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This guy has scruples!!!! :thumbsup:

SHERIFF JOE is at it AGAIN!

You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well . . .

 

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SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

 

Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!

 

Maricopa County was spending approximately $18 million a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors approved.

 

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behaviour.. They give great classes for anyone who would like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.

 

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. The author of this piece adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day they got him. Cost them $78...

 

The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals.

 

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs his jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetable width='100%'s and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.

 

He has a pretty good-sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6-$8 for the Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the Prison.

 

Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote. Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought four new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.

 

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO: HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY , ARIZONA SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER. THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

 

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 The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.

 

When asked why the weather channel, He Replied 'So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna Be While They Are Working

On My Chain Gangs.'

 

He Cut Off 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.'

 

 

More On The Arizona Sheriff:

 

With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set 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!'

 

Way To Go, Sheriff!

 

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes--not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things some citizens cannot afford to have for themselves.
 
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just a brief update to this thread -

Claims that sheriff's office failed to properly investigate serious crimes
Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia

Among other uninvestigated crimes declared "cleared" [solved] were three separate rapes, of 13-YO, 14-YO, & 15-YO girls; one was declared "solved" in under 30-days, before the DNA-kit was even tested.
QUOTE,
"In an interview on the ABC's Nightline news program, when asked to explain why 82% of cases were declared cleared by exception, Arpaio said, 'We do clear a higher percentage than that. I know that. We clear many, many cases – not 18%.'
Nightline contacted the Mariposa Co. Sheriff's Office after the interview, & was told that of 7,346 crimes, only 944, or 15%, had been cleared by arrest."[77]

QUOTE,
"Sex crime investigations
During a three-year period ending in 2007, more than 400 sex crimes reported to Arpaio's office were inadequately investigated or not investigated at all. While providing police services for El Mirage, Arizona, the MCSO under Arpaio failed to follow through on at least 32 reported child molestations, even though the suspects were known in all but six cases.
Under Arpaio, the MCSO may have improperly cleared (reported as solved) as many as 75% of cases without arrest or proper investigation."

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Still think he's a great guy, & an upstanding example of justice? - there's more:
Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia

2007 to 2014, QUOTE,
"In October 2007, Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin, the founders and leaders of the Phoenix New Times, were arrested after publishing a news article on a grand jury investigation involving Arpaio's office.[90] On the evening that the article was published, Lacey and Larkin were arrested by plainclothes sheriff's deputies, 'handcuffed, put in dark SUVs with tinted windows ,and driven to jail.' [91] Following a public uproar over the arrests, all charges were dropped against Lacey and Larkin.[91]
Lacey and Larkin filed a federal Section 1983 lawsuit for the violations of their civil rights, and in 2012 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that they could sue the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for the arrests.[92] In 2013, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted to settle the suit for $3.75 million.[93] Lacey and Larkin used the proceeds of the settlement to establish an endowed chair professorship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[91]

Between 2008 and 2010, Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas together undertook a number of government-corruption investigations targeting political opponents, including judges, county supervisors, and administrators, resulting in filing of criminal charges against several individuals, lawsuits against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and a Federal civil-racketeering suit against the supervisors, four judges, and attorneys who worked with the county. [94]

In early 2010, Arpaio and Thomas sought to have a grand jury indict a number of Maricopa County judges, Maricopa County supervisors, and employees of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. The grand jury, in an unusual rebuke, ordered the investigation ended. This action has been described as meaning that "the case is so bad, there's no further evidence that could be brought" to substantiate it. Legal experts agreed this was a rare move.[95]

Arpaio and Thomas lost every case, either by ruling of the courts or by dropping the case. [96]

Arpaio's and Thomas' actions in these matters led to Thomas' disbarment by a disciplinary panel of the Arizona Supreme Court, which found that Thomas "outrageously exploited power, flagrantly fostered fear, and disgracefully misused the law" while serving as Maricopa County Attorney. The panel found "clear and convincing evidence" that Thomas brought unfounded and malicious criminal and civil charges against political opponents, including four state judges and the Arizona Attorney General. [97] 'Were this a criminal case', the panel concluded, 'we are confident that the evidence would establish this conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.' [98] [99]

At least 11 individuals filed lawsuits or legal claims as a result of being targeted by Arpaio and Thomas. The county settled all 11 cases:[94][100]

