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As far as I can tell, Arizona's reputation is almost entirely due to this asshat.

I wouldn't recommend iphones to anyone but certainly not for this reason. The whole notion of lumping Apple in with this classification of criminal is just batshit crazy.

"Sheriff" Arpaio - the worst sheriff in the country:
http://www.arpaio.com/top-ten/...

Oh, so you know of Sheriff Joe?

I wonder what his repeat statistics are in comparison to other places that run taxpayer funded country clubs.

Well, I'm pretty sure that those roving gangs of mentally handicapped people are going to think twice before loitering in any convenience stores. I'm sure that Arizonans can be proud of his "tough on being confused in public" stance, and those pansies from Amnesty International just don't understand just how much danger the coffee pot could have been in from that 130 pound giant if Sheriff Joe and his boys hadn't beaten and tortured him to death.

Of course, I'm just cherry picking the one, lone example of a harmless little guy with the mind of a twelve year old who was murdered by Sheriff Joe. I'm sure that everybody else who has died while in Sheriff Joe's custody have been dangerous, vicious criminals and not, say, people whose only crime was appearing to be mexican, or a blind man serving a short sentence for shoplifting, who accidentally fell out of his bunk so hard that he broke his neck, ruptured his intestines, gave himself severe internal bleeding and broke all of his own toes.

Yeah, that's the kind of "tough on blind guys who commit misdemeanors" stance that we can all support, isn't it?

Sorry, forgot link:

http://www.arpaio.com/index.php

There's a reason this asshole has such a critical website over him. I firmly believe he's a sociopath.

I used to be an officer in the jail system this article is talking about. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a total media whore. He is a semi-decent lawman but is way overrated. He spends most of his day trying to find some reason to get in front of a camera. Almost anyone I asked who worked at MCSO before he was the sheriff said that he is much worse than the previous guy. MCSO has great officers (both Deputies and Detention Officers- jail gaurds) but the sheriff makes it a horrible place to work.

A great website about Sheriff Joe- http://www.arpaio.com/

While the webcam has been down for a while... you can still see booking photos (mug shots) for many people who were recently arrested on MCSO's website- http://www.mcso.org/submenu.asp?file=MugIndex

Fellow gets sent to tent city on minor charges. Another inmate finds out he's on work release (stays at night, goes to work during the day), asks him to call his buddy at a certain number.

Guy gets home, calls the fellow for whatever reason (welfare call or whatever- it's some sob story), and is informed that he's going to smuggle drugs into tent city, or he'll get shivved that night in bed.

Poor slob ends up smuggling drugs in; sheriff's officers don't catch him, since they're not the sharpest anyway. He gives the drugs to the guy that contacted him in the first place, and says he'll never do it again.

But, of course, by then he's on the hook. He'll either get murdered in his sleep, or turned over to the guards for bringing in drugs. Or, when he's outside, he'll get hit on the streets. Doesn't matter- he's done for either way.

That's the way things work in tent city. Thousands of people incarcerated with a whopping total of FOUR guards at some points in time. How the hell they've kept them from rioting, I'll never know.

That's just the way Joe works. And it hasn't changed a damned thing in terms of crime.

Check out "Top Ten Reasons NOT to vote for Joe".

Yeah. It's faked. A study at Arizona State University- paid for by Arpaio- showed that recidivism wasn't changed. So, it got buried.

The guy is a nutcase, and an expensive one at that.

The guy is a nutcase, and an expensive one at that.

"...used by someone to send a libelous email about you."

Sue them? Why not just get them arrested? Arizona law, at least, states:

"Recklessly using a computer... (to) Cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress"

Read the Statute

Class 5 felony; pretty funny prank to pull on your friends next time they piss you off. Of course Sheriff Joe would be glad to help his campaign with a few more numbers on his charts... jackass anyone?