Sheriff Joe tells Beck he welcomes Justice Department investigation
By David Neiwert Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 6:00am
Glenn Beck, on his Fox News show yesterday, hosted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose misbegotten approach to law enforcement last week inspired the House Judiciary Committee to join the ranks of those calling for a Justice Department investigation.
After Arpaio -- in typical Crazy Bigoted Joe style -- loudly proclaimed that the Latin American-style kidnappings now taking place in Phoenix are a product of illegal immigration (in reality, they seem to revolve around drug dealing and human trafficking), he got a nice rubdown from Beck:
Beck: But Joe, you're now facing heat in Washington. Here you are, a guy who has cleaned that town up more than anybody could -- I mean, if you go away, it ain't gonna be good. But you're facing heat now from members of Congress who are trying to shut you down.
Arpaio: Well, I'm gonna give you a scoop. I'm writing a letter to those members -- these four liberal Democrats on the Judiciary Committee -- didn't have the courtesy to call me. I think I know what goes on at the border -- fourteen years I've spent there with the feds. So I'm gonna write them a letter. I'm going to invite them down to visit the fence and visit our operations.
This is all part of the local politicians going to bed with these congressmen, going to the new attorney general. The mayor of Phoenix has already gone to the attorney general last year to try to get me investigated.
But let them all come down. Call the FBI, call everybody, if you think I'm doing something wrong. So I welcome all these investigations.
Sure. And Dick Nixon welcomed the Watergate investigations, too.
There might be a reason, after all, that local politicians -- and not merely the mayor of Phoenix -- want Arpaio investigated. The state's civil-rights commission is only the most recent entity to join the bandwagon demanding his racial profiling and outright refusal to follow civil-rights laws be brought to a halt.
And just how much has Arpaio "cleaned up" Maricopa County? Well, thanks to his blinkered, racially driven emphasis on illegal immigration in everything he does, even the Goldwater Institute found that actual law enforcement work in his county was being badly neglected:
Although MCSO is adept at self-promotion and is an unquestionably “tough” law-enforcement agency, under its watch violent crime rates recently have soared, both in absolute terms and relative to other jurisdictions. It has diverted resources away from basic law-enforcement functions to highly publicized immigration sweeps, which are ineffective in policing illegal immigration and in reducing crime generally, and to extensive trips by MCSO officials to Honduras for purposes that are nebulous at best. Profligate spending on those diversions helped produce a financial crisis in late 2007 that forced MCSO to curtail or reduce important law-enforcement functions.
In terms of support services, MCSO has allowed a huge backlog of outstanding warrants to accumulate, and has seriously disadvantaged local police departments by closing satellite booking facilities. MCSO’s detention facilities are subject to costly lawsuits for excessive use of force and inadequate medical services. Compounding the substantive problems are chronically poor record-keeping and reporting of statistics, coupled with resistance to public disclosure.
If that's Glenn Beck's idea of "cleaning up" a town, I'd hate to live in his town.
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Well, I agree with the sheriff on one thing, I welcome his being investigated too.
You know, I think Beck is a total lunatic. I watched some of his dooms day program about what if the most awful things happened. It was a nightmare sort of scenario. Then toward the end of it Beck said, but we have god and he will look after us (or something like that). Why the hell would anyone do such a show and then end it with a statement like that? If we are supposed to have god looking after us, why would he allow the nightmare to happen in first place.
Vetoed the helth care for KIDS, god was on vacation. I think he was helping some boxer beat the shit out of another boxer, or he was helping some person win at some sports event. joe and beck, I think they were the idea for the movie dumb and dumber.
They could sure play the parts in that movie with no acting required. Beck is like some sort of novelty now for Fox. He's on each of their shows like some kind of trained weird animal.
If there's nothing but doom and gloom and armageddon, but it's okay, we have God ...
... why the frack would I want to believe in Beck's "God" at all?
Beck is so fu*king strange that there is no telling how he pictures his god. He may be thinking it's a Pez dispenser for all we know.
