves why NONE OF YOU DESERVE ANYTHING! To be clear, this is a challenge to all to all "good" cops to help CHANGE THE WHOLE CORRUPT SYSTEM!

@oovii808 5 месяцев назад

its too far gone to be recovered. This has to be destroyed, and replaced with better. It unfortunately won't happen.

@jorgedelgado5881 5 месяцев назад

There are no good cops. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any bad cops.

@stevenhiggins3331 4 месяца назад

But there are no good ones the I look the other way kind of cops are still bad cops

@user-tucsonsw 4 месяца назад

@@oovii808 I understand what you are saying, but there is no such thing as a "good" cop. Only one who hasn't be caught yet.

@Exploitiv 5 месяцев назад

They need to take him out of retirement and into a jail cell. He broke the law, who gives a $hit about policy. Department policies aren’t always legal or constitutional.

@Sondan1988 5 месяцев назад

How the Phoenix Police department INVESTIGATES ITSELF ? Say it isn't so !! --- How many of these stories do we have to see before the Public wakes up and stops trusting law enforcement ? In my state of Kansas, we just had a judge force the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay over $2 Millions for violating civil rights. This isn't a few bad apples like I hear so many people say....this is hundreds of officers. To go even further, how many officers are on the Brady list in just Arizona alone ? ABC 15 says there are over 1,800....that is NOT a few bad apples.

@juandoe2994 5 месяцев назад

The profession is rotten to the core.

@jdsstegman 5 месяцев назад

And there is the problem. They changed the findings so that this officer can now apply at another department and they will never know. They did it to save his future employment elsewhere. So wrong.

@ronwade2206 5 месяцев назад

PPD deserves every second of the DOJ supervision

@adamherrold9730 5 месяцев назад

That'll cost you 300 million

@nitajean9885 5 месяцев назад

except that now WE have to pay police to police the police because the police plainly can't police properly.

@Justinlearns 5 месяцев назад

Plot twist. This allows local, state and now federal law enforcement to patrol the streets. They just want an excuse to hire more feds aka U.S. Capitol Police. Why hasn't the entire department been suspended PENDING the DOJ investigation? All policing needs to be done by the sheriff's department and nobody else.

@donaldleggett 5 месяцев назад

It's not working.

@Rhaspun 5 месяцев назад

It looks like Phoenix PD should be placed under control of the federal government like how it was done with Oakland, CA.

@TBagr 5 месяцев назад

This is the exact same thing that EVERY department does when an officer is under investigation. “Go away and the charges go away or if you stay and fight, we will punish you”.

@HawksDiesel 5 месяцев назад

Abolish qualified immunity

@KingLemonGrab 5 месяцев назад

It’s the sheriffs and the police department out there how shameful and disgusting these are the people driving around meant to “protect and serve” knowing full well they only protect themselves

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

Somebody with the Department of Defense is hacking me

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

My comments live with Ghosts 👻

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

Maybe that's just the illegal censorship screening process they do to me violating my first amendment just like they violated a bunch of others

@jameswest9261 5 месяцев назад

Courts have ruled that it is not their job to "Protect and Serve" you. That only applies to fellow officers. No badge, no gun, you are the enemy.

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

@@jameswest9261 I guess that's why I'm constantly stuck reporting there disgusting things

@marshalllapenta7656 5 месяцев назад

Phoenix has had a history of police problems as well as city council problems....

@jaymanright 5 месяцев назад

As citizens we need to start telling the judges. As a community we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing. See how that crap flies. 2nd in charge and gets to retire and go onto a different department with retirement pay. This will continue to happen until we the people put a stop to the 2 tear justice system

@potatokira 5 месяцев назад

Telling judges what ? Cops, lawyers and judges all work together for their city......

@emjay2045 5 месяцев назад

Police gonna shut this “news station” down

@anaashb9838 5 месяцев назад

Nice "run out the clock," move, seen it, lived it.

@Erintz1969 5 месяцев назад

Qualified immunity needs to be abolished so that police and other government officials covered by it can be held responsible for their actions.

