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From a friend, good read.

Arizona Sheriff, Joe Arpaio


FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO - HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY 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":

He 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. 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."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

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 ?years. "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 damned 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 taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.
 
Sheriff Joe is a bit of a publicity hound, but he doesn’t take any guff.

What I like about him is the way he riles up the leftys (having ruined California, they’ve fled to Phoenix to rebuild it in the image of the place they already ruined; blazing a trail of chaos where ever they go). They waste gobs of time and energy and resources complaining about him.

You just can’t buy this kind of entertainment
 
Sheriff Joe is the man! A gal I dated years ago got to spend 90 fun filled days in tent city on a DWI. Young man told me that he might drink and drive again, but not in Maricopa County!
 
"How old is this ? It's sure not 116 right now."

Sorry, I don't know. It just came today.

and...

"I am not a real bullet, nor do I play one on TV."

Now THAT'S funny!

:D
 
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails.
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Is this true? There's a federal court order requiring cable TV for prisons? That's downright crazy. Good for that sheriff, sounds like he created a real honest to goodness... ehhh... prison! :rolleyes:

I think chain gangs are a mighty fine idea. Look at Sing Sing prison (up the Hudson River from NYC, and yes, that's where the phrase comes from), they rafted in a bunch of inmates to the site of a former stone quarry and they put them to work to build the prison! The entire original prison was built by prisoners.
 
When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
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:evil:
 
I understand from some friends in Arizona that Sherrif Joe will not sign any Class 3 forms. So while he may be tough on criminals, apparantly he's pretty tough on the Second Amendment too.

Take his political moving with a grain of salt before electing him champion....
 
Seems odd. This is a guy who has deputized about 1500 folks to go serve warrants. I would think that he would support the Second Amendment.
 
Did he allow this 1500 man posse go armed? I saw pictures of them, no arms were visible.
 
a quick google search verifies just about all the stuff in the first post and turns up some good stuff http://www.mcso.org/submenu.asp?file=aboutsheriff&page=1
and some bad stuff too http://www.arpaio.com

seems he get mixed reviews. but you can still get his bobble-head doll.
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Found at the first link:

"Posse members who wish to carry a firearm must undergo seventy-three (73) hours of firearms training, undergo psychological testing and consent to a urinalysis in order to qualify to be a Qualified Armed Posseman (QAP). "
 
I understand from some friends in Arizona that Sherrif Joe will not sign any Class 3 forms.
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A guy I work with (we both live in Maricopa Cnty) has 3 class III items (MP-5, suppressor, and an Uzi). He acquired all three here, and had no problems with Sherrif Joe approving them. Word from him was that Sherrif Joe mostly rubber stamps such things, assuming you are not disqualified by law from owning guns. If not seen much in the way of evidence that he's anti-2A in the least. Course, I've not even been in my house here in Mesa for a month yet so we'll see.
 
We give cable to our inmates..the proceeds from the inmate store pays for it, so we are out no money at all.
Arpio is very popular, but does some weird things, like ordering 10,000 pairs of hot pink handcuffs, so they won't be stolen by other LE agencies. HA! I know of at least 4 or 5 officers who told me they're gonna snag as many as they can!
That interwie is about 1-2 years old....In the same one, an inmate complained he was "being treated like a common criminal"..........even the Readers' Digest reporter was stunned.
"And your point is????" :rolleyes:
 
Only one i've heard bad mouth Joe are a few of the nut liberals we have. Most either from Ca or the East Cost. Wish I could vote for him but i'm not in his county
 
Actually all is not that great under this politician's RULE:
"Maricopa SWAT Disbanded
Arpaio SWAT move ripped
By Mark Flatten, Tribune

Joe Arpaio

The Maricopa County sheriff’s SWAT team was abruptly disbanded shortly after two of its officers were shot serving a high-risk search warrant in a murder investigation, the Tribune has learned.

In the weeks before the raid, the unit’s top two commanders were reassigned without explanation, replaced by supervisors from outside the elite unit. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the transfers are part of a routine reorganization of his office, implemented shortly after the Nov. 2 general election. In all, about 300 employees in the sheriff’s office, including command staff, sworn officers and detention officers, are being moved as part of the reorganization.

On Monday, Arpaio denied concerns, raised by former sheriff’s officers, including the head of one police union, that the transfers were political retaliation against those who supported his opponents in the Republican primary and general elections.

The 12 members of the fulltime SWAT team are being reassigned to other duties, Arpaio said. The SWAT unit will be rebuilt with other officers who will also perform patrol duties, he said.

In the interim, the sheriff’s office will rely on the Arizona Department of Public Safety and other local police agencies that have active SWAT teams to respond to incidents such as barricades or hostage situations, he said.

