Our previously published report, detailing the mass deception by the DOJ Civil Rights Division, was a shocking revelation of the weaponization of our government against local law enforcement and law and order. The analysis of the DOJ Investigation into the Phoenix Police Department by Dr. Travis Yates and Dr, JC Chaix was nothing short of a methodical dismantling of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigative credibility.
They cannot return from what they have done.
The DOJ’s original investigation, published in June 2024 after a 34-month inquiry, accused the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) of systematic civil rights violations. These included excessive force, discrimination, and unlawful suppression of free speech. But Yates and Chaix’s exhaustive counter-investigation, based on full access to body-worn camera footage, police reports, and departmental records, paints a radically different picture.
Their analysis concluded that:
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Many DOJ claims omitted key context, distorted timelines, and ignored bodycam evidence.
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Descriptions of incidents appeared deliberately misleading, reflecting advocacy rather than neutral legal analysis.
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Hindsight bias and misapplications of case law were rampant;
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97% of the allegations were misleading or false
The Silence: An Abdication of Duty
You read that right. 97% of the incidents detailed by the DOJ were misleading or false. While that should be the story, the real story is the silence that has followed.
We haven’t seen one politician in Phoenix mention it. Former Interim Chief and now U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan hasn’t mentioned it, and we certainly haven’t seen the media say anything.
Think about that.
The DOJ arrived in Phoenix, and the Phoenix Police Department participated in and assisted with their investigation. The city spent over 10 million dollars on an investigation against its own agency, and the final product was nothing short of a fictional novel that a freshman criminal justice student could have blown a hole through in an hour.
Nothing against Dr. Yates and Dr. Chaix, but anyone could watch the publicly available body cameras and see every lie.
But no one did.
If you didn’t hate the media enough, it’s time to start understanding who they are. The local media in Phoenix spent years beating up on the Phoenix Police Department based on the fraudulent summary report by the DOJ. In one of the most transparent actions we’ve ever seen from law enforcement, the Phoenix Police Department released every report and every video associated with the incidents listed by the DOJ.
And the media did nothing.
When Yates and Chaix revealed that 97% of the DOJ investigation was fake news, they remained silent.
We reached out to Dr. Yates and asked him about the silence. He told us the reason for the silence was simple.
“The media can’t report on it because they would reveal to the community what they are,” Yates said.
Yates told us that the media was the surrogate of the DOJ and spent years talking about the atrocities committed by the Phoenix Police Department, based on the fraudulent DOJ Report. There was never an attempt by the media to critically evaluate the findings because they wanted it to be true.
Indeed, based on the destructive nature of the safety of communities under DOJ control, it’s a frightening proposition that the media in Phoenix was aiding and abetting one of the most powerful entities in the country to mislead the public and defame the men and women of the Phoenix Police Department.
Yates described the hypocrisy, “If one Phoenix police officer lied in a report, the media would be all over it, but because it was the DOJ that mislead 97% of the time while soaking up 10 million dollars from the taxpayers, it’s not a story.”
Failed Leadership
The failure of the media is one thing, and it’s to be expected, but what about the leadership in Phoenix?
Yates praised Darrell Kriplean, President of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, for his courageous leadership during the investigation; however, that sentiment shifts when discussing the city’s leaders.
Yates said it took him and Dr. Chaix months of analysis to determine that the DOJ misled and lied in 97% of the report, but where have the leaders in Phoenix been? Yates said that the police chief and others would have known about the lies almost immediately, but they remained silent and said nothing.
“Honestly, I cannot comprehend that level of cowardice. To let the DOJ and the media trash the men and women of your organization, while you know all along that the DOJ report was fake. The council members deserved to know the truth, the community deserved to know the truth, and most importantly, the members of the Phoenix Police Department deserved to be defended,” Yates lamented.
Days after Dr. Yates and Dr. Chaix released their report, President Trump announced the end of the Phoenix Investigation and revoked other consent decrees due to the fraudulent investigations by the Biden DOJ; however, that isn’t enough for Yates.
“There needs to be accountability for the millions of dollars the DOJ has taken out of local city budgets and for the violence that has followed them into every community they defamed and took over,” Yates tells us.
“Without accountability, this will happen again…”
