Al Sharpton debates Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

[Father Time]

'and what proof do you have his draconian tactics reduced crime?'

As chief law enforcement officer for the county, Arpaio continues to reduce crime with hard-hitting enforcement methods. His deputies and detectives have solved several high-profile murder cases, including nine child murders. The posse, whose ranks have increased to 3,000 members under Arpaio, is the nation’s largest volunteer posse. Posse men and women help in search and rescue and other traditional police work as well as in special operations like rounding up deadbeat parents, fighting prostitution, patrolling malls during holidays, and investigating animal cruelty complaints. The posse’s contributions are invaluable and essentially free to taxpayers.

Where are you getting that from?

 

[DiamondDave]

In Sharpton vs. Arpaio I vote for all mangled and killed, both of them are assholes and Arpaio abuses power.

Oh and yes we need to protect ourselves from people who wish to come here and do blue collar work oh the horrors.

illegals suppress wages for legal residents and citizens in blue collar occupations.

you're okay with that?

You know if we made them legal residents then they couldn't be paid less than minimum wage.

you know if they simply went thru the legal immigration process, they would not be criminals deserving of prosecution and deportation... you know that if they came in to work legally they would be paid in the same manner as every other legal employee

 

[DiamondDave]

You know if we made them legal residents then they couldn't be paid less than minimum wage.

they're not paid less than minimum wage now, but they do undercut *legal* workers bargaining position by being willing to work for less than they are simply because they're *illegal*. do you think that's fair to the legal workers?

Then prosecute those who hire them....simple.

As told to you before.. PROSECUTE BOTH.... neither side should get off easy

 

[Titanic Sailor]

and the only real reason the Sheriff is there is because the federal government has failed the American people, and the illegal aliens, for more than half a century.

I don't really care what problem we have, more than likely you can trace it's roots to massive government failure. Again and again and again.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Sharpton is a race card playing ambulance chaser and not very intelligent.

Sheriff Arpaio is a racist prick who will do anything to enforce law with an iron fist.

Both are losers IMHO. Sharpton vs. Arpaio is nothing more than a South Park Cripple Fight.

 

[Angelhair]

Where are you getting that from?'

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

 

[del]

In Sharpton vs. Arpaio I vote for all mangled and killed, both of them are assholes and Arpaio abuses power.

Oh and yes we need to protect ourselves from people who wish to come here and do blue collar work oh the horrors.

illegals suppress wages for legal residents and citizens in blue collar occupations.

you're okay with that?

Impossible.

There is a LEGAL minimum wage.

talk to a legal construction worker and get back to me, slick.

 

[Angelhair]

'Just upholding the law? Is that why he's being investigated by the FBI, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General?'

Arpaio did offer a response in his inimitable smear-the-critics style:

There were a number of blatantly false and incorrect assertions in Thursday night’s incredibly long and laborious TV story on Channel 5 in which the reporter insinuated that Sheriff Arpaio and his office are breaking the law by “investigating anyone who criticizes the Sheriff.”

Rather than dignify the reporter and his piece with a lengthy response to assertions made, we will simply respond with a few ‘facts’ of our own.

Their expert interview who insisted that an indictment be sought against Sheriff Arpaio also said that no where in America should Arpaio’s tactics ever be tolerated. His name is David Iglesias. This is the same attorney who was fired in 2006 by the US Attorney General for several different reasons.

Iglesias was criticized for looking the other way in an investigation involving ACORN, an organization that embraces illegal immigration and is currently under intense scrutiny and investigation by the US government for fraudulent schemes.

Paul Charleton, a colleague of Iglesias and was often quoted in the Channel 5 piece, was also a U.S. Attorney fired in that same 2006 house cleaning by the U.S. Attorney General. Now he is the attorney of record for Don Stapley in his fraud investigation which obviously leaves Charleton as an impartial and bias observer of the facts.

Channel 5 has a few reporters and photographers working there who have an axe to grind against this Office. That’s fine. But when it shows up as obviously as it did in last night’s report, it underscores why many today feel that fair and impartial journalism has gone the way of the dinosaur.

I somehow don't think carping about reporters is going to hold much water with the FBI and the Department of Justice, though.

Karma is headed Joe Arpaio's way. It won't be pretty, but it's long, long overdue.

 

[Father Time]

illegals suppress wages for legal residents and citizens in blue collar occupations.

you're okay with that?

You know if we made them legal residents then they couldn't be paid less than minimum wage.

you know if they simply went thru the legal immigration process, they would not be criminals deserving of prosecution and deportation... you know that if they came in to work legally they would be paid in the same manner as every other legal employee

Well expecting them to do that is clearly not working.

 

[Father Time]

Where are you getting that from?'

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

So the sheriff is claiming he's reducing crime. What a surprise.

I don't see anything backing him up though, just a claim that he has.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Where are you getting that from?'

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

So the sheriff is claiming he's reducing crime. What a surprise.

I don't see anything backing him up though, just a claim that he has.

Then you're either blind or stupid, possibly both.

The Maricopa County crime rate, which dropped 19 percent between 2004 and 2008, is declining more than twice as quickly as the national average...

 

[Father Time]

Ooh so there's a correlation big whoop. Your article doesn't even blame Arpaio for the drop in crime but instead the prosecutors.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Ooh so there's a correlation big whoop. Your article doesn't even blame Arpaio for the drop in crime but instead the prosecutors.

Nevertheless it proved you to be an ignorant asshole!

 

[Father Time]

How?