The DOJ has come down hard on the Maricopa county sheriff's office (the fiefdom of 5-Star Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff(R)")
(No word on whether Steven Segal is riding the tank busting down Joes door or not) This is his response: "The Justice Department gave Arpaio two months to reach a voluntary settlement. For such an agreement to succeed, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said it should include reforms to internal affairs and training, as well as an independent-monitoring process. Arpaio said Friday that he will not agree to be "controlled by some federal monitor or something." [Note, Hey Joe, look up that "Constitution" and "US Federal Code" thing sometime, you'll find that you don't actually get to agree or not.] Yet on Saturday he talked of cooperating with the Justice Department and said he has done so throughout the investigation, even though federal lawyers sued MCSO for withholding records during the probe. At the same time, the sheriff rejected as false all of the allegations concerning systemic civil-rights violations. He acknowledged isolated incidents of misconduct by deputies or detention officers, but he said those occurred during arrests of 7,000 suspected illegal immigrants and jail contact with 40,000 others. "You're bound, with 50,000, to get a few complaints," Arpaio said. Likewise, the sheriff denied unlawfully targeting critics for arrest during political protests. "We don't go after anybody," he said. "Actually, they go after me. They're demonstrating in front of my building, calling me every kind of name. If you want to talk about civil-rights violations, what about that?" [Well no WONDER he's confused. Clearly the unwashed masses are committing lese-majesty, why doesn't the DOJ come down on them! And this wasn't over arresting critics for protests, this was for arresting county supervisors for being his political opposition.] Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/16/20111216arpaio-faces-difficult-options.html#ixzz1h0LBfir6"; -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