That was extremely tone deaf of Glenn Beck. I'm sure you've heard of South Carolina's governor telling a man currently depending on unemployment help to get by that he will just have to pray about his situation because the gov will not accept the unemployment funds from President Obama's stimulus plan? What angers me to no end is that this no doubt "Christian" governor is forgetting the Bible teaching that faith without works is dead. That was one of the first ones I learned when I was in church, and it still resonates with me today. This governor has the great faith to tell this poor man to pray, but his faith is deadened so much that he will not lift a finger to help provide practical, tangible help to this man and others like him who are suffering. It is absolutely disgusting, and Glenn Beck is adding insult to injury with his crap.
and still counting. Hey Joe, do you think they will find out about the drugs and beer that gets tossed ovet the fence in the back at night. You are nothing more than a nut case that wants to be in the news any way you can.
If Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "cleaned up" Phoenix then, how come Phoenix had more kidnapping-for-ransom cases last year (more than 350) than any other American city???
Is Sheriff Joe Arpaio afraid to stand up to the drug cartels and gangs who do their dirty work???
lots of the guys who work for joe. they think he is nothing more than a asshole. he gave his butt budie a hi paying job after he retired. the joke is when joe was out eating dinner and a gay guy bitch slaped joe. they tried to stack all kind of charges on the guy but in the end the guy walked. the only guys you will see with joe are the suck-ups.
It will be a pleasure to see this bloated bastard in the bracelets.
Oh, didn't you know? Maricopa County Jails don't have orange jumpsuits for the inmates. No, they get to wear "stripes" and get put on "chain gangs".
Arpaio & Beck:
Tool, meet nut. Nut, meet tool.
Perfect match.
The only reason that Sheriff Arpaio "welcomes" an investigation into his racist policies is that it makes him look good to the old biddies out in Sun City, where he receives a lot of votes.
He also only wants the "liberal" members of the House Judiciary Committee to visit the border so as he can have more photo ops, which he is addicted to.
40,000 plus arrest warrants not served. A television show that borders on entrapment and humiliation. His war with the Maricopa Board of Supervisors, the Arizona State's Attorney General and various local entities. Yeah, you have done a lot to clean up Phoenix, haven't you, Sheriff Arpaio.
...I wanted to be the first to mention "Nickel Bag Joe"! :)
Arpaio is a corrupt bully, a doofus, and an embarrassment to us Arizonans. At least to reasonable, human Arizonans.
Unfortunately, he's real popular with the anti-immigration crowd, thanks to his racial profiling and warehousing of anyone suspected of being here illegally.
I hope the feds can get him out of office. We sure don't seem to be able to get anyone else elected to his position. Sad, but true.
Yeah, that's a viable solution to today's economic woes. You go with that Joe. Sooner or later, you'll see that it contributes to your county's stellar foreclosure and unemployment rates.
Asshat.
too concerned about punishing the wrong people.
Hello, last time I checked people go to jail because they broke the law! Jail isnt supposed to be a nice place. Its supposed to be a deturant. Are you in favor of making jail a cozy nice place where convicted criminals can go chill out for a while untill their sentence just blows over? Its supposed to be imbarrassing! Get it? CRIME DOESNT PAY! F' racism, dont break the law, pull over when you get stopped, dont run from the cops, and you will live 99.99999% of the time. Its a gauranteed win @ Life!
Are you trying to say that crooked cops are OK simply because they're cops??? The story here is that this sheriff is a criminal piece of shit and you're going on about people not losing their lives over a traffic violation??? Strange.
Your narrative is not only disgusting, it's absurd. Ask someone to read the crime stats from his area to you. Then ask them to read some of the cases filed in civil court against joe and his dept. This is not justice on any level, in fact it is crime committed under color of authority. I guess appearing willfully ignorant is not a, "deturant" for you. As for "nickel bag joe" he could not catch his dick in his zipper. To all the people in joes cute tent city, if only you had not tried to run. Why then you would have a "gauranteed" win at life! CEO,citizens,eyes,open.
Then you will stay out of jail. Its as easy as that. And as for this "all cops are crooked", not buying it. Prison is not supposed to be a fun place. Breaking the law should be a shamefull experience. I feel sorry for the people that were effected by his inmates crimes against society.
I dont idolize Joe. But I bet the victims of his inmate population get to sleep alittle better knowing there is some kind of justice.
I cant believe you feel sorry for criminals.
From the link to the Goldwater Institute:
So when you state, "Don't commit crime. Then you will stay out of jail," you miss the point that if you commit a crime in the jurisdiction of the Maricopa County Sherrif's Office, you're more likely to get away with it than you would be if you commited a crime elsewhere.
