Monday, December 05, 2011

Self proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" only tough on illegal immigrants, gives child molesters and rapists a free pass.

Courtesy of the Boston Globe:

The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her. 

Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the middle of the night by her mother's live-in boyfriend. She woke up in her room at least twice a week to find him standing over her, claiming to be looking for her mother's cell phone. 

Both cases were among more than 400 sex-crimes reported to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office during a three-year period ending in 2007 -- including dozens of alleged child molestations -- that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all, according to current and former police officers familiar with the cases. 

In El Mirage alone, where Arpaio's office was providing contract police services, officials discovered at least 32 reported child molestations -- with victims as young as 2 years old -- where the sheriff's office failed to follow through, even though suspects were known in all but six cases. 

Many of the victims, said a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, were children of illegal immigrants. 

The botched sex-crimes investigations have served as an embarrassment to a department whose sheriff is the self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff" and a national hero to conservatives on the immigration issue. 

Arpaio's office refused several requests over a period of months to answer questions about the investigations and declined a public records request for an internal affairs report, citing potential disciplinary actions.

This is unconscionable!  The idea that this asshole will harass and aggressively pursue people coming to this country looking for work, and their shot at the American dream, while allowing children to be victimized sexually with no protection whatsoever should forever destroy what is left of this pompous prick's credibility!

I cannot speak for the people of Arizona, but if it were me I would be MUCH more concerned with the safety of our children than I would be concerned about whether my neighbor's landscapers were in the country legally or not.

This should be all the evidence that people need to finally realize that this man is a racist who uses his position to further his xenophobic agenda while caring little for the most vulnerable among the citizens in his county.

Well it is certainly a good thing that none of the current GOP candidates were dumb enough to accept an endorsement from this weasel. What? Oh that's right.

"Sheriff Joe endorsed me! This is going to work out great for me!"


26 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:38 AM

    Speaking of scummy guys...

    Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is trying to work up the nerve to ask Sarah Palin for an endorsement.

    http://www.omaha.com/article/20111205/NEWS01/712059914

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  2. Anonymous7:55 AM

    Didn't Sarah endorse the bad Sheriff?

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  3. Anonymous8:05 AM

    Joe would fit right in at Penn State.

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  4. So why, when I look at that picture of him with the pink panties, do I think he'd really like to put them on?

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  5. Anonymous8:28 AM

    I live in Arizona. Arpaio is an idiotic embarassment and needs to go. The voters have already rid us of Russell Pearce, Governor Brewer needs to be next along with this clown.

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  6. Anonymous8:31 AM

    It is so clear to me that the good Sheriff is a publicity hound. He cares nothing about law and order or protecting the vulnerable in society. He wants coverage for himself. And the media has accomidated him. EVERYONE knows about the pink underwear and prisoners living in "tent cities". What a sham. I can't believe the citizens ELECT this guy.

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  7. angela8:40 AM

    Anyone who would be involved with Arpaio will get scum on them. None of this comes as a surprise.
    Catching pedophiles and rapist just isn't in the books
    for old Joe. He's too busy "investigating" the President, humiliating brown people and hobnobbing with the idiot Perry to do his job.

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  8. Glad to see him coming under scrutiny. I never understood why he was given almost mythic status as a heroic law-and-order figure.

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  9. Anonymous8:49 AM

    Serpent's Heart: I thought The Bad Sheriff endorsed our Sow-ah.

    Hey-- does anyone see a link? She wanted people who had been raped to pay for their own rape kits. . . he botched up rape investigations. Women and children must be ASKING to be raped simply by existing and being so attractive to rapists! It's the evangelical Christian way, you betcha!

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  10. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Sarah/Todd & Sheriff are BFF's

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  11. Anonymous8:57 AM

    As Anonymous 7:38 said:

    Speaking of scummy guys....

    Here is video of Chuck Todd interviewing via phone an extremely irritated, condescending, egomaniac, still talking 'birther', Rat Haired Combovered Donald Trump. The visual would have been good to see too. This will keep the Foxhole Romney interview in the news too as pundits will converse and compare how irritated Rethugs are.

    He still hangs out there that if he doesn't like the GOP selection - he'll run. Yearightsure.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#45552232

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  12. Anonymous9:15 AM

    O/T to watch Trump interview on MSNBC this morning - I wish someone who grow a set when Trump starts spewing his birther crap. They should check the date when he said he had investigators go to Hawaii and ask him what they have produced as Trump has made reference in the past that they've found info.

    Grow a set MSM -- ask the moron.

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  13. Anonymous9:17 AM

    Hey Gryphen here is a picture you should add as an update. Btw Pearce writes racist laws like SB1070 and was just thrown out on his ass by a recall. Arpiao's recall is next up. Sarah has quit and can't be recalled.

    azstarnet.com/image_13345062-de28-11df-96f5-001cc4c002e0.html

    Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, holds son Trig Palin, as she stands with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, left, and Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, second from left, as Palin was the surprise guest at a Tea Party Express rally that drew about 1,000 people at the Arizona Capitol today in Phoenix.

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  14. Anonymous9:19 AM

    Sounds like John McCain is worried that the Dems are going to take over AZ in the upcoming election. They need to as they currently have a sorry ass lot of Repubs in all their major political spots to include John McCain. Don't know how he got re elected. Their governor is a piece of work too.

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  15. Anonymous9:35 AM

    Sheriff Joe knows that boys will be boys, and

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  16. Anonymous9:41 AM

    To add to the Anon posts of Trump, it appears his ego is feeling neglected.

