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Reuters) - As many as 200 activists, some chanting "go Joe, go Joe," rallied in Arizona on Saturday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling probe for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.
"Sheriff Joe is one of the very few guys who will enforce the immigration laws across this nation," said Randy Hatch, who used a megaphone to rally supporters of Arpaio at a park in this northeast Phoenix valley city.
"Every constitution and country that has ever existed has had to have sovereign borders," he said to cheers from the crowd, some clutching placards reading "Sheriff Joe keeps us safe" and "illegal is illegal."
Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," is a resident of Fountain Hills.
Earlier this month the Obama administration said it was preparing to sue Arpaio and his department "for violating civil rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos."
The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the federal government for targeting his department while failing to confront the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live and work throughout the nation.
Arpaio supporter Buffalo Rick Galeener slammed the probe, which began under former President George W. Bush in 2008, as "politically motivated."
"For me it's just a big waste of money and all political," Galeener, who had a .38 revolver in a holster on his hip, said at the rally.
"It's been going on for three and a half years ... they've been digging and digging and digging, and they still can't find anything to charge him with," he added.
The rally came amid heightened tension over immigration in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week over a partially blocked state law that targeted illegal immigrants.
Signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in 2010, the law requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being in the country illegally. It was among measures blocked by a federal judge before it took effect.
Arpaio has also been under fire for his treatment of prisoners in his jails. Last month, a federal appeals court noted that a requirement that inmates wear pink underwear may be unconstitutional when applied to those not convicted of a crime.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took up the policy in reinstating a lawsuit against Arpaio and Maricopa County by the estate of a mentally ill man who died of heart problems in 2001, weeks after being forcibly dressed in the underwear. Supporters, though, said Arpaio's tough treatment of detainees worked.
"He doesn't want you to return so it's not going to be a pleasant experience " said Mark Renner, 50, who said he had served time in the Maricopa County jail system. |
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Maricopa County must go!
www.arpaio.com/ - Similarto Sheriff Joe Arpaio Maricopa County must go!
The truth about Joe Arpaio the Sheriff of Maricopa County. Read comments from officers that work for the self acclaimed toughest Sheriff and why they don't
A few reasons why Joe's GOT TO GO
Click to read more
With Arpaio, real community law enforcement takes a backseat to publicity stunts.
He lives in a fantasy world of self-importance.
Millions of tax dollars have been wasted on lawsuits
He is responsible for a critical and dangerous shortage of personnel in both in the jails and patrol.
Hundreds of current MCSO employees, represented by a number of employee organizations, have expressed a vote of no confidence in Sheriff Arpaio.
The self proclaimed “Toughest Sheriff in America ” is too fearful to debate other candidates.
Arpaio routinely abuses his authority for personal, political, and vindictive reasons.
Many Phoenix community leaders and concerned organizations have looked beyond the smokescreen to see the corruption and incompetence of the Arpaio administration.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deceived, misinformed and outright lied to the public and violated rights!
Arpaio's self-serving and ego-driven actions have severely damaged relations between the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and other Arizona agencies. |
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BLOOD ON ARPAIO'S HANDS
Imagine you are the mother of a mentally handicapped thirty-three-year-old-man. Your son functions on the level of a twelve-year-old boy. His disability often causes him to act erratically, but you still hope that one day, he can lead a normal life. One night in August, 2001, he is arrested on a misdemeanor loitering charge when he begins acting strangely in a convenience store. When officers arrive to arrest him, he is clinging to the store's coffee machine and won't let go. Four officers forcibly remove him from the store, handcuff him, and throw him to the ground to be hogtied. The force seems excessive, since your son is disabled and only weighs about a hundred and thirty pounds. A few minutes later, his limbs bound behind his tiny frame, officers load him into the squad car to take him away. Before they pull away, your son asks you, like a little kid:
"Mom, will you ride in the car with me?"
"I can't," you tell him, "the police won't let me."
You figure that the police will probably hold your son overnight, and you head home to get some rest.
Two hours later, your son is dead.
When Charles Agster arrives at Madison Street Jail, he is confused, as is typical of his condition. He tries to wriggle underneath a bench, and although he is still hogtied, three or more officers and a sheriff's deputy jump on him, punch him, and knee him in the side. One officer grips his face, pressing upward toward his chin. Although he is now unresponsive, the officers drag him, face down, into the Intake area and strap him into a restraint chair. They place a spit-hood over his head, encasing him in darkness. Minutes later, he stops breathing. The original autopsy lists "positional asphyxia due to restraint" as his cause of death.
