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[ filed under: immigration entertainment ] Fox has done it again. Not content with Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, Fox TV network has found its most recent “perfect fit” – Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa County, Arizona. We have previously documented Arpaio’s desire for reality show fame as well as his inability to actually solve crime — some 48,000 felony fugitives remain on the loose in his jurisdiction. Fox’s new “Smile! You’re Under Arrest” television program is intended to project Arpaio as “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” Here’s his record. Arpaio has diverted deputies from solving crimes to chasing immigrants — and done so with no real strategy other than to attract television cameras. Arpaio’s deputies carry out traffic stops and neighborhood sweeps that have reportedly stopped people for no greater “crime” than being brown. These sheriff deputies hope they find someone without identification who they can turn over to federal immigration officials. Arpaio even requires that victims and witnesses prove their immigration status – a sure way to get fewer whistleblowers to come forward, thus increasing crime. Seems like an odd guy for Fox to highlight as a law enforcement icon. America’s Voice has just produced a video attempting to give Arpaio “the attention he deserves” — a federal investigation into his record: The conservative Goldwater Institute conducted an investigation and found using FBI crime statistics that violent crimes in Maricopa County have increased 69% since 2004 and murders have increased a whopping 166%; this while nearby jurisdictions have seen either declines or small increases. Arizona’s East Valley Tribune investigated as well and found: “slower response times on emergency calls, a dropping arrest rate, and for a time, excessive overtime costs.” Even better, on September 25th, Arpaio’s jails lost accreditation, and he is now operating the jails outside Arizona law. But some people will prosper under Arpaio’s shenanigans – those who sue the county. Between 2004 and 2007, 2,700 lawsuits have been filed against Maricopa County. The Phoenix New Times reports that: With a fraction of the inmate population, Arpaio has had 50 times as many lawsuits as the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston jail systems combined. … The $41.4 million taxpayers coughed up to insure for, defend, or settle lawsuits is just the edge of the cesspool — one result of inhumane conditions that have long made Arpaio’s jails the target of investigations from both the federal government and advocates like Amnesty International.NAM contributor Henry Fernandez is a Senior Fellow at the Center For American Progress Action Fund. comments |
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YEA for Sherif Joe, he sis the perfect example of what a Sheriff should be
By Jimmy · Posted on Dec 22, 05:54 AMArpaio is far from the perfect example of what a sheriff should be. Maybe he is the “perfect example of what a sheriff should be” if you are mentally insane.
By Pjunkie · Posted on Dec 22, 02:51 PMshenanigans? This sheriff is actually attempting to enforce our immigration laws. Wake up, you are being bamboozled by maudlin stories about “migrant” victims. In LA they cornered 1/8th of the service job market in 3 years! This aint a picnic…it is about law and order…is that a wrong concept to apply to fraudulent workers here in the US?
Please refrain from lumping anti-illegal immigrant groups as some fringe groups…they are not.
By dudeabides · Posted on Dec 22, 10:25 PMThe majority of Americans want their immigration laws enforced and the border anarchy to end. Sheriff Arpaio is doing what the law requires, and many citizens applaud his service.
By Dana · Posted on Dec 23, 12:01 PMI want a law that states for ever Pro illegal aliens story we have a corresponding story about the pain/problems that illegal immigraiton has caused.
By westside · Posted on Dec 24, 08:44 AMOOORAH for Sheriff Joe. The increase in crime in Phoenix is, partly, due to illegal Immigrants running wild. Check the records! Illegals account for most murders in Maricopa County
By Don, USMC, USBP, · Posted on Dec 25, 06:02 PMJesus said love your brothers, not hate and divide.
By soulnote · Posted on Dec 27, 02:06 PMWhat is the end goal of your cries?
our laws in the past have justified horrors like slavery and denying the vote to women, and now you want to do more to divide?
Love your brother
love your sister
pray for love
pray for love
deep in your heart
deep in your eyes
deep in you.
soulnote
As a former 45 year Arizonan who grew up there and has watched this situation progress, and three time victim – Sheriff Joe is in it for the media attention. There are lawful ways to stop the flow and reduce the crime in going by our Constitution and getting the borders secured first, and patrolling then Arizona’s borders thereafter. We have had technology for years for a lazer/sensor system. Only when the flow is stopped will sanity return since it really is the border hoppers, auto thieves, drug traffickers and others creating the majority of the crimes….as far as jobs they are taking jobs away from our youth and returning war vets who have been rebuilding Iraq. But it is the state itself that requests those additional visas – the state legislature bemoans the situation, passing enforcement laws while on the other hand requesting more temporary visas for the big businesses there. He arrest those working at putt putt course, and leaves those that rip off the public at the local car washes and retail stores who hae security cameras that record credit card numbers and even PIN numbers.
Joe is not stopping crime, he is targeting citizens and noncitizens alike and creating more of it by his enforcement methods, and jails where even some misdemeanor violators have died.
Arizona has been a state for 100 years now. It is time to get rid of the Sheriff’s Department altogether, enlarge DPS to include a border patrol and to police unincorporated areas and as backup for incorporated areas. He is a leech on the taxpayers, and has cost MC residents millions with his Hollywood gimmicky and deputies cruelty to misdemeanor even low level DUI offenders and not simply illegals.
By betsyross · Posted on Dec 30, 11:28 AMI hear the negatives
By Bob in Calif · Posted on Dec 30, 01:54 PMon Arpaio but wish we
had more like this man
and in our State of
“left coast Calif”.Break
the law, go to jail. No
t.v., no girlie magazines etc and so on.
Arpaio has my full support. should we let the other 5 billion less fortunate than the average latin american invade and occupy american soil also
By grant · Posted on Dec 31, 09:01 PMAs a 45 year former Arizonan, I hate to tell you but he doesn’t turn them over to the federal government either. He locks them up in tent city, and then gets a few days or weeks labor out of them, and then takes them before the county judge, whereupon they are then released throughout the community. It’s a game for federal tax revenue to get or his jails. He even charges inmates, some of them taxpayers, for their own incarcerations.
The man is a joke insofar as what is truly needed in order to address the crime associated with the open borders and illegal situation, and finally left Arizona after 45 years partially due to that, and the housing situation there.
By betsyross · Posted on Jan 2, 04:40 PMI very highly commend our distinguised sheriff for doing what his job calls for. If government wants to stop him, they should pass a federal law that allows for illegal aliens from anywhere in the world to live in this country.
By victor · Posted on Oct 25, 01:11 AM