Posted on 04/09/2017 11:35:40 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
The outdoor jail that was Mr. Arpaio’s marquee undertaking was a travesty. Ostensibly established to save money and deter criminals, who presumably would want to avoid sweltering in desert heat, it failed on both counts. In fact, closing the encampment will save taxpayers some $4.5 million annually. And in a recent study, the inmates there said they preferred the facility, the heat notwithstanding, to the cramped cells in conventional jails.
In announcing that the encampment would be closed, after 24 years, Mr. Arpaio’s successor, Paul Penzone, a Democrat, said, “Starting today, the circus ends, and the tents come down.”
Mr. Arpaio’s MO was humiliation and intimidation. Furious at the federal lawsuit targeting him, he struck back at President Barack Obama, becoming one of the leading voices of the “birther” movement and deploying a team of “investigators” to Hawaii with the intent of proving that the president’s birth certificate was somehow concocted. That failed.
Sensing the political advantage in harassing immigrants, he launched sweeps in Hispanic neighborhoods, making his office and the deputies who worked for him agents for racial profiling. The sweeps continued for more than a year after a federal judge ordered them halted, as Mr. Arpaio expressed his contempt for the judge’s authority.
In the end, Mr. Arpaio was passed over for various prominent jobs for which he was said to have been a candidate in the Trump administration. Finally, it is the sheriff who has been humiliated, and rightly so.
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Camps were wrong / Inmates preferred them
Leave it to the brain-trusts at the WP to provide gems like this in their writing.
They mention the costs involved, then don’t directly connect them to the over-crowding illegal aliens caused, or what it could have cost to build a brick and mortar permanent expansion on the jail system.
He hoped it would be temporary, but Obama refused to clamp down on the border, and that resulted in it not being temporary.
Bill the federal government Arizona.
Dear Washington Post,
This man who you denigrate as an idiot and a failure was elected at least 5 times to public office.
At some point I hope you people realize why middle America hates your publication and the travesty you have become.
Bryan24
If it wasn’t for Leftwing corporate activism, MSM arms such as a WAPO would be out of business.
Disney, Comcast, and Time Warner also participate in the MSM thuggery and misinformation game.
The hand-wringing bedwetters are now in charge.
Of course you are echoing (and –I'm guessing– mocking) the WaPo editors' misuse of the word 'travesty' in the very first sentence of this snide piece.
To the WaPo's ill-educated editors, I quote Inigo Montoya:
"I do not think it means what you think it means.”
And we all know that the Washington Post Editorial Board loves saving taxpayers money.
Wait just a minute there, no they don't.
But at least the Washington Post Editorial Board would prefer that inmates be kept in cramped cells in conventional jails.
Well, no they don't prefer that either.
It must be mighty confusing to be a member of the Washington Post Editorial Board, comrade, because someone has to tell you what you think and what you believe and what you prefer - clearly you're not smart enough and can't be trusted to figure it out for yourself.
The current sherif will be gone next election. Sherrif Joe lost the election due to his age more than anything else. A lot of conservatives I know wanted Sherrif Joe to retire, and voted for the Dim. Couldn’t believe it but there it is. Anecdotal of course.
The current sherif will be gone next election. Sherrif Joe lost the election due to his age more than anything else. A lot of conservatives I know wanted Sherrif Joe to retire, and voted for the Dim. Couldn’t believe it but there it is. Anecdotal of course.
And Illegal aliens and their supporters rejoice.
will save taxpayers some $4.5 million annually.
= = =
Might save that in ‘incarceration costs’, but probably at least 5 times that in direct crime costs. And more in secondary effects.
I hope President Trump appoints Sheriff Joe to a top Federal position, no matter what it is and for whatever the length of term. It will be a symbolic “finger” move to the communists, who need to be purged, as all commies do.
McSlime is the one of the most vile creatures. I’d love for it to be proven how election fraud keeps this creature in office.
Another voice was Hillary but we're not supposed to remember that.
Whatever Sheriff Joe did was the right thing to do. It'd be interesting to see the recidivism of his inmates compared to other jails.
Revisionist history
Arpiao was investigating BEFORE the federal suit. 0bama and crew fired off their suit in retaliation
The sheriff’s office proved all of 0bamas documents were poorly forged.
There’s even a credible case that 0bama isn’t even a US citizen, as being born on the soil does not bestow citizenship
Reputations, lives, careers, families, incomes and so forth of prominents names-in-the-news who are anti-Left are in their cross-hairs, now and forever.
They are employing the time-honored Alinsky tactics of "isolate, attack and destroy" as we speak.
Sheriff Arpaio has been on the Left's list for a long-time...O'Reilly is in their sights at the moment, he will be leveled, also.....who will be next?
Leni
Gosh, sure glad no agenda is detectable in the title...
If the top of Sheriff Joe's head should wind up at his shoe-tops by the time the witch hunt is over, he'll still be ankles, shins, thighs, waist, chest, shoulders, neck, chin, cheeks, mouth, nose, eyes, forehead, and scalp taller than the groveling folks at the Washington Post, pig trough.
The fellow saying that is a Democrat. These guys are Alinskyte crazy. Freezing and personalizing your target must not always work. I certainly hope not.
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