Posted on 08/26/2017 4:41:31 PM PDT by Ennis85
GUADALUPE, Ariz. — Although Joe Arpaio calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” a growing chorus of local critics want another title for him: Retired.
Sheriff Arpaio, the top law enforcement official in sprawling Maricopa County, is perhaps best known for his hard-nosed treatment of prisoners and his aggressive raids aimed at illegal immigrants. But it is his department’s approach to more than 400 sex-crimes cases that has Sheriff Arpaio in trouble.
His deputies failed to investigate or conducted only the sketchiest of inquiries into hundreds of sex crimes between 2005 and 2007, investigations by Arizona law enforcement agencies have shown. Many of those cases involved molested children.
The cases were first raised by The East Valley Tribune in 2008 but resurfaced in the news media earlier this year and in a recent article by The Associated Press, which prompted Sheriff Arpaio to defend himself at a news conference. “If there were any victims, I apologize to those victims,” he said on Monday, vowing to hold deputies accountable.
But his grudging mea culpa only incited more outrage.
“A sincere apology and acceptance of responsibility from Joe Arpaio to these victims would have been the professional and compassionate thing to do,” Bill Louis, a former assistant chief of the El Mirage police, wrote Thursday in The Arizona Republic. “But instead we once again witnessed Arpaio’s smug and defiant attitude — this time directed towards the very victims he neglected.”
Many of the cases originated in El Mirage, a working-class suburb of Phoenix, where the Police Department was disbanded in 2005 and the Sheriff’s Department was called in to provide policing. But when the Police Department was reformed in 2007, officials discovered that dozens of sensitive cases, many filed by illegal immigrants, had not been adequately investigated or investigated at all.
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People that enjoy criticizing need to look at the list of pardons Obama did, it looks like something the Godfather would do. Darned spooky list.
Fake news.
Slimes lies again.
The Red York Times: **crickets** over handling of Bill Clinton sex crimes.
Here comes the predictable smear campaign.
Or Clinton
But the SHJs at the Slimes walked wilfully into the Dim camps, and this time there’s no Ike to free them from the bondage.
Is the Red York Times covering up for pedophiles?
I would be ashamed to post anything legit that goes back to a source as the New York Times. Toxic folk, and they will NOT be balanced.
A hit piece aimed at Trump to discredit him and his pardon of Arpaio. The Slime will go to any length to slander, defame and destroy this president. SHAME on you Pinch.
Can’t get a more appropriate journalist name than “Mark Lazey” . . . lazy reporting, lousy agenda.
Yep, Sheriff Joe refused to investigate prostitutes' complaints of not being paid.
LOL. Guadalupe is the drug/people running capital of Arizona.
Go with it NYT. Put your journalistas there “undercover”.
It will make Harlem look like a cakewalk.
Alright Ennis85. Bronco was CIC and you posted this.
Start talking.
Talking yet or just looking for the big ass Arpaio ZOT?
Hurry up boy.
as i’ve said for many years. Sheriff Joe is a national treasure. one of perhaps three nationally known republican office holders who made a difference for America during the last 4 presidential terms (obama and bush).
may God continue to bless him!
“Bronco was CIC and you posted this.”
I don’t quite get the reference.
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