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For well over a year, top officials in Tempe have battled residents feeding the homeless in city parks. But in a remarkable new whistleblower report, one of the city’s top cops alleged that the force’s chief was helping them out — in violation of Arizona law.
On Wednesday, a lawyer for Tempe police Commander Rashidi Johnson sent a letter to the Arizona Department of Public Safety alleging that Tempe Police Chief Kenneth McCoy consistently and improperly provided top Tempe officials with information from the Arizona Criminal Justice Information System (ACJIS), which is intended to be used only by law enforcement officers…