Videotape of the incident shows guards trying to resuscitate Agster, but he's already brain dead. A 2002 Amnesty International report expresses concern "that the degree of force used against Agster was grossly disproportionate to any threat posed by him."
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BLOOD ON ARPAIO'S HANDS
Forty-year-old Brian Crenshaw was serving a short sentence for shoplifting. Although Crenshaw had been in and out of jail for years and had a drug problem, he had never been accused of a violent crime. He was also legally blind. After an altercation with officers, Crenshaw reported injuries to jail medical personnel. His eye and nose were sutured, and his vitals were taken. Crenshaw stated that he was pushed to the wall, punched and kicked by officers. Apparently, the struggle ensued when Crenshaw refused to show his ID in a lunch line. Due to the altercation, Crenshaw was placed in lockdown.
For the next six days, nobody entered or left his cell. On March 14, Crenshaw was found unconscious next to his bunk. He had a broken neck, several broken toes, and extensive internal injuries. He was comatose, his intestines had ruptured, and his vertebrae needed to be straightened with a halo. Doctors told Crenshaw's mother that his internal injuries were so severe they had to surgically open his stomach to relieve swelling. The sheriff's office asserts that Crenshaw's struggle with guards did not cause the injuries that led to his death. Despite the severity of Crenshaw's injuries, the sheriff's office maintains that these injuries were incurred when he fell from his bunk.
On a CBS 5 program after the incident, interviewer Chris Hayes asks Arpaio, "Is it possible your guards beat Brian Crenshaw to death?
"Is it possible?" Arpaio sneers. After an uncomfortable pause, he continues, "No, they did not, they did not, and if that's what your critics, or that you're insinuating we went into that cell block and beat him up and threw him to the floor is ridiculous. We did a thorough investigation on that. The man fell off a bunk."
Crenshaw's bunk was 4'2" high, about a foot shorter than a child's bunk bed , or as Chris Hayes pointed out in his investigation, a little taller than a desk.
You don't have to be a softy or an advocate of prisoners' rights to become outraged at reports like these. We all want a sheriff who is tough on crime—and we don't want our tax dollars to be spent on luxurious accommodations for inmates. Rest assured, the conditions in Maricopa County's jails aren't lavish, comfortable, or even tolerable. The temperatures inside Tent City often reach 120 degrees in the summer, and with only four guards for every thousand prisoners, Arpaio is cutting dangerous corners and endangering both inmates and detention officers. The sheriff brags that he spends more money feeding police dogs than he does inmates. The dogs, he argues, deserve better, since they haven't done anything illegal. What's important to remember is that Tent City doesn't just house hardened criminals—it also houses people who are awaiting trial; people who haven't been convicted or even accused of any crime. One young man spent four years in Arpaio's jails before being released—and acquitted on all charges. Arpaio boasts that he's saving money by keeping inmates in these conditions, but the cost of humiliating inmates is beginning to skyrocket.
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Jeremy Flanders was beaten nearly to death by fellow inmates in 1996. His assaulters grabbed some loose rebar tent stakes and beat him unconscious. Flanders sustained serious permanent injuries, including irreversible brain damage. Judge Lankford found Arpaio personally responsible for thirty-five percent of the judgment, and accused Arpaio of intentionally creating conditions that would cause violence. Judge Lankford asserted that Arpaio knew that inmates often used the loose rebar tent stakes as weapons, and did nothing to stop it. According to Lankford, "The sheriff admitted knowing about, and in fact intentionally designing, some conditions at Tent City that created a substantial risk of inmate violence: i.e., the lack of individual security and inmate control inherent in a tent facility; the small number of guards; a mixed inmate population subject to overcrowding, extreme heat, and lack of amenities. The history of violence, the abundance of weaponry, the lack of supervision, and the absence of necessary security measures supports the jury's finding of deliberate indifference to inmate safety."
In early June, 1996, Scott Norberg refused to cooperate with guards at Madison Street Jail. Nine detention officers entered the cell, forced him to his stomach, and restrained his legs by sitting on them. At some point in the struggle, officers decided to place Norberg in the restraint chair. Even in Maricopa County jails, the chair is seldom used. One officer stated that the chair was used about three times a year. It stands to reason that use of the restraint chair would be strictly limited to the most necessary cases, since its employment is often lethal. However, the Sheriff's Office provides no specific details as to who ordered Norberg be placed in the chair, or to what degree his combativeness was a threat to officers' safety.
