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"Arpaio Investigation"
An investigation by KPHO-TV found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio often used his popularity as a means to "retaliate" when claims were made against him. The retaliation was often in the form of "SWAT raids" or "full-blown criminal investigations." Some of his victims included the mayor of Phoenix, Supreme Court judges and local police chiefs. KPHO found the FBI was also investigating the sheriff for "abuse of power."
Tags: Joe Arpaio; Mesa Police Chief; Mesa City Hall; Sheriff Arpaio; Department of Justice; Maricopa County
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The Ventriolquist's Dummies
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's employees, along with several out-of-state companies, contributed to a secret fund that was eventually passed on to the Arizona Republican Party. The money was then used to launch vicious attack ads against Arpaio's opponent during election season. Many of the exposed sources of funding were in violation of Arizona state law.
Tags: Joe Arpaio; Arizona Republican Party; Maricopa County Sheriff Office; David Hendershott; Joel Fox
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Reasonable Doubt
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office was found to violate federal civil rights regulations when deputies began focusing on immigration enforcement. The arrest rate plummeted and response time on life-threatening emergency calls slowed dramatically as spending soared to help crack down on illegal immigrants.
Tags: customs; Joe Arpaio; criminal investigation; Phoenix police; human smuggling
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Head on a Skewer
This story described the behind-the-scenes machinations by powerful law enforcement authorities in Maricopa County, Ariz. to secure a criminal indictment against a reporter (and a newspaper) for allegedly violating an arcane law. Mining newly released documents and other sources, the writer uncovered previously unknown information about this unprecedented and novel attack on the First Amendment.
Tags: First Amendment rights; Arizona; Joe Arpaio; , Phoenix New Times; first amendment law
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jails series
The series examined individuals who have died suspiciously while in the custody of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who proclaims himself to be "America's Toughest Sheriff." Specifically, the stories examined the death of an inmate, Juan Mendoza Farias, who entered the county jail in good health and arrived at the county morgue two days later--covered with bruises and lacerations. The series also covered ongoing federal class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU against Arpaio. During the process of that lawsuit, Arpaio lost his federal jail accreditation, which is require by Arizona law. Dickerson has been covering the lawsuit since 2007 and broke the story that the county's top lawman was himself breaking a state law by losing the accreditation of his jails. The series also investigated the care of pregnant inmates and their babies in the jail, finding that many women are malnourished and miscarry as a result of the jail conditions and food.
Tags: police misconduct; sheriff's office; pregnