Would You Support A Sheriff Like Joe Arpaio in Your Town?

[froggy]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Special Reports - Phoenix

For more than 15 years, Phoenix New Times has reported on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's serious abuse of power. The self-described "Toughest Sheriff in America" has fostered horrendous jail conditions, reckless police operations, and carried out personal vendettas against political rivals and members of the press. In the last year or more, he has also appointed himself enforcer of the nation's immigration laws in Arizona, and a whole new series of problems has emerged. Foremost, he and his deputies have violated the Constitutional rights of brown-skinned U.S. citizens and have committed outright cruelty against the undocumented. This year, the U.S. Justice Department has commenced an investigation of his actions.

Sound like a personal vendetta by the paper.

 

[ConHog]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Special Reports - Phoenix

For more than 15 years, Phoenix New Times has reported on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's serious abuse of power. The self-described "Toughest Sheriff in America" has fostered horrendous jail conditions, reckless police operations, and carried out personal vendettas against political rivals and members of the press. In the last year or more, he has also appointed himself enforcer of the nation's immigration laws in Arizona, and a whole new series of problems has emerged. Foremost, he and his deputies have violated the Constitutional rights of brown-skinned U.S. citizens and have committed outright cruelty against the undocumented. This year, the U.S. Justice Department has commenced an investigation of his actions.

Got an answer to my two questions? I would also be interested on your thoughts on innocent UNLESS proven guilty. Seems you've found this man guilty before he's even been charged with anything.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIB-IDY2aY]YouTube - MCSA and ACORN Activists Arrested for Applauding[/ame]

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Pretty sure this amounts to a violation of human rights by someone.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSOKgLrlAeg]YouTube - Aryan Brother Slays Inmate In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jail[/ame]

 

[SFC Ollie]

And yet, how many times has Sheriff Joe been re-elected now?

My guess is the people like what he's doing.

 

[ConHog]

Pretty sure this amounts to a violation of human rights by someone.

YouTube - Aryan Brother Slays Inmate In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jail

A) That video is horrible, I couldn't even understand what was going on
B) You rank right below Bert and Blu when it comes to the last people in this world I would believe when it comes to claims of police brutality.

 

[fyrenza]

Yes.

 

[Againsheila]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona), who created the 'Tent City Jail,' has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails, took away their weights, and cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up cable TV again and only let in The Disney Channel and The Weather Channel..

He cut out coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them, 'This isn't the Ritz-Carlton . . if you don't like it, don't come back.'


With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees, a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS.
'It feels like we are in a furnace,' said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for 1 year. 'It's inhumane.'

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!

Sounds good to me...however I would make sure that lots of cool water and ice is available.

 

[ConHog]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona), who created the 'Tent City Jail,' has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails, took away their weights, and cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up cable TV again and only let in The Disney Channel and The Weather Channel..

He cut out coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them, 'This isn't the Ritz-Carlton . . if you don't like it, don't come back.'


With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees, a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS.
'It feels like we are in a furnace,' said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for 1 year. 'It's inhumane.'

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!

Sounds good to me...however I would make sure that lots of cool water and ice is available.

warm water , no ice. Wouldn't want to risk them going into shock from the cold water.

 

[xotoxi]

no, cause he lacks compassion and is not doing society any favor by treating these people as less than human. i would not put an animal in the conditions that he houses humans in. simple as that

i hate our troops are in any foreign country dying

So its ok for our troops but not for criminals.

Sorry but while our troops may be out in the same heat that these guys are in they are not treated the same way nor do they have the same lifestyle. Not by a longshot.

That's right. In the military, they have access to smoking, porno, and coffee.

 

[ConHog]

HAHA typical Zona. ask him a question he doesn't want to answer and he runs like the pussy he is.

 

[Cecilie1200]

no, cause he lacks compassion and is not doing society any favor by treating these people as less than human. i would not put an animal in the conditions that he houses humans in. simple as that

i hate our troops are in any foreign country dying

So its ok for our troops but not for criminals.