Norberg had been arrested after wandering around Mesa, disoriented. He talked nonsense to the officers that approached him, and punched one of them in the head as he was being arrested. When an officer told him to shut up, he dropped dramatically to one knee, begging for forgiveness. Norberg had just been released from the hospital. He had been admitted for dehydration and abnormally low blood-sugar, telltale signs that he'd gone on a dangerous drug-binge and had been up for days on speed. Upon release from the hospital, he went to his former in-laws' house to ask for a blessing. They suggested he seek out a Mormon bishop. Norberg wandered around, aimlessly searching for the bishop. Norberg was acting strangely, and at one point began chasing two girls. He was weak, disoriented, and crashing hard.
Norberg had drug problems. He had also been an Eagle Scout, a high school football star, and a missionary in Venezuela with the Mormon church. Norberg made no excuses for his drug problems, and he still had hope that he could get better. "On the surface, my self-portrait may now be muddled and marred," he writes in a birthday letter to his father, "But underneath await the colors of a masterpiece. Beneath crude rock, a 'David' is still breathing."
Detention Officer Kimberly Walsh held a towel around Norberg's mouth while he was in the chair, in order to keep him from spitting. When asked about specific training regarding safely placing combative inmates in the chair, she responded, "Training? The way I learned was by the first time doing it. They tell you what to do." Phoenix police officer John Courey was at Madison the afternoon that the struggle took place, and he recalls hearing an officer shout "How (do) you like (it), you think you're a very tough guy?" Courey says he heard it repeatedly, "Something to that effect, several times." As Norberg was beaten, he cried out, "What did I do?" and "Please have patience."
Walsh says she told officers that Norberg was turning purple. When they didn't respond, she said that she didn't think he was breathing. According to Walsh, Officer Martin Spidell spun around and said, "Who gives a vulgar language?" Scott yelled, "Oh God, please help me!" On the television news program 20/20, an inmate remembers asking officers, "What are you still beating on him for? He's already dead." After guards ignored signs that they were suffocating Norberg, he died of positional asphyxia. Before he expired, officers had tased him more than twenty times.
A few months before Norberg died at the hands of Arpaio's guards, paraplegic Richard Post was drinking at an Irish Pub called O'Connor's. It was St. Patrick's Day, and Mike Tyson had just defeated English heavyweight Frank Bruno. A musician was just finishing a song, and Post wheeled over to him and let him know the results of the fight. Thinking that the Irish-American occupants of the pub would be pleased to hear that the Englishman had been knocked out, the musician announced the results to the crowd. Some people cheered. Others booed.
In an hour, Post finished two drinks. An older gentleman approached him and asked, "Why don't you get the hell out of here?"
"Why?" Post replied, "Did you bet on the Englishman?"
The older gentleman informed Post that he was calling the police. Post shrugged and didn't think much of it. What he didn't know was that the older man was James O'Connor, owner of the pub. O'Connor, who had been drinking, went behind the bar and called the police.
Post wasn't sure what to make of what he'd been told. He wasn't sure whether or not he was serious. But, he figured if the cops were on their way, he'd better stay where he was. After all, he had been drinking, and he didn't want to get pulled over. When the cops arrived, O'Connor informed the two officers that Post had called him "a Protestant and an Englishman." He later denied claims that he told officers Post was extremely intoxicated, and insisted that Post wasn't drunk.
The officers gave Post a choice: he could take a cab, or they would take him to jail. Post told officers he would wheel home. Then they searched him and arrested him after finding 1.1 grams ofmarijuana in his backpack. The videotape of Post being taken to jail shows that he is lucid and cooperative. The tape also shows Post explaining to authorities that he has a urine bag attached to his ankle, and the bag is full. Unless it is emptied and an internal catheter is supplied, he won't be able to urinate. His bladder aches.
"This is a jail, not a hospital," he was told.
Before an officer locks Post into his cell, he tells him, "There's a big difference between what you need and what you get in here. Don't be a baby."
As the pain in Post's bladder accelerated, panic set in. Paraplegics are susceptible to kidney disease from infrequent urination and unsanitary conditions. He manually emptied the urine bag, desperate for some kind of relief. He banged on the cell door, yelling that he needed a catheter. Finally, Post wheeled over to the toilet, tossed in a roll of toilet paper, and started flushing. Before long, the toilet was overflowing. Post figured that if he could create a big enough ruckus, he could attract a number of guards. Hopefully, one of them would sense his distress and help him.
