The U.S. Department of Justice pulls the trigger on a suit against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The suit, naming Arpaio, Maricopa County and the sheriff's office, argues Arpaio engaged in racial profiling, sloppy police work and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is disputing claims made by one of his "special deputies" who recently wrote a book [...]
For someone who holds the relatively modest position of county sheriff, Joe Arpaio has received an astonishing amount of attention from this year's Republican presidential hopefuls. He has been wooed by Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum, Sheriff Joe Arpaio states Probable cause Obama birth certificate fraud, March 1, 2012 news conference, Arpaio criminal [...]
The good news comes from Phoenix, where a Justice Department report has blasted Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio's zealous embrace of the law has led his office to disregard civil rights. States and local governments don't have the option to put law and By JACQUES BILLEAUD, ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — The federal government issued a scathing [...]
The three-year investigation found reasonable cause to believe that sheriff's deputies racially profiled Latino drivers, illegally arrested and detained Latinos, retaliated against critics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policies, and discriminated … The Department of Justice's politically-motivated quasi-witchhunt of Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has concluded with a report claiming that Arpaio engaged in "unconstitutional [...]
The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement just cut off the Maricopa County's Sheriff's Office's access to the Secure Communities program and terminated an agreement which lets them Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination [...]
