And Jack Harris isn't even a "Chief of Police." He is a civilian, with a gun that was hired back as our "Public Safety Manager" for Phoenix, at a rate of over $5,000 per week!

This site is set up to expose all of the madness, mendacity and internal corruption within the 4th Floor Phoenix, Arizona Police Department.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

This is The House That Jack Built. It is a house of cards that is full of cover-ups and corruption. Jack does not investigate his own band of nasty cops and covers up all their dirty deeds and misgivings.

In a letter from P.L.E.A. addressed to the MAC committee dated, June 7, 2006, RC “Jake” Jacobensen met with Chief Jack Harris and then Deputy City Manager Juan Martin over concerns that the Phoenix Police fails to investigate management misconduct.  

Chair Mark Spencer provided Chief Harris with examples of this failure through written documentation. His response was alarming, “ I’m not going to allow PLEA and citizens to say when and how investigations are done.” He also stated, “Based upon what you’ve shown here, the issue of disparate treatment is over.” Sadly, his disregard of citizens and employees in the investigatory process contradicts his priorities.”

The letter goes onto to state:

” Based upon Chief Harris’ statements and failure to address the Association’s concerns, The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association has no confidence in the Police Department’s ability to consistently hold managers accountable for misconduct through administrative investigations.”

For a complete copy of this letter, email us at badphoenixcops@gmail.com

Jack Harris – isn’t even our Police Chief!  He is a civilian just like anyone else in Phoenix, that was hired back by Mayor Phil Gordon to be a Public Safety Manager.

Many older cops in Phoenix are on a program called DROP – it is a Deferred Retirement Plan.   It is a plan that accelerates one’s pension, but the deal is once on it, you must retire in 5 years.  You retire very rich!

The 5 year mark came and went for Jack.  Since he technically had to retire, our lazy, inept mayor Phil Gordon hired him back as a civilian, but kept his peace officer accreditation.  Jack Harris earns over $4000 per week (yeah that’s no typo - $4000 per week!!!) for this boondoggle!   He has no incentive to leave and Phil Gordon is too incompetent to hire someone new.  Since no one is qualified to fill in from the lower ranks, they would need to go outside of Phoenix and Arizona to search for a new chief.

That requires work, time and effort – none of which Frank Fairbanks or Phil Gordon are willing to give.  Also an outside chief would uncover all the corruption, ineptitude and crimes with the Phoenix Police Department exposing Phil Gordon and Frank Fairbanks for their abuse of discretion.  This is why the only solution is a Consent Decree and/or the DOJ coming in and running the Phoenix PD, firing all Asst. Chiefs and Commanders and starting over.