Mesa: 3 years later, no word on Justice Department inquiries into Mesa Police Department
Joshua Bowling | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for MesaNewsAndTalk.Com Three years before the U.S. Department of Justice would open an investigation into the Phoenix Police Department, the feds launched a pair of probes into a fatal shooting and three use-of-force cases in the Mesa Police Department. There's no word on where those investigations stand. The probe in Phoenix — much like recent ones opened in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky — is focused on systemic issues, investigating a "pattern or practice of violations of the Constitution or federal law." The Mesa investigations were much more narrow, focused on specific officers and use-of-force cases, Arizona Police Association Executive…