Sorry but while our troops may be out in the same heat that these guys are in they are not treated the same way nor do they have the same lifestyle. Not by a longshot.

You're right, the troops aren't treated the same nor do they have the "same lifestyle". I suspect that might be because the troops . . . wait for it . . . AREN'T CRIMINALS.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Pretty sure this amounts to a violation of human rights by someone.

YouTube - Aryan Brother Slays Inmate In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jail

A) That video is horrible, I couldn't even understand what was going on
B) You rank right below Bert and Blu when it comes to the last people in this world I would believe when it comes to claims of police brutality.

That was not the deputies, they just sat around for 20 minutes, and then tried to save a dead guy. That means someone did not do their job and properly supervise inmates.

 

[Madeline]

No you wouldn't , now list specific examples of human rights violations. No one has yet, gee wonder why?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forum :: View topic - Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses Lawsuit on Correctional Hlth Serv
Latest News - Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has Cost Taxpayers $41 Million
http://www.gavelgrab.org/index.php?s=arpaio&sbutt=Go

You really need to look this guy up. I know what he is about,but maybe its because I live here? Well, you have google to use as a tool. Use it.

Not a thing here proven that he has done wrong. Until he is found guilty, I want a sheriff just like him here where they cut 1/3 of the deputies and released 50% of the prisoners.

SFC Ollie, I understand how you feel. Cleveland has just incarcerated a long time sherriff here for fraud and various other misdeeds, and there's a rumbling that people awaiting trial or subject to arrest were given preferential treatment if they paid, etc. Believe me, as an older lady living alone, crime scares me shitless and I am not unduly sympathetic to prisoners.

But bear in mind, the people in a county jail are (for the most part) not yet found guilty. I don't have the same anger towards them as I do people in a state prison.....and I tend to agree with Zona. Arapgio seems to me to be way to interested in grandstanding and hardly my idea of a penalogist.

 

[Foxfyre]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona), who created the 'Tent City Jail,' has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails, took away their weights, and cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up cable TV again and only let in The Disney Channel and The Weather Channel..

He cut out coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them, 'This isn't the Ritz-Carlton . . if you don't like it, don't come back.'


With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees, a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS.
'It feels like we are in a furnace,' said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for 1 year. 'It's inhumane.'

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!

I haven't had time to read anything in the thread other than the OP, but yell yes. I would not only support him, campaign for him, raise money for him, and vote for him, I would beg to be his deputy.

 

[Care4all]

NEVER EVER WOULD I SUPPORT THIS SHERIFF

he belongs in prison himself...

I HOPE he gets his own treatment if convicted of his alleged crimes...

I don't believe in giving government the POWER this man has SEIZED, no way no how....

Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." He is famous for creating a tent city jail in the Arizona desert; for providing pink underwear for inmates; for bragging that he spends more to feed his dog than a prisoner in his jail.

This year he has made national headlines for his tough enforcement of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration laws and for his vocal support for a controversial new immigration law that takes effect at the end of July.

But the 77-year-old lawman is himself the subject of serious allegations of abuse of power. Arpaio's critics say he has a long history of launching bogus criminal investigations against political opponents and anyone else who gets in his way.

This year a federal grand jury started looking into the allegations.

Former Maricopa County School Superintendent Sandra Dowling says what happened to her is a case in point.

Dowling says was locked in a political battle with some members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over school district funds when the sheriff's SWAT team came in the dead of night to search her home. Dowling was charged with stealing money from a school for homeless students. There were 25 felony counts in all.

"Never could I have imagined what a nightmare was waiting ahead," Dowling said.

Arpaio promised to uncover massive public corruption -- "We are looking into all avenues of this investigation," he said -- and to win a speedy conviction.

From the start Dowling maintained her innocence: "I kept saying I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything."

It took three years, but finally a judge threw out all the felony counts against Dowling. She entered a guilty plea to a single misdemeanor charge. But she said her reputation had been shattered, her career destroyed, and she owed more than $100,000 in legal fees.

"I still don't think that everybody knows I was innocent," she said.