@nuzjunkie1 5 месяцев назад

Kurtenbach got off the hook.

@davidgonzales6105 5 месяцев назад

They have done this many many times your just scratching the surface

@kreilly421 5 месяцев назад

I love the work y'all do! Keep fighting the good fight and I'll keep watching.

@jayden5219 5 месяцев назад

Phoenix is the gift that keeps on giving.

@jackielinde7568 5 месяцев назад

As a Phoenix Resident, I want a police department that I can be proud of. Phoenix Police Department is not it. It's clear that they're doing everything they can to be the worst department out there. Guys, it's not a race to the bottom, and the bottom isn't where you want to be.

@PacoSmith 5 месяцев назад

Great investigative reporting, 👍🏿

@jameswest9261 5 месяцев назад

Thin Blue Line Gang, largest organized criminal gang in the country. Gang members ALWAYS protect fellow gang members. They make sure that fellow gang members get that full retirement benefit package and check. Remember it isn't real money, it is only taxpayer money.

@USGovIsDistributingCSAM 5 месяцев назад

I'm not disagreeing because they almost killed me for blowing the whistle about their corruption. , of their own blew the same whistle. So I hear your point, but there has to be someone with a conscience at some point.

@e.t.calledme 5 месяцев назад

Actually, the national teacher's union is much bigger and much, much more influential, more sinister .... twue thang 😎

@15thobserver 5 месяцев назад

"its complicated" "Its messy" No, that was pretty straight forward. He got a deal and got away with it. Where's the complication?

@RichardMoore-gr1vz 5 месяцев назад

Law Enforcement is sad. This makes all officials look bad.

@John-tx1wk 5 месяцев назад

You have to wonder what a Phoenix city employee thinks when they answer their phone and hear "Hi, this is Dave Biscobing, do you have time to answer a few questions?".

@ClarityDetermination 5 месяцев назад

We need access to the Brady list.

@Bri_g3 5 месяцев назад

Shock horror

@NicholasDonskyDonsky 4 месяца назад

The Phoenix PD is the Mafia's southwest branch!😂

@KeithPage 5 месяцев назад

It's not complicated it's a corrupt police department.

@ogopogo1916 5 месяцев назад

So much talent from the band , the cameras, the editing.

@jeffschroeder4805 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for continuing to investigate when the police investigators we hire to investigate are reluctant to do so. Police departments consistently seem to work harder to protect themselves than the public. Much more transparency and community oversight is essential to prevent our protectors from becoming oppressors. Expecting police to oversee themselves has been a joke, they behave more like a gang than an organization for protecting the public. Police unions have become an insurmountable obstruction to reform. Police contracts that impede investigation and discipline of police officers have to be renegotiated.

@Beaver108 5 месяцев назад

Solid Reporting....

@casparcoaster1936 5 месяцев назад

when you have liars and thieves running police depts, men and women without ethics, you know how cheap citizen life is in their jurisdiction

@RaptorPilot700 5 месяцев назад

Keep up the excellent investigative reporting!

@MikeJones-wc4qj 5 месяцев назад

Seems like you could waste our time w Jenny Diponzio?? What happened to that "special" investigation? Rediculous crap😅😅

@michaelgriggie8817 5 месяцев назад

I like Dave's reporting and investigating, we need him in Texas

@dwsmyyth3480 5 месяцев назад

Suing would require discovery. He won't sue

@jakeford7688 5 месяцев назад

Add PLEA to the lawsuit

@gilmoremccoy6930 5 месяцев назад

Great reporting. Shame on racist Phoenix PD . Keep digging.

