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REAL Homeland Security
Judge Finds Grounds to Sanction Arizona Sheriff’s Office
A federal judge has found grounds for sanctioning an Arizona sheriff’s office for its acknowledged destruction of records in a lawsuit that accuses deputies of racially profiling countless Hispanics in immigration patrols.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow held off on imposing the sanctions against the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Friday ruling, but indicted he would do so at a later date once related issues were ironed out.
Since early 2008, Arpaio has run 13 immigration and crimes sweeps consisting of deputies and posse volunteers who flood an area of a city — in some cases heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders.
Yeah? So, what’s the problem? Ever been to a border state? There are a LOT of ‘heavily Latino areas’!
The handful of Latinos who filed the lawsuit against Arpaio’s office alleged that officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics who were in vehicles, had no probable cause to pull them over and made the stops so they could inquire about their immigration status.
Seriously? They weren’t speeding? Had a tail light out? Didn’t yield to oncoming traffic? Weren’t acting suspicious?
Arpaio is known for tough jail policies, including housing inmates in canvas tents, and pushing the bounds for how local law enforcement agencies can confront illegal immigration.
Again…what’s the problem? At least SOMEONE is taking the safety of the American LEGAL citizens seriously!
Peter Kozinets, one of those attorneys, said Saturday that the document destruction deprived his clients of records that would have shown deputies were selective in whom they approached during the sweeps.
Granted, there are folks who are not Hispanic sneaking into the country, and they should be dealt with as well, but in a state like Arizona? Odds are, the majority of the illegals, LAW BREAKERS, are.
The sheriff’s office said the destruction was an honest error that sprung from a top official not telling others in his office to preserve the documents.
So, some underlings got rid of some papers. I was under the impression computers were suppose to solve the problem of being buried under piles of paper, and save a few trees too. Quite the opposite is true. We shred paper all the time. 
I’m not sure about other folks, but deleting crap off the computer, especially email, is kind of the norm as well. Sure sounds to me like a witch hunt to me. But then, that’s become the norm lately too. Don’t like someone’s policies, or politics, go after them in every way possible.
Illegals are stealing identities, and this is ok? Pfft!
I honestly wish more law enforcement officers and elected officials, who took the oath, would take security as seriously as Sheriff Joe!
I’ll second that wish for more law enforcement officers and elected officials like Sheriff Joe! Of course that would probably just mean more activity for the patriotically challenged liberal judges.
Don’t ya wonder just how these yahoos minds work? Of course, if I wanted to give myself a massive headache, I’d make the effort, but there is no logic there.
Joe Arpaio for President!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only real son-of-a-bitch there is left. And lord knows we need a real SOB running the show.
Oh, indeed we do! Kill the PC BS, and get back to the basics!
Sheriff Arpaio is dialed in on the solution “enforcement” we have plenty of laws and regulations in this country. Enforcement is the key to many of the problems we face as a nation. Drugs, illegally obtained firearms, domestic violence, illegal immigration…
We don’t need more laws and politically motivated programs, we just need to enforce the laws already in place.
The man is definitely, or at least should be, a role model for every sheriff in this country.
The only reason the judge and the snivelers are after Sheriff Joe is that what he does is within the bounds of the law and the right thing to do. Right in the eyes of a majority of the citizens of The Republic.
And for warmer areas, I love his tent jail. Incarceration is not supposed to be a holiday but punishment. I would love to see this expanded to other states. And in the case of more colder climates, old quonset hut barracks would work.
WHAT? You mean it’s really suppose to be punishment? Gosh. I thought the courts said such things were “cruel and unusual”? Heh.
Quonset huts, eh? Aren’t there some closed bases that would work well for such a purpose?
Glasgow, Montana. The base was shut down by the wonderful genius of McNamara.
That’ll do!
Gets a tad nippy, too, doesn’t it. heh