Nearly 50 new recruits starting training this month are putting a dent in the ongoing need for more Tucson police patrol officers. But there’s a disparity between how many officers the city and ...

Tucson police have sent more than 500 people struggling with opioid addiction to treatment rather than jail over the past year, thanks to a grant-funded county program.

In 2020, former Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer introduced a bill that would have required prospective police officers 18 to 25 years old to earn a bachelor’s degree before entering the police ...