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A Phoenix police officer who seemingly reformed after being disciplined and back on patrol is at risk of losing his job. Despite his pleas, the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board suspended his peace officer certification at its April 15 meeting, after a long and pained debate.
Timothy Clark, the officer, got in trouble twice with the department in 2023, the state’s assistant attorney general told the board. While off-duty, Clark went on a belligerent bender after a Diamondbacks game — harassing people, trying to fight a bar manager, biting a security guard, repeatedly bragging about being a cop. He was arrested for that fiasco. Later he sharing privileged, sensitive materials such as unredacted body camera footage with a dispatcher from the Fresno Police Department whom he’d met online…