Sergeant Steve Kenner finally responded, but he didn't give Post a catheter. He put him in a restraint chair. Post asked Kenner for a prescribed gel pad that went on his wheelchair. Without it, he explained, he could develop sores that would require surgery. Finally, a nurse arrived and determined that Post needed the pad. They briefly removed the restraints and shoved the pad halfway underneath him. Then, Kenner tightened the restraints, pulling the straps so tightly that they compressed Post's spine. They left him in the restraint chair like that for six hours. Sores developed on Post's anus that did, in fact, require surgery. In the days following the incident, Post developed a numbness in his left hand. His arms shriveled.
He is now a quadriplegic. Doctors determined that the injuries Post incurred while he was detained are the cause.
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Forty-six-year-old Deborah Braillard passed away January 25th, 2005, after being arrested for alleged probation violations. In 2003, she had been placed on three years probation after being convicted of drug offenses and credit-card violations. When she was booked into jail on January 2nd, Deborah and her family were concerned for her safety. Because she was a diabetic, she required frequent insulin injections. However, because of her prior conviction and jail stay, jail medical personnel knew about her condition. Nurses were present in her cell on January 3rd and on the 4th, but they did not examine her or administer insulin.
On January 5th, a security report notes that Braillard had begun "kicking… groaning (and) yelling." She was moved to another room where her wails wouldn't disturb officers and awaken other inmates. A few hours later, a nurse entered the pod, but again, did not treat Braillard or give her an insulin injection. As soon as the switchboard opened at seven a.m., Jennifer Braillard, Deborah's daughter, called and notified officials that her mother was diabetic, and she told them what kind of insulin her mother needed.
Hours later, Braillard fell into a diabetic coma. On January 5th, she entered the hospital, where she drifted in and out of consciousness, where she passed away in the hospital on January 23rd. If jailers would have bothered to look at Braillard's records, they would have noticed that during an earlier incarceration, she was given insulin every day.
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Phillip Wilson, 40, was beaten to death by inmates. When officers returned the contents of Phillip's wallet to his mother, family photographs, his identification, and other personal items were missing. What she got instead was his Fry's card and a handful of old receipts. Officers gave his mother a number of different explanations for the assault. They claimed that Phillip owed money to other inmates who attacked him in retaliation. Maricopa County officials have failed to produce any evidence to substantiate this claim. They also suggested that Phillip was murdered in an aggressive attempt to steal his onyx ring, which would have been taken from him when he was processed in the intake area. The ring was never returned to the family. Robert Butler died in a restraint-chair related incident.
Charles Ward's body was removed from the Durango Jail a few hours before country crooner Glen Campbell started his set. Campbell had been picked up on a DUI, and received star treatment. He was allowed his own private cell in a Mesa jail. Apparently, Arpaio's tough-on-crime, tough-on-inmates doesn't apply to celebrities. Men and women have died and will continue to die in Arpaio's dungeons as long as he is in office.
The cost of all these lives lost has been immense for the families of the victims. Unfortunately, all this blood comes with a bill, too, and it's tens of millions of dollars. So the next time Joe brags about how much money he's saving us by cramming inmates into his sweltering dungeons where they eat green bologna, Consider this: when all of the cases pending against Arpaio settle, the wrongful death suits may have cost Maricopa County taxpayers more than fifty million dollars, and will continue to cost us even long after he's out of office after these cases progress. In fact, the debt Joe has straddled us with may well be his biggest legacy. It's probably an easier pill to swallow if you're in an air-conditioned penthouse in downtown Phoenix, but for Maricopa County taxpayers, the effects can be devastating. Currently, Arpaio is listed as the defendant in over fifteen hundred cases. Maricopa County taxpayers shouldn't have to keep paying for the blood on Joe's hands.
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Top Ten Reasons to recall Joe
The staff at Arpaio.com has polled citizens and employees of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and has complied this Top Ten Reasons NOT to vote for Arpaio.
1:With Arpaio, real law enforcement takes a backseat to publicity stunts.
As an example in one of Arpaio's latest stunts, and at a time when there were 12 unsolved execution-style murders in the county, he staged a massive prostitution round-up publicity stunt.
This two month "sting operation" involved over 350 deputies that were pulled off other investigative details and patrol that resulted in 80 cases that have all been declined for prosecution by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
Nicholas Hentoff of Phoenix wrote in a letter to the Editor of the Arizona Republic" If Joe Arpaio continues to spend the county's scarce law enforcement dollars on chasing consenting adults engaged in private sexual activity, while child murders and sexual assaults remain unsolved, he should be the one to explain to the next grieving mother why her child's killer has not been caught, prosecuted and put in prison. And the taxpayers should send him a message by electing a new sheriff who doesn't treat public funds as his private public relations piggybank."