@tomd7995 5 месяцев назад

we investigate ourselves and we find we do nothing wrong

@otetechie 5 месяцев назад

Whenever the topic of police comes up, people always say “it’s just a case of a few bad apples.” The expression is not “a few bad apples are really annoying” or “one bad apple makes the others look bad.” It’s “one bad apple SPOILS the bunch.” That’s why farmers get rid of bad apples. They don’t defend bad apples. They don’t give bad apples promotions. They don’t let bad apples take early retirement with full pensions. They throw them out to protect the good ones. If police departments want the respect of the public, they have to earn it by showing us they actually care about their product. Until then, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume the whole barrel is spoiled, and the farmer doesn’t care.

@saltyolbroad2962 5 месяцев назад

Good for youse guy! Great reporting!

@hughjaynus4374 5 месяцев назад

PPD, never hear anything good about this dept.

@KM-zu9we 5 месяцев назад

So basically, they will get picked up by other departments.

@victorjohnson4971 5 месяцев назад

Dave Biscobing needs his own show

@TheSuperman7422 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for doing such a great job to investigate the police department please keep up the good work and keep us informed we the people do appreciate your work

@drewb5738 5 месяцев назад

Exposing corruption. Keep it up, ABC15.

@MikeJones-wc4qj 5 месяцев назад

How Funny Biscobing is playing DOJ guy!! He also will report his "findings"😂😂😂😂

@fashiondiva6972 5 месяцев назад

Found the whining cop🙄⬆️

@darronshirley7886 4 месяца назад

And absolutely nothing is ever going to happen to stop this or even change anything

@kekojones318 5 месяцев назад

So who are the criminals and cartel members on this?

@jackjdolan 5 месяцев назад

Way to go Dave and ABC15. Nothing surprises me with the Phoenix P.D. Sounds like things are so bad ABC15 had to add another investigator. Get em Melissa !

@al1383 4 месяца назад

If only law enforcement worked as hard protecting The People as they do protecting each other

@AliValentine143 4 месяца назад

Good job ABC15, tell the truth, tell the people the whole truth 👏 Back to REAL journalism.

@romewashere 4 месяца назад

I’m from Buffalo Ny and I know for a fact that Dave Biscobing is the man when it comes to investigating. You don’t want this man on your ass.

@terrylemons186 4 месяца назад

Dave I love you because you're a real journalist, Keep up the good My friend

@adamelam6385 5 месяцев назад

Dave is on their ass

@MikeJones-wc4qj 5 месяцев назад

Biscobing be reasonable. Go to a Daycare center and investigate Children. They make more sense than Phoenix City Employees.

@andyfletcher3561 4 месяца назад

It's not at all ''complicated''...It's simply corrupt...

@triggermike41 4 месяца назад

Corruption at the highest level of this dept.

@OttoByOgraffey 4 месяца назад

This station better be paying Dave what he's worth.

@christopherskipp1525 4 месяца назад

Obviously, anyone party to this severance agreement is lying. Keep investigating.

@JamesStover-gr3hw 7 дней назад

I highly doubt Phoenix is the only city of this crime

@stevem20121 4 месяца назад

It should be illegal for police departments to investigate themselves ! Citizens should be afforded the same !

@toddbatstra645 4 месяца назад

Higher standard 😢 Integrity 😢

@linwoodthomas1041 5 месяцев назад

Of course they change findings when ultimately left in their hands.

@nancyenkelmann4552 5 месяцев назад

Such a corrupt department. They need to clean house.

@kurtmitterling5930 5 месяцев назад

Also as of April 4th 2022 the United States Supreme Court ruled on Thompson v. Clark, and that ruling states it is now easier to Sue Law Enforcement for malicious prosecution being that law enforcement in the last 10 years has caused the American taxpayer over $3.5 Billion dollars in lawsuit settlements.

@TheTravAbides 5 месяцев назад

I find it ironic and hypocritical that you guys, Dave especially, demand transparency and freedom of speech and then limits replies on his social media. Lost a lot of respect when I was told of that.

@user-eh5cr4or6k 5 месяцев назад

You have no idea how bad this platform sensors speech of all kinds. I doubt very seriously that this channel is doing any censoring themselves they may delete comments to avoid getting in trouble with the platform provider

@MikeJones-wc4qj 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely

@terrivangundy 5 месяцев назад

Of course

@tomd7995 5 месяцев назад

rules for thee

@Nemo-ff9he 5 месяцев назад

The cops are the good guys, right?

