America’s Toughest Sheriff Faces New Fight

Fox News ^ | 1/13/2010 | William La Jeunesse

[IbJensen]

He is Arizona’s most popular politician and arguably America’s toughest sheriff, but today Joe Arpaio faces his biggest challenge: a grand jury investigation that could cost him his office.

“It is not right for law enforcement to abuse its authority in this way,” said Paul Charlton, a former US Attorney now representing one of Arpaio’s legal targets. “If you find yourself living in a place where law enforcement investigates its enemies and accuses judges who rule against them of crimes, you are either living in a third world county or Maricopa country.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is America’s fourth largest sheriff’s department. For 18 years is has been run by Joe Arpaio, a flamboyant former Las Vegas cop and DEA agent who turned a local law enforcement agency into a national headline machine.

Arpaio forced inmates to wear pink underwear, claiming the color ‘calmed’ them. He created the nation’s first female chain gang. He reduced inmate meals from three to two a day, claiming to serve the cheapest prisoner meal in the U.S. at just 15 cents each.

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Officials currently under investigation by the Sheriff include:

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon

Chairman of the Maricopa Board of Supervisors Don Stapley

Supervisor and the county’s leading Hispanic politician Mary Rose Wilcox

State Attorney General Terry Goddard

County Manager David Smith

Presiding Criminal Judge Gary Donahoe

[itsahoot]

when he decides to go after Obama’s enemies.

When!

Good grief try to keep up.

[itsahoot]

When Holder subpoenas FR’s records to see who may have read a particular article

Subpoenas! Subpoenas! We don't need no stinking Subpoenas!

We got Echelon.

[ClayinVA]

Here are two of the links from Slashdot.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/15/212254/Arizona-Judge-Tells-Sheriff-Reveal-Password-Or-Face-Contempt

Here is another one about MCSO raiding a blogger
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/1515239

[McGavin999]

The prosecutor is going to lose his job, and if he accepts a job promotion from the Feds then we're going after him on bribery charges.

We LIKE Joe, we WANT him doing his job, and if the Feds don't like it, they can move out of the state.

[McGavin999]

LOL, the Phoenix Times? Now we know what you’re smoking. LOL, ROTFLMAO

[Marine Inspector]

Yup, he should run for office.

He'd never win!

[BJClinton]

I hope you have your fireproof undies on.

Blaspheming Saint Joe of Maricopa like that.

[Dante3]

bttt

[Dutchboy88]

"Maybe you should tell that to all of the gun owners as well whenever someone tramples on their 2nd amendment rights.

Were you out with the other left wing, illegal alien supporters demonstrating against Joe this past weekend? Surely you would share a disgust of someone trampling rights with them, wouldn't you?