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2: He lives in a fantasy world of self-importance.
His claims of arresting Elvis Presley, breaking the French Connection, and being in weekly shoot-outs suggest a serious mental problem.
Some of his other claims include:
Arpaio: Invented the idea of housing inmates in tents.
Truth: This is untrue, the Arizona Department of Correction has used tents for decades. Facilities in other states also used tents before Arpaio.
Arpaio: Claims credit for feeding green bologna (surplus food) to inmates
Truth: Jails and prisons here in Arizona and all over the country feed surplus food to inmates and done so for many years.
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3: Millions of tax dollars have been wasted on lawsuits
Lawsuits brought against Arpaio by employees, former employees, inmates, and the families of dead inmates have cost the county millions and Arpaio has misled the public about the cost to taxpayers of lawsuits.
The case of Scott Norberg, who died in jail, is a good example. Arpaio has frequently said the $8.25 million settlement cost the county nothing and was covered by insurance. What he does not say is that, at the time of the settlement, the county had a $1 million deductible.
Because of these lawsuits, the deductible for the sheriff's office insurance coverage has increase from $1 million to $5 million per incident.
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4: He is responsible for a critical and dangerous shortage of personnel in both the jails and patrol.
This condition is unsafe for the officers, the inmates, and the public. This situation leads to more lawsuits which results in more millions of tax dollars wasted.
Arpaio has created a critical and dangerous shortage of deputy sheriffs needed to perform fundamental law enforcement services in the unincorporated areas of the County.
Deputies that could be assigned to patrol, are assigned instead as personal bodyguards for Sheriff Arpaio.
Detention officers, desperately needed in the jails, are assigned to the labor-intensive, publicity-producing chain gangs in order to get Arpaio on more TV news programs.
Projects that bolster Arpaio's ego, satisfy his need for publicity, and insure his personal safety are all fully staffed. Unfortunately, at the same time on the streets and in the jails of the county, lives are placed at risk by Arpaio's self-serving abuse of authority .
Also Sheriff Arpaio has the largest executive staff of any police agency in Arizona and perhaps the United States . By comparison, the Los Angles County Sheriff's Department, the nation's largest, has half as many on the executive staff. The millions spend on excess executive positions should be used to hire employees that could be assigned where really needed.
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5: Hundreds of current sheriff's office employees, represented by a number of employee organizations, have expressed a vote of no confidence in Sheriff Arpaio.
Police officers associations throughout the State of Arizona have voted "no confidence" in Joe Arpaio as Sheriff! These include; State of Arizona Fraternal Order of Police, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five, Maricopa County Deputies Association, Arizona Cops.
If the police officers in the State of Arizona have no confidence in Joe, why should you?
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6: The self proclaimed "Toughest Sheriff in America " is too fearful to debate other candidates.
There have been several debates scheduled this year between the candidates that are running for the Office of Sheriff. All the candidates have appeared minus one, Joe Arpaio.
Why is Joe so afraid to debate his policies in public with the other candidates? Could it be that he couldn't read from his "scripted" speech that he has given hundreds of times before other public gatherings where he makes his outlandish claims to fame.
Several years ago Sheriff Arpaio visited the outlying patrol districts of the Sheriff's Office to what was suppose to be a "question and answer" meeting between his employees. Instead at each of these four meetings he started out with his canned political speech telling the deputies how important he was and that they depended upon him for their jobs. At District's Two and Three, he was politely asked by Patrol Sergeant's in attendance if he could answer questions from the deputies. He hesitantly stated that he wasn't prepared to answer any questions but would try. He was then asked basic questions that involved officer safety issues, the lack of training, and pay issues. Arpaio fumbled trying to answer, and on several occasions sidestepped the question entirely. Weeks after these meetings, the deputies and sergeants that asked these questions to Sheriff Arpaio were transferred to newly created positions within the office. One assignment was being stationed in the basement of the main jail on graveyard to answer a telephone that never rang, and another to the property room, inventorying items in storage.
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7: Arpaio routinely abuses his authority for personal, political, and vindictive reasons.
Two Republicans and an Independent running against Arpaio have all alleged abuses of power on the part of Sheriff Arpaio. In 2002, the county settled a lawsuit out of court with former employee Steve Barnes for wrongful termination after he blew the whistle on questionable tactics by the sheriff's office.
Barnes claimed that Arpaio's office wiretapped former Arpaio aide Tom Bearup and that it had targeted County Attorney Rick Romley for surveillance. Bearup, W. Steven Martin and Dan Saban, all running for sheriff against Arpaio this year, have also reported that they have been followed and harassed by sheriff's deputies.