Or, in shorter form: Sherrif Joe Arpaio actually attracts crime.
Beck is a complete, laughable idiot. What Reslug pays this uneducated, ignorant Dickhead, to spew more lies on TV???
Rupert Murdoch
If Glenn Beck recommends it as a good or clean place, that is more than enough reason to avoid it like a plague.
I would hate to live within 500 miles of Beck. Who knows, he may be contagious.
Boss Cracker welcomes an investigation -Unless it's going to be conducted by them commie-librul left wingers what voted for a black guy named 'Hussein'.
Give me a shotgun and some shells, and some blind hate and some deep seated xenophobia, and I could keep the wetbacks out, too.
"Boss Cracker" is great!
an investigation", I'd start looking for a body in about 24 hours...
This glorified bigot would have been a great sheriff...in 1915.
Bull Connor's response to Civil Rights demonstrators:
http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/10238
Exactly the same type of law enforcement as Joe Arpaio. A single-issue kind of guy.
there is something about a guy who wants the i/m to have PINK shorts. hey joe is there something you want to tell us.
n/t
This sheriff is very dangerous and huge bigot. This corrupt, sicko must be stopped and not given a show, like Dickhead Beck, to spread his hate.
it does my heart warm that joe's pleased. i think however, that he's going to be somewhat taken aback at the differences he's going to find between the last administration's justice department and the present administration's.
They always welcome an investigation, until they get dangerously close, and they pull out saying, "Hey, I tried to cooperate with them, but they're just more interested in a Witch hunt."
He MUST go to prison.
Too bad he couldn't be sent to his own Pink Undie-wearing Tent City, or better yet a public chain gang in stripes that are remeniscent of the early twentieth century Deep South.
I think he was the one boosh was trying to copy when he was running for head goober of Texas. Ann Richards was running on her prison building policy (to relieve overcrowding,) and drug rehabilitation for prisoners, and boosh was going around saying, "Hey if tents are good enough for our soldiers they're good enough for our prisoners."
Most of us thought he was some kind of idiot, and said something like, "But we're not afraid of our soldiers escaping."
But he got voted in anyway. He ran on values, and the Lt Governor actually has more power.
Tue, 02/24/2009 - 07:45 — scytherius
He MUST go to prison.
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That's unlikely, unless anything he's done is prima facie against the law. Otherwise he's protected by professional immunity as long as he was acting in the scope of his profession, and the voters kept reelecting him.
He could, however, be either impeached and/or barred from holding future offices.
Come to think of it, gaol bars would do that too.
Beck loves fascism, despite his talk about "freedom". He won't feel safe until we are all living in a police state where pesky liberals and freethinkers are persecuted to the point where they are silenced and/or eliminated.
Beck would feel right at home in the sort of world envisioned by the likes of Ann Coulter. Once they are goosestepping arm in arm down George W. Bush Strasse to the Temple of Reagan, with crucified liberals lining both sides of the street, then they will feel safe and happy to live in the most wonderful and "free" country on earth.
Which is actually not part of Maricopa county but gets its good name smeared by association to Sheriff Joe. I was reading an article in the WSJ about the economic woes in the town. I had to reread it to realize the town and county of Maricopa are different and do not overlap, because I was shocked that they could talk abuot Maricopa without bringing up Sheriff Joe. I am betting that there are people so turned off that they would never move to Maricopa county and it is probably having a minor backlash effect on the town of Maricopa.
Sounds to me like Sheriff Joe needs to experience a little "justice" on the other side of the bars, just to give him a change of perspective. Maricopa County needs to show people like Sheriff Joe that this is not acceptable behavior for public servants.
Joe's voice: I'm writing a letter to those members ...
Joe's internal voice: LIBERAL DEMOCRATS! Make sure you say they're liberal Democrats!
Joe's voice: ... these four liberal Democrats on the Judiciary Committee ...
Joe's internal voice: HAH! That's got 'em! NOBODY likes the liberal Democrats! As soon as you say they're liberal Democrats they'll all scatter! You're in the clear, baby!
For fuck's sake ...
Sheriff Joe is whacked.
He runs prisons as gulags
He arrests protesters with no legal cause.
He has a hard on for illegal immigrants, that are the cause of all Arizona's troubles. or something.
And you know what, a lot of folks here in Arizona love him.