Dowling is not alone. Arpaio has launched -- either on his own or in conjunction with the county attorney -- high-profile criminal investigations against a who's who of Maricopa County politicians and officials. The list includes the mayor of Phoenix, a former police chief, two members of the board of supervisors, Superior Court judges, and even a former state attorney general.

The charges have included public corruption, misuse of taxpayers' dollars, bribery, rape and even child molestation. What all these investigations hold in common is that they were launched with great public fanfare, but rarely resulted in convictions. Among the investigations recounted in this report, the only conviction has been on the misdemeanor charge against Dowling.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon calls the sheriff's long list of investigations a "reign of terror."

Gordon came under Arpaio's scrutiny, he says, after speaking out against the sheriff's neighborhood sweeps to round up illegal immigrants.

remaining of a very long article on him...

Arizona sheriff under investigation for alleged abuse of power - CNN.com

 

[Douger]

Joe is a Nazi. I would decapitate him with a piece of 50 lb test fishing line.

 

[Coyote]

no

 

[Article 15]

NEVER EVER WOULD I SUPPORT THIS SHERIFF

he belongs in prison himself...

I HOPE he gets his own treatment if convicted of his alleged crimes...

I don't believe in giving government the POWER this man has SEIZED, no way no how....

Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." He is famous for creating a tent city jail in the Arizona desert; for providing pink underwear for inmates; for bragging that he spends more to feed his dog than a prisoner in his jail.

This year he has made national headlines for his tough enforcement of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration laws and for his vocal support for a controversial new immigration law that takes effect at the end of July.

But the 77-year-old lawman is himself the subject of serious allegations of abuse of power. Arpaio's critics say he has a long history of launching bogus criminal investigations against political opponents and anyone else who gets in his way.

This year a federal grand jury started looking into the allegations.

Former Maricopa County School Superintendent Sandra Dowling says what happened to her is a case in point.

Dowling says was locked in a political battle with some members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over school district funds when the sheriff's SWAT team came in the dead of night to search her home. Dowling was charged with stealing money from a school for homeless students. There were 25 felony counts in all.

"Never could I have imagined what a nightmare was waiting ahead," Dowling said.

Arpaio promised to uncover massive public corruption -- "We are looking into all avenues of this investigation," he said -- and to win a speedy conviction.

From the start Dowling maintained her innocence: "I kept saying I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything."

It took three years, but finally a judge threw out all the felony counts against Dowling. She entered a guilty plea to a single misdemeanor charge. But she said her reputation had been shattered, her career destroyed, and she owed more than $100,000 in legal fees.

"I still don't think that everybody knows I was innocent," she said.

Dowling is not alone. Arpaio has launched -- either on his own or in conjunction with the county attorney -- high-profile criminal investigations against a who's who of Maricopa County politicians and officials. The list includes the mayor of Phoenix, a former police chief, two members of the board of supervisors, Superior Court judges, and even a former state attorney general.

The charges have included public corruption, misuse of taxpayers' dollars, bribery, rape and even child molestation. What all these investigations hold in common is that they were launched with great public fanfare, but rarely resulted in convictions. Among the investigations recounted in this report, the only conviction has been on the misdemeanor charge against Dowling.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon calls the sheriff's long list of investigations a "reign of terror."

Gordon came under Arpaio's scrutiny, he says, after speaking out against the sheriff's neighborhood sweeps to round up illegal immigrants.

remaining of a very long article on him...

Arizona sheriff under investigation for alleged abuse of power - CNN.com

Yeah, he's a total hardass, authoritarian scumbag with a massive ego. It's no surprise that he appeals to a certain cross section of rightwingers we have here on the boards.

 

[Article 15]

So its ok for our troops but not for criminals.

Sorry but while our troops may be out in the same heat that these guys are in they are not treated the same way nor do they have the same lifestyle. Not by a longshot.

You're right, the troops aren't treated the same nor do they have the "same lifestyle". I suspect that might be because the troops . . . wait for it . . . AREN'T CRIMINALS.

You must be some sort of a genius because that thought NEVER crossed my mind ....