Another example would also be the arrest of Nick Tarr, otherwise known as "Joe Arizona". In 2020 there were three hot propositions involving Indian gaming in Arizona, Nick's "Joe Arizona" character supported racetracks having slot machines, Sheriff Joe was supporting a proposition that kept Indian gaming on Indian land. For Halloween Nick decided to campaign in downtown Phoenix dressed as an officer. He went into his prop closet can came out with an old uniform shirt from DPS, his trademark "I Love Arizona" t-shirt, and a pair of Arpaio's pink boxer shorts.
Dave Hendersott, chief Deputy of the Sheriff's Office spotted Nick and he called DPS twice to have them come out and give Nick a citation. DPS officers came out and decided there was no crime. Undaunted, Hendershott then ordered his own deputies to arrest Tarr of impersonating an officer.
The charges against Tarr we later dropped and Tarr now has a lawsuit against the Sheriff's Office.
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8: Many community leaders and concerned organizations have looked beyond the smokescreen to see the corruption and incompetence of the Arpaio administration.
Sheriff Joe used to boast of 80% approval ratings amongst the voters of Maricopa County . But as the truth gets out about how he really runs one of the nations largest Sheriff's Offices, his popularity is taking a nose dive! Currently the O'Neal survey lists his approval rating at only 35%
As an example, the Son's of Italy dropped Arpaio as being a "Top Cop" cited controversy over allegations of people dying or being seriously injured while being held in Arpaio's jails. "I just believe that law enforcement officers, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion," De Sanctis said, making reference to William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." "There's too much controversy right now for us to include Sheriff Arpaio in our report," she said.
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9: Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deceived, misinformed and outright lied to the public!
He lies about his personal history, the cost of lawsuits, the effectiveness of his programs, and the money he claims to have saved taxpayers. He takes false credit for posses, chain gangs, tent jails, feeding surplus food to inmates, and pink underwear.
There are numerous examples that we can find where Sheriff Joe has outright lied to the public.
As an example, Arpaio spent over $10,000 in tax payer money to have Arizona State University study recidivism in his jail system. ASU found that there was no change in the rate at which inmates returned to the jail. Joe has discounted this study as false and continues to claim that his jail program has reduced crime in the valley.
Another claim is that Sheriff Joe has saved county tax payers millions of dollars because of his innovative programs. Then why can't he control his budget? Why was he $7 million dollars in the hole in 1999/2000/2001 and where did the money go? Why was Loretta Barkell put into the Finance Director with a title of Deputy Chief? Because the BOS put her there and told Chief Hendershott that if he got a handle on the budget he would get his raise.
For More examples, check out our Truth Page.
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10: Arpaio's self-serving and ego-driven actions have severely damaged relations between the sheriff's office and other government organizations. .
Joe Arpaio filed a law suit against the BOS over the money and he hired outside attorneys to represent him. Joe and County Attorney Richard Romley have never got along in any way. He has never advised the City of Phoenix P.D. of his "Joe Shows" or asked if they wanted help and just moved in. |
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OK Webs lets compare lists of dead folks in Arizona we saw yours heres mine.
by John Hill
Stand With Arizona
More than 50,000 Americans have been killed by illegal aliens since 9/11.
Think about that.
More than 6,000 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since that same date. But nearly ten times that number have been killed right here at home as a consequence of the Federal government’s failure to secure our borders and protect its citizens, in direct violation of the Constitution’s Article IV Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
More than 50,000 dead as a direct result of this violation. Yet the media ignores the victims. And politicians don’t recognize the loss of tens of thousands of families.
Heres a partial list of victims of US citizens murdered by illegals. Hey libs wheres the outrage???
Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Murder of Arizona Rancher, FOXNews.com, Mar 30, 2010 - Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, pictured here in 2008, was killed in March on his own property 35 miles outside of the border town of Douglas ...
Jesus Manuel-Acosta
Saul Lopez-Acosta
Trinidad Castro-Acosta
Adam Allen
Antigone Monique Allen
John R. Barr
Robert Benn
Francisco Bernal
Josie Bluhm
Darness Brown
Jerry Dwane Braswell & Jerry Dwane Braswell Jr.