Maybe they miss Tombstone.
I know I miss Tombstone,
The VA hospital wants me eating less pizza.
I remember having some when I rented the movie Tombstone
Just like I had porkchops when I rented Babe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOvPQW77a6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3YpdMxrIXg
; -)
...and they will die while watching this.
Oh cool so is my brother-Orange County COP!!
I have a brother who's a fireman, and both my younger brother and myself considered becoming cops. But his wife talked him out of it, and in my case being 5'3" was two or three inches too short.
Here in Texas there was one cop who let a guy go for speeding. When the cop asked him why he was speeding, he answered, "Because I heard my wife ran off with a cop."
When the cop asked what that had to do with it he answered, "I thought you were that cop trying to give her back."
many people I know are ashamed of this guy. And many former supporters even say it is time for him to go. The last two elections, his opponent got close, but like edgecity said, there are tons of people here that love him and keep voting for him. And we are stuck with his self-aggrandizement and pettiness and his childish tantrums on the teevee.
But his administration has also cost the county a lot of money in lawsuits against the county over the years. Go figure. I guess you can fool some of the people all of the time....
Phoenix is a City and it's the job of the Chief of Police to do their jobs in Cities; not the County Sheriff. Why should Arpaio do what Phoenix Chief of Police and other Chiefs refuse to do; protect their Citizens!
"Latin American-style kidnappings"
"(in reality, they seem to revolve around drug dealing and human trafficking)"
Human trafficking are illegal aliens coming from Mexico as is most of the preferred drug of choice, Methamphetamines, today.
How then are they not related to Illegal Immigration?
...citizens are.
with an investigation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio
especially since he makes these questionable trips to
honduras, the findings with associate him with (alleged)crimes
of drug trafficing, like cocaine and 420.
He has totally destroyed the local law enforcement infrastructure with his insane Christanic treason and hate crimes. It's amazing that the insane crook isn't in prison for what he's done to the local region.
Step right up! get yer self-hating whatever the hell Sheriff Joe is! I think his grandma would have klopped him upside the head, and put him in an orange suit for a month.
Sheriff Joe is a nutbag all right.
Having said that, illegals are still criminals.
be lured here by the same opportunities our grandparents were lured here by.
For Shame.
How About
...Fine (and if necessary arrest) the people who employ them, and who house them.
Probably a good idea to take another look at NAFTA too, and further decrease their incentive to come.
If not you end with kooks like Sheriff Cracker, and big ideas like 50 foot fences.
"Show me a 50 foot fence, and I'll show you a 51 foot ladder" -Molly Ivins
Pfft. Goldwater had he been alive today, would have taken this little prick out to the Res and fed his ignant racist ass to the Native Americans just for sport. Then he would have dragged what was left of him into the farmers fields and let the Hispanic immigrants working there have at him.
Illegal immigration is still illegal, but if you really want to SOLVE that dilemma, perhaps we'd start dealing with the fact that the last Mexican election was just as stolen (if not worse) by rightwing nutbags than the Bush 2000 debacle here, and that our crap-tastically irrational drug policy is creating a Mexico that I frankly can't blame anyone for wanting to run away from, and that the last oh EIGHTY years or so of U.S. manipulation in Mexico, Central, and South America impoverished MULTIPLE countries, so part of this FUBAR immigration situation is simple KARMA.
Not to mention that we should start punishing the loser companies on THIS side of the border who pay these poor people slave wages rather than following the law either. The immigrant from south of the border (or elsewhere) can at least perhaps claim fear of violence, or poverty as a reason for breaking the law.
What's these corporation's excuse?
Greed?
That's not an excuse. That's a reason for prosecution.
The Police department and the Sheriff's department are two different things here in PHX. When a good candidate ran against Arpaio in the last election, the Sheriff's department flacks spent a million on an ad smearing him, part of the charge against Joe. They were sued for the ad. Arpaio is a piece of crap. He's a drunk who many times has been bailed out by the Fountain Hills Police Department when he was found drunk and passed out in his car. He's the only INDIVIDUAL singled out by Amnesty International, for human rights violations. He routinely raids unemployed workers outside Home Depot and arrests them because they are Latino (no racist profiling here!) Local cities around PHX which contract with the Sheriff's Dept are dropping our of their contracts. Google NewTimes.com for the facts.
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