@ksemery 5 месяцев назад

Why is anyone surprised?!

@larrydricerice6637 5 месяцев назад

Why does the city agree to such crap

@kurtmitterling5930 5 месяцев назад

Well being that a couple years ago the Phoenix PD went through about 3 years of an investigation by the Department of Justice for just this thing so yeah I think this is an ongoing problem.

@abdousouici2185 4 месяца назад

I hope the lawsuit will be a scandal exposing tirany .

@BananaTrades 5 месяцев назад

shameful coverup and zero accountability! how can its citizens trust them!

@irayz2677 5 месяцев назад

It’s not hard to understand They investigate themselves

@alanmorneau7622 Месяц назад

No pure corruption

@4catsnow 5 месяцев назад

Self-inflicted wound.. but this department now has just a little less credibility than bernie madoff...

@ronstewart4545 4 месяца назад

DOJ will move down there when they’re done with Albuquerque PD.

@CurtisSandoval712 5 месяцев назад

Where does he work now?!

@OttoByOgraffey 5 месяцев назад

Dave Biscobing for President!

@rodneybrown5752 4 месяца назад

They care less about one another.And this is why the public are in danger

@rollingsteady3107 4 месяца назад

Is anyone surprised?

@951NewNow 4 месяца назад

Phoenix PD has always been dirty!

@roberteisenman4173 5 месяцев назад

Phoenix Police Chief says 99% of his department are good cops? That means he knows who the 30 bad ones are and allows them to stay on the force 😢

@DedmanReactin 5 месяцев назад

Anywhere else youd be fired for this crap.. an we have to pay this fool.. one hell of a union..

@AliValentine143 4 месяца назад

Arizona, again 🤦‍♂️ Thank you, Direct D, Pigs Under Pressure, Clash With Bao, and all the Modern Freedom Fighters that aren't appreciated enough but will be appreciated in history.

@scootermagee6680 4 месяца назад

Arizona and Florida - the 2 armpits of America with Texas in the middle as the “taint”.

@timothykeller4481 5 месяцев назад

In my 63 years why would anybody be surprised about the police she is servicing the chief and the chief is servicing her it is the American way it will never change what can you do for me and I will do it better to you

@timbartley5678 5 месяцев назад

You know done before cause they was not held accountable

@cletusaschoff7475 5 месяцев назад

So if murderer quit they can't be tried

@808ecobeast7 4 месяца назад

When an "entity" investigates itself, or course what side would they decide on??? Been there, done that...😢😢😢

@bernardhutchinson4753 5 месяцев назад

Yep, Phoenix Arizona Police Department is an atrocious cop shop & they have had many many complaints about cops & cover ups by top cops!

@GoToPhx 5 месяцев назад

My gut reaction to this is thinking he wants to be able to say he has a clean record when he goes somewhere else to be a police chief. Just like the current police chief in Prescott Valley has some ‘skeletons in the closet’ of poor leadership. It would be interesting to check back in a year to see where he is working. Thanks for hard work, revealing this behavior. so to speak.

@reallabigz4358 5 месяцев назад

Nothing new! This is how most police union are. Same for politicians.

@CliftonMoore-t7k 5 месяцев назад

I like to know why every time its an investigation on a Police Officer Criminal behavior and Possible Arrest, it takes Months of an investigation before a Police officer is Arrested, even when a video shows clearly wrong doing by Police, but with Citizens, they get Arrest on the Spot, without a through investigation, Citizens are automatically taken to jail just from an accusation. Police are not supposed to be above the law, they say, but they are absolutely ARE above the law by evidence.. Not only do they take forever to charge the Police even when you witness their crimes clearly, they take forever to investigate and still come up with there was no wrong doing by the police. Smdh. That's why more & more & more & more people are starting to Hate The Police System in this Country. And The Government their Superiors.