Josslyn Dinoso-Brooks
Kent Boone
Jennifer Bower
Officer Phoenix Braithwaite
Margaret 'Peggy' Campbell
Jennifer Carter
Cheryl, Ian and Julinna Ceran
Bob Clark, director of "A Christmas Story"
Nayasheika Cooper
Charlie Derrington
Jeremia Reyes Diaz
Breanna Slaughter-Eck Officer Nick Erfle
Araseli Martinez-Fabela
Kelly Frye
Adam Allen-Garcia
Christine Allen-Garcia
Joycelyn Gardiner
Scott Gardiner
Hester 'Faye' Coleman
Kristian Allen-Garcia
Officer Hugo Arango
Deborah Atkinson
Marc Atkinson
CHP Officer Gregory Bailey
Hong Im Ballenger
Carol Bareis
Cindy Benitez
Dr. Claudia Benton
Kelly Bergen
Brittany Binger
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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Sat May 12, 2012 8:41 am |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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This item involved the Nov. 2, 2010, general election
Russell Pearce
Race: State Senator - District No. 18
Party: Republican
U.S. Rep. Steve King's 2006 news release on crime by illegal immigrants.
Government Accountability Office's 2005 report on criminal histories of illegal immigrants.
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House committee on Homeland Security's report on border threat.
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The issue: Illegal immigrants and crime
Who said it: Russell Pearce
by Vaughn Hillyard - September 27, 2010, 11:51 pm
What we're looking at
Updated: Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said individuals living in the country illegally kill about 9,000 Americans a year, averaging 12 a day by stabbings and shootings and 13 a day by DUI and "related crimes."
The comment
"An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes."
The forum
Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, sent the e-mail on Aug. 28 on behalf of BanAmnestyNow.com. Pearce serves as an honorary national co-chairman of the organization.
Analysis
Pearce attributed the statistics to a report from U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, titled "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border."
The report, however, does not include Pearce's statistics or other information on the number of killings by illegal immigrants each year.
Instead, it appears Pearce derived his numbers from a May 2006 news release from King's office that stated: "The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals."
John Kennedy, communications director for King’s congressional office, said the office stands by its numbers.
It is unclear how the office developed the statistics, but Kennedy said updated numbers could be provided this fall from a report King requested from the Government Accountability Office.
The GAO produced a report in May 2005 on the criminal history of illegal immigrants incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails.
Richard Stana, director of the GAO's homeland security and justice issues office that published the 2005 report, said the new request from King and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., is to "essentially update that report" and the result will come out this fall.
The 2005 GAO report covers a sample population of 55,322 out of the 308,168 illegal immigrants incarcerated in federal prisons, state prisons and local jails. In the data, 13 of the 18,581 illegal immigrants in federal prisons were convicted of homicide.
The report did not include the number of incarcerated illegal immigrants in state prisons and local jails convicted for homicide, which was defined as murder or manslaughter. Homicide does not include victims of vehicular accidents caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Stana said the sample data cannot represent the entire illegal-immigrant population.
"I'm not going to pass judgment on (King's) use of a number that is not in our report," Stana said.
The FBI's uniform-crime report identified 13,636 murder cases involving 15,760 offenders in 2009.
The uniform-crime-reporting program does not collect information on the citizenship of offenders or victims or their ethnicity. DUI-related traffic deaths are not included in these numbers.
Ramiro Martinez Jr., a criminal justice professor at Florida International University and author of the book "Latino Homicide," said there is no statistical support for the 9,000 estimate by King and Pearce.
"It is complete fabrication. I would challenge anybody to substantiate that claim," Martinez said.
"There is no data anywhere to support that statistic."
Spokesmen for NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies, which study immigration, said they do not track the statistics on murders by illegal immigrants.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security does not maintain statistics on murders or fatal DUIs by illegal immigrants.
King's office did not return several followup phone calls from AZ Fact Check seeking further information on the basis of the numbers. Pearce did not respond to a follow-up voice mail and e-mail from AZ Fact Check.
Bottom Line: Pearce and King could not produce research to support their 9,000 estimate, which was disputed by a leading expert in the field.
Sources
U.S. Rep. Steve King's 2006 news release on crime by illegal immigrants
U.S. Government Accountability Office's 2005 report on criminal histories of illegal immigrants (GAO-05-646R)
House committee on Homeland Security report
FBI 2009 uniform crime report's data on homicides
Keyword(s): Border / Immigration, Public safety |
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El Supremo
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Vigilante Leader Was Among Five Shot Dead in Arizona
By FERNANDA SANTOS
Published: May 3, 2012
GILBERT, Ariz. — The police confirmed Thursday that a former Marine and aspiring politician who led a vigilante border militia group was among five people shot to death on Wednesday in what apparently was a murder-suicide at a home in this suburban Phoenix town.