  • Gary Donahoe, retired Superior Court judge: $1,275,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $767,127.
  • Kenneth Fields, retired Superior Court judge: $100,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $81,040.
  • Barbara Mundell, retired Superior Court judge: $500,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $134,273.
  • Anna Baca, retired Superior Court judge: $100,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $112,588.
  • Stephen Wetzel, former county technology director: $75,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $107,647.
  • Sandi Wilson, deputy county manager and county budget director: $122,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $458,318.
  • Don Stapley, former county supervisor: $3.5 million settlement. County legal expenses: $1,682,020.
  • Mary Rose Wilcox, county supervisor: $975,000 settlement, plus $9,938 in court-ordered legal costs. County legal expenses to date: over $375,442.
  • Susan Schuerman, Stapley’s executive assistant: $500,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $200,201.
  • Conley Wolfswinkel, Stapley’s business associate: $1,400,000 settlement. County legal expenses: $1,586,152.
  • Andy Kunasek, county supervisor: $123,110 settlement. County legal expenses: $1,150.
In February 2010, Pima County Superior Court Judge John S. Leonardo found that Arpaio 'misused the power of his office to target members of the Board of Supervisors for criminal investigation'.[101]
As of June 2014, costs to Maricopa County taxpayers related to Arpaio's and Thomas's failed corruption investigations exceeded $44 million, not including staff time.' [100] [102]"
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Still think good ol' ex-sheriff Joe saved the taxpayers money? :skeptical: Must be the new math.


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last but not least, in 2017:
ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio convicted of criminal contempt
Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Convicted Of Criminal Contempt

the ex-sheriff deliberately ignored a 2010 Federal court-order that stated unequivocally that local police DO NOT have the powers nor the right to detain undocumented persons for the convenience of Fed cops; yet good ol' boy then-sheriff Joe instructed his officers to keep right on detaining anyone who could not prove their legal residency, FOR 18 MORE MONTHS.
He wasn't arrested & charged until 2017, when he was 85-YO; he got his own jail stay, & i sincerely hope it was in a tent - with no AC in the Arizona heat, & without heat in the cold. Just put on another blanket, ex-sheriff - maybe the striped one, that U knitted from the castoff sweaters U unraveled?...


How former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio became the most-hated lawman in America - Business Insider
www.businessinsider.com/maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardoned-by-trump-20...
Jan 10, 2018 -
...Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, said Tuesday he intends to run for US Senate in 2018. ...





Joe Arpaio, Ex-Sheriff Pardoned by Trump, Announces Senate Run in 2018
Joe Arpaio, Ex-Sheriff Pardoned by Trump, Announces Senate Run in Arizona
Jan 9, 2018 -
Mr. Arpaio quickly drew criticism after the announcement. He had come under fire repeatedly as sheriff over tactics to crack down on Latino immigrants, and was found guilty of criminal contempt in a case that made tempers flare in Arizona and around the country. Plaintiffs claimed Mr.Arpaio had regularly violated the rights of Latinos by racially profiling and detaining them..."
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Note that's the NYX reporting - not the National Enquirer, or the Daily Fail, or the Globe.

Allow me to state my own opinion - which is unflattering. :mad:
Far from "saving money", this contemptible bully rode roughshod over the rights of citizens & noncitizens alike, inside & outside the jail; he used his powers as sheriff to attack political opponents & legitimate journalists, & COST the taxpayers a lot more than if he'd followed the law he claims to respect so deeply, & honored the rights of his fellow humans.
He is a despicable man, IMO. More, the Repugnants don't want him to run; he's already lost the most-populous Repub county in AZ "for" the party. With "friends" like good ol' Joe, who needs enemies?... :rolleyes:

- terry

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Wow that was a big hit of information @leashedForLife after an 8 year gap on this thread!

As this is a UK based forum, I’m not sure anyone here will know who he is.

(Correct me if I’m wrong anyone)
 
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well, @Josie , the OP knew him - & admired the low-down, slinking, greasy, two-faced, underhanded, power-hungry weasel. :rolleyes:
Praps s/he will now see the nasty underside of "Sheriff Joe"s public persona, with an image as a law-abiding, no nonsense, thrifty, firm but fair kinda guy. It was a mask.

Anyone who sends ppl out into record-setting heat to do hard labor in full sun is a sadist; there's a reason that ppl in hot countries, especially unforgiving deserts, AVOID the heat of the day. // Prisoners collapsed on his chain-gangs, & also suffered dehydration, heat-stress, & heat-strokes in his "tent city" with nothing but fabric between them & the sun.
I will note that he did not give up his own AC. // 100 to 110' F is no joke; it can be lethal.
His failure to investigate crimes in his jurisdiction, especially child molestation & rape [the rape victims were of all ages & genders], is indefensible. One young girl continued to be raped by her UNCLE for 4 years, after a rape-kit was taken by a detective on his force, & he was never arrested or charged... for 4 years. As far as i'm concerned, Joe Arpaio is as guilty of those crimes as the persons who committed them.

- terry
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