The revamping of the SWAT team is being questioned both within the department and by officers outside the sheriff’s office. "I hate to see it come to an end," said Deputy Sean Pearce, one of two SWAT team members shot while serving the warrant in Mesa on Dec. 16. "You are talking years and years of experience among the guys who were transferred. Thousands of dollars were put into training us and getting us up to the standards that we were at. I hate to see it happen. Nobody has given us an answer as to why."
Pearce, son of state Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, accompanied his father on the floor of the state House of Representatives Monday for the opening day of the legislative session. Both he and his father supported Dan Saban, a former Mesa police officer, in Saban’s unsuccessful bid to oust Arpaio in the Republican primary last year.

The departmentwide reorganization was announced shortly after the election, and the transfers were effective Nov. 22, according to documents obtained by the Tribune. Capt. Phillip Babb, who had been the captain in charge of the SWAT team, was reassigned to the general investigations unit. He was replaced by Capt. Joel Fox, who served briefly on the SWAT team in a part-time capacity in the 1990s. The team’s front-line commander, Lt. Michael Mitchell, was reassigned to the training unit. He was replaced by Lt. Dave Trombi, the sheriff ’s former public information officer who has no SWAT experience.

Both Babb and Mitchell had come up through the ranks of the SWAT team. They were well-respected by other SWAT officers in the Valley who were contacted Monday. Babb, who was the captain in charge of the SWAT team for six years, said Monday he was not told why he was being transferred, other than that there was a reorganization in the agency.

Fox and Trombi were in place as the SWAT team’s new commanders on the morning of Dec. 16, when Sean Pearce and Deputy Lew Argetsinger were shot during the police operation in east Mesa. Pearce was shot in the abdomen and Argetsinger in the hand. The suspect was wounded by another deputy.

Arpaio said the tactical decisions made the night the deputies were shot came from experienced SWAT team members, not the new supervisors. Pearce said he has not been told where he will be assigned when he returns to duty. The other members of the SWAT team have already been reassigned.

Arpaio said the agency’s reorganization was planned long before the election, but that he waited until mid-November to finalize the shake-up. If he had lost, it would not have been fair to hand his successor a newly reorganized agency, Arpaio said.

Deputies are being recruited for the new team, which will resume taking assignments after its members are trained, Arpaio said. "It’s time to get some fresh blood in there, to give other deputies a chance to be on the team," Arpaio said. "We’re trying to get more deputies on the streets, so our new deputies will be doing other jobs, too, including patrol, to help our response times."

Arpaio’s decision to scrap the existing team was slammed by experienced SWAT commanders, including the former head of the unit. Keith Frakes, who spent more than 10 years on the team before retiring from the agency as a captain in April, said the sweeping changes Arpaio has instituted since the election smack of politics. "When you look at a lot of these transfers, they weren’t done for the good of the office," Frakes said of the departmentwide changes. "They were punitive in nature. They were rewarding people who they felt were supportive and punishing those that they think weren’t. I think they kind of lumped the whole SWAT team into that a little bit." Chris Gerberry, president of the Maricopa County Deputies’ Association, also said the departmentwide transfers show a pattern of rewarding Arpaio’s political supporters with choice assignments.

The county’s SWAT team has built a national reputation, and its members frequently trained officers from across the country, Frakes said. While it would not be unusual to change commanders or officers on the SWAT team one or two at a time, disbanding the entire unit robs the agency of the expertise and experience that would be valuable in training new members, Frakes said. "That is an unprecedented move and it’s clearly indicative of a bigger problem," Frakes said. "It’s a travesty. It’s a travesty from all of the things that have been invested over the years. And you’ve got citizens that were robbed of a potential response capability that could have been brought to bear to help them."

Ron McCarthy, a former Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team supervisor and now a consultant on special police teams, said disbanding an experienced SWAT team with the national reputation that the county’s unit had "is about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard."

Aside from classroom training, it takes years of experience to hone the skills necessary to serve effectively on a SWAT team, McCarthy said. Replacing the entire team without reason amounts to squandering the time and money spent on their training, he said. "If he (Arpaio) has made the decision to disband the SWAT team and put in newer, younger people, that’s dumb," McCarthy said. "They’re making a mistake." Lt. Bob Gervasi, commander of the Mesa SWAT unit, said he and other Valley SWAT supervisors were surprised when they were told the entire sheriff’s unit was being reassigned.
Like McCarthy, Gervasi said it takes years to fully train a SWAT team member. Disbanding the sheriff’s SWAT team will not compromise public safety because other agencies will respond when called, Gervasi said. Officer Frank Valenzuela, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said the state agency’s SWAT team has always responded when other agencies call for help. DPS’ SWAT officers often assisted the sheriff’s team in the past, and will be able to handle calls from the office, Valenzuela said. DPS has one full-time SWAT unit in the Valley and another part-time unit, Valenzuela said."
And this was only the tip uf the unprofessional iceberg!!! :uhoh:
 
Did anybody see him on Penn & Teller's show? He sure didn't seem like a friend of freedom to me. Seemed a lot more like an enemy in fact.....

Just because he is tough on criminals doesn't mean we should like him. He would happily have you living in a tent in the desert if your barrel was a 1/2 inch short.....
 
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