Matt York/Associated Press
J. T. Ready preached violence to stop illegal immigrants at the border.
The leader, Jason Todd Ready, who was called J. T., was known as a gun-carrying, camouflage-clad extremist who preached violence to stop immigrants and drug smugglers from crossing the Arizona desert into the United States from Mexico.
“I firmly believe in having a minefield across the border,” he once said.
The police were awaiting the results of an autopsy to identify the gunman, but at a news conference on Thursday, Sgt. Bill Balafas, a Gilbert police spokesman, said signs pointed to Mr. Ready. “The gunshot wound locations, just the scene itself, the condition of the victims, how they were found at the scene — they all lead to him,” Sergeant Balafas said.
The shooting occurred after 1 p.m. on a placid dead-end street here.
A neighbor four doors away heard gunshots and called 911. Sergeant Balafas said another call came from the shooting’s sole survivor, a teenage girl who told the police she had heard an argument, and then gunfire. She said she emerged from a back room to find the bodies.
The bodies of Mr. Ready, 39, and another man, Jim Franklin Hiott, 24, were found just outside the home’s front door. The bodies of Mr. Ready’s girlfriend, Lisa Lynn Mederos, 47; her daughter, Amber Mederos, 23; and her 15-month-old granddaughter, Lily Lynn Mederos, were inside.
Inside the house, the police recovered two handguns, a shotgun and six projectile grenades, which Tom Mangan, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix, said are strictly for military use. Officers also found two 55-gallon drums containing an unknown chemical. Sergeant Balafas said federal agents were investigating the origin of the weapons and the nature of the chemical, as well as why they were there.
The police gave no motive for the shooting, but said there was no indication that it had been planned or was connected to Mr. Ready’s beliefs or his work along the border. “At this time,” Sergeant Balafas said at the news conference, “it appears to be a purely domestic situation.”
Mr. Ready moved into the house to live with Ms. Mederos in the last year, according to neighbors, who on Thursday recalled him as pleasant and peculiar, always wearing camouflage clothing and a military vest.
To Harry Hughes, regional director of the National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States, Mr. Ready was “a patriot” — “a sincere and compassionate man,” he said in a telephone interview. Mr. Ready had been a member of the movement, Mr. Hughes said, but resigned two years ago to found the U.S. Border Guard, an armed group that conducted expeditions in the Arizona desert to search for migrants and drug smugglers.
Mr. Hughes said he had joined one of those expeditions. “We’d come across people who have been out in the desert for eight or nine days, we’d give them water and then we’d notify the Border Patrol,” Mr. Hughes said.
[b]Mr. Ready, though, described the group in a 2010 interview as “the Minuteman Project on steroids,” made up of “people with assault weapons” willing to use “lawful, deadly force when appropriate.”
His was one of a number of private border-enforcement groups to sprout in recent years, unique because of its ties to the white supremacist movement. Kat Rodriguez, a director at the Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson, which opposes the militarization of the border, said that the two created a dangerous intersection, with one group serving as fertile recruiting ground for the other.
Mr. Ready pleaded guilty to assault after he was arrested in 1992 for helping another man destroy a car mirror with a baseball bat. In the Marines, he faced two courts-martial, one for an unauthorized absence and another for assault and other charges, which prompted his discharge, according to a biography compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in the United States.
“J. T. Ready has a long history of thuggish and violent behavior,” Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the center, said in an interview. “He really typified the ugly racism and violent attitude of a lot of people that we see in the nativist movement.” [/b]
In recent years, Mr. Ready tried his hand at politics; in 2007, he was photographed at a rally against illegal immigration with Russell Pearce, a former State Senate president and the architect of Arizona’s contested immigration law, known as S.B. 1070.
“At some point,” Mr. Pearce said in a statement, “darkness took his life over, his heart changed and he began to associate with the more despicable groups in society.”
Mr. Ready ran for office without success as a Republican contender for a State House seat in 2004 and for a City Council seat in the neighboring city of Mesa. This year, he began an effort to run as a Democrat for Pinal County sheriff. |
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Sat May 12, 2012 8:54 am |
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Pretty funny that someone living in or near Flint Mi thinks they can condemn those Arizona folks for doing "something"when it comes to the out of control crime caused by those in this country and their state illegally. I guess what your saying is lets just have no borders.
Reminds me of those local handwringers who wont put Flints out of control crime and who is causing it in perspective.
By the way, know anyone living near the Arizona border? I do, it sounds a lot like Flints N. end except the perps there speaka no english. |
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