PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020.
However, sources tell ABC15 all three officers who violated policy are now retired and can’t be disciplined.
One of the key officials involved in the gang charges was Sgt. Doug McBride, who was the officer who misled a grand jury to secure the indictment, records show.
McBride retired in December 2025 before the internal investigation was completed, and he now collects a $98,000 annual pension.
The cruelty is the point.
The false arrests are literally the job.
“Gang member” as a designation is merely a legalized end run around free association. Might as well just charge people for being Black / Latino / East Asian / Gay as criminalize a popular local fashion.
Guess we’ll just have to discipline them ourselves.
Incoming (tax-payer funded) liability in 3… 2… 1… !
They should cancel the pensions of these corrupt assholes and distribute that money to their victims instead.
if the authorities won’t make this right, I guess people are just expected to do it themselves
Says they can’t do anything since they retired, but they still receive a pension. Can’t touch that because cops are the only people that have strong unions in this country.
Officers who falsify charges should be in jail, but in the U.S. wearing a badge gives criminals almost complete immunity to the law.
