You piss them off and they come out swinging hoping some one will off them. Thats just great. Sounds like an AH to me. I don't believe in coddling prisoners, but I don't believe in sadism either. The worst punishment they can endure is solitary. That's what messes with the mind. Stick them all in single cells with one window too high to look out of. That would do it. Maybe full cable on a tv stuck on the weather channel and a broken remote? W.Once
Sherriff Joe Arpaio
by Lady Lee 50 Replies latest jw friends
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DubNoMo
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They said the same sort of things about Joe Clark but he cleaned up the high school using his bullhorn and baseball bat. I say all jails and schools should adopt the Arpaio/Clark system and things would improve greatly.
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bonnzo
how does he get re-elected? GW Bush got re-elected too. just shows that some people will, and continue to re-elect idiots.
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mkr32208
How does he get reelected? He gets reelected because mob mentality SUCKS! Mob mentality is INSANE. Mob mentality is how a village (including the girls own family) can drag a daughter out of their mud hut and put a car tire around her neck and light it on fire because they think she's got 'western leanings.'
He gets reelected for the same reason that Corrine Brown, one of the most corrupt disgusting undeducted (D) in congress gets reelected. Incompetents like Ray Nagin get reelected or sorry sacks of crap like George W Bush!
For the same flippin' reason that if the mob voted about civil rights blacks would still be in slavery, homosexuality would still be a stoning offense and woman wouldn't be able to own land... Because when you can whip up the mob you can abuse the minority with impunity... The bottom line is that people as a group SUUUUUUUUCK.
This jail is abuse pure and simple...
and this statement;
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history 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 that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place
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jaguarbass
I can see the tax payers appreciating his methods.
Anything like that make my job as a detention officer a living hell.
But that's my fault for being a Jw and not getting an education and ending up working in a jail.
Personally based on George W. I think republicans are much dumber than dumbocrats.
But if I worked in private industry and was a tax payer, I'd vote for Joe.
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jaguarbass
You piss them off and they come out swinging
Thats what I face every morning. Hoping for a pension.
The worst punishment they can endure is solitary.
Thats our philosophy and what we do.
But sooner or latter they come out.
And they are there.
And I am there.
Thats why I go to the gym every day.
In my unnamed state we get many officers from northern southern states who come further south to get in the AC and avoid the heat pimples.
With no wish to offend anybody, Arpaio is one of the most corrupt, evil men imaginable.
Working in a jail, I would say that describes people who runs jails. Gangsters.
They told me when I went to the police academy. I was joining a gang, the winning gang.
But as a tax payer I would support such a person.
its a nice place to work.
it beats 7-11 shop and robs.
It beats construction.
I havent tried telemarketing or insurance yet.
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This is NOTHING but cruel and unusual punishment...HOW DARE he punish prisoners...where's the air conditioners, cable tv, dead weights and drugs...this is unconstitutional...he should be arrested and jailed in his own jail... This morning. I appologized to an inmate because the Mod was about 65 degrees and he only had one sheet.
He said it was a rough night. I said why didnt you say something. He said when he went down they didnt have any blankets.
He got the opposite of the Joe Arpaio effect further south.
There was a whole pile of blankets outside the door.
I come in after they go to bed.
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OtisBarker
Joe Arpaio, bad.
Law-breakers with rights, good.
Understanding the consequences in Maricopa County, good.
Enforcing consequences in Maricopa County, bad.
Sheriff who does nothing, good.
Law-breakers who get 3 squares/day, good.
Sheriff who makes criminals PAY for crime, bad.
It feels good to feel bad.
Vote democrat.
Otis
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jaguarbass
Sheriff who makes criminals PAY for crime, bad.
It feels good to feel bad.
Vote democrat.
Otis
I dont really care for the dumbocrats but if you vote republican you get more of what you got.
Bankruptcy and the end of Amerika.
8 years of the downword spiral would make most people take note.
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TD
How much of a parallel is there with Joe Clark?
Currently, eleven inmate deaths (Including the death of a mentally handicapped man arrested for loitering) are directly attributable to the conditions in Arpaio's jails and the excessive force of his deputies and detention officers. How many other Sheriffs in the U.S. can claim that honor?
Diabetic Deborah Braillard who was arrested for an alleged probation violation, was denied insulin for two days. When she began vomiting and moaning she was moved to a cell where her cries would not disturb officers. She lapsed into a coma and died.
Wheel chair bound paraplegic, Richard Post was arrested by MCSO deputies for possession of 1.1 grams of marijuana. The abuse he received in the jail, including physical restraint(!) and refusal to allow him to empty his urine bag left him a quadriplegic.
Pregnant Michelle McCollum was beaten by fellow inmates at the Fourth Street Jail and denied medical care for two days while she bled vaginally. She was finally taken to the county hospital where the fetus was pronounced dead. She was returned to jail for three weeks before she received additional care. She was unconscious at this point from loss of blood and needed massive transfusions.
In the Jeremy Flanders case, Arpaio was found to be personally responsible for a third of the resultant six hundred fifty three thousand dollar settlement, having admitted that some conditions at tent city were known to precipitate inmate violence.
Arpaio has been denounced by The Arizona Ecumenical Counsel, Amnesty International, The American Civil Liberties Union, The Anti-Defamation League, and The American Jewish Committee.
Arpaio has bragged that it costs more to feed police dogs than prisoners. (Does any student of history want to take a guess at what historical figure in the last century was proud of that fact?)
Not surprisingly, Maricopa County and the MCSO have had to defend themselves at taxpayer expense from over 2000 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and hundreds more in Maricopa County courts. That is more than all other major cities in America combined.
The cost to insure for and defend against these lawsuits has cost taxpayers over forty one million so far.
During the course of Arpaio’s tenure, Maricopa County has already paid out a staggering forty three million dollars in settlement claims to the families of dead inmates and suspects.
Millions of dollars in claims are still pending. The current aggregate total is somewhere around fifty one million.
In Demery vs. Arpaio, the Appellate Court found that he routinely violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of pre-trial detainees.
Maricopa County and the MCSO are now the target of a massive class action lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of those pre-trial detainees.
During his first election (The one where I actually voted for him) Arpaio promised to serve only one term. He made a huge display of publicly signing a notarized document to that effect. He is now in his fifth term.
Arpaio arrested executives from two small independent newspapers who criticized him.
IP addresses of all visitors to one of these paper’s websites, (Phoenix New Times) were subsequently demanded on the grounds that visitors to the site were guilty of "civil disobedience."
Arpaio threatened to arrest reporter Ray Stern for attempting to examine public records at the City of Phoenix Public Records Office.
An Arpaio commissioned (And financed) study conducted by ASU Criminal Justice professor Marie L. Griffen found that his policies have done nothing to reduce recidivism.
Abuse of power is abuse of power. You don’t have to be a softy or an advocate of prisoner’s rights or even a Democrat to be outraged by it.
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SixofNine
Arpaio sounds like the kind of guy admired by Republicans.