    In Trump's new book, he's taking credit for making Lady Gaga a big star.

    http://www.newser.com/story/134722/donald-trumps-new-book-lady-gaga-is-huge-because-of-me.html

    Hell - we just got rid of one clown on Saturday and this clown crawls out from under his rock. Good for the comics & late night shows -- keeps them in material!!

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  17. Anonymous9:52 AM

    This is how much attention these low knowledge Baggers pay to people.

    The following is a tween I just read which is self-explanatory and confirms my first statement:

    "I think @THEHermanCain shlda taken notes frm @SarahPalinUSA in reacting to press-SP nvr publicly whined or commented on attacks."

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  18. Anonymous9:58 AM

    I never made the connection until now, but the teacher who hurt me (and I know he lost his license in Texas for having an "affair" with a 14 year old student) - he moved from Texas to Arizona.

    And guess where in Arizona? You got it!!

    This really makes me wonder what the heck is going on there?

    I mean, I don't want to be all conspiracy theory - but it is just too weird of a connection.

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  19. Anonymous10:02 AM

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, maybe they're not telling the whole story here and maybe old Joe is getting a bad rap? Just consider this: If the little girl was a black or Hispanic and the rapist was a white man then that puts a different shade on things. That would be reason enough for Joe to not follow up on the allegations and therefore it would turn out to be a positive for Perry. You have to think like a rightist hater in order to understand them and finally drive the stake through it's, their evil hearts. Now let's revisit those allegations in fairness to Joe.

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  20. Anonymous3:47 PM

    A local newspaper The East Valley Tribune won a 2009 Pulitzer prize for covering this in 2008.

    Link to the award winning story.

    www.pulitzer.org/archives/8377

    Every one of the uninvestigated and bungled crimes has at least one victim. Here is an example of one of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office 'investigations' as reported by the East Valley Times.

    CLOSED CASE

    Employees were preparing to close the 99 Cent Discount Store in El Mirage on Aug. 20, 2006, when a teenage girl ran inside.

    Agitated and refusing to leave, the 15-year-old girl told the store's manager that two men had just raped her in a ditch outside, a police report says.

    Paramedics took the girl to Del E. Webb Hospital in Sun City West, where medical staff found physical evidence of sexual assault, according to deputy chief Bill Knight, head of the sheriff's central investigations, who researched the case.

    At midnight, a detective from the MCSO's special victims unit arrived at the hospital to begin an investigation, the report says.

    But the investigation never really began.

    The MCSO closed the case a month later by designating it "exceptionally cleared," which is supposed to be applied to cases where a suspect is known and there's enough evidence to make an arrest but circumstances prevent an arrest. That designation allows the MCSO to count the case in the same reporting category as investigations that end in arrest.

    But in this case, the detectives didn't have a suspect and appear to have done no work on the case.


    More details of this crime.

    When officers arrived, the girl retraced the series of events.

    "As my flashlight lit up a tree just to the east of the dumpster she said, 'Right there by that tree,'" El Mirage officer Phillip Witte Jr. wrote in his report.

    The officers transferred the case to the MCSO's special victims unit once the girl arrived at the hospital for examination. A detective showed up, but the case file does not reflect that he did anything else. Knight, who followed up on a number of cases brought to his attention by the Tribune, including this one, also found that no investigation was done and the case was closed just a month after the assault while they were still waiting for DNA analysis to come in.

    In May, an El Mirage detective called a sergeant with the MCSO's investigations bureau to determine what happened with the case. "The report was x-cleared but he did not know when or why," the town's detective wrote.

    To "exceptionally clear" a criminal investigation, MCSO detectives must have identified a suspect, but cannot make an arrest due to "technicalities," the agency's policy says. Those technicalities include uncooperative victims or if the statute of limitations for the crime has expired.

    But in this case the detectives did not have a suspect.


    Read the whole story to see what what has been going on in Arizona.
    Who has Sarah been palling around with? Sheriff Joe.

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  21. Anonymous4:02 PM

    Sheriff Joe says he's sorry. He is still not sure if there were any victims. Well Sheriff Joe- the real victims would be those victimized because criminals were left to continue molesting and raping and robbing. This happened because for some reason the MCSO was too busy doing other things rather than their actual job of investigating real crimes and arresting real criminals.

    http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/12/sheriff_joe_arpaio_apologizes.php

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch.

    "Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff's office)," Arpaio said during a press conference today, as tweeted by Arizona Republic reporter Yvonne Wingett Sanchez just now. "If there were any victims, I apologize."


    Whether or not Sheriff Arpaio thinks there are any victims, he isn't going to throw any of his subordinates under the bus for this. His words.

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  22. Anonymous5:42 PM

    Stupid people are a waste of skin. Didn't Bearstool buy a house in that county? And wasn't Sarah and Todd big pals of the sheriff? Scumbag seems to nice of a word to describe him. Maybe Santorum would be more fitting, especially if he's wearing the pink boxers.



    Reading the link 3:47 gave made my flesh crawl.

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  23. Anonymous6:28 PM

    Hopefully he'll be wearing his lovely pink jail outfits when he's convicted for his crimes against other people.

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  24. Anonymous6:40 PM

    Arpaio defended Palin's use of crosshair targets on the SarahPAC website after the Gabrielle Gifford assassination attempt that killed 6 people.

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  25. Anonymous8:26 PM

    Joe Miller needs a job. Maybe he can
    get a job defending Arpaio. Joe may need help soon to keep his job. They are buddies and fellow grifters- see the three Joes fundraiser.

    First arrest all the reporters and then build a East German fence. Or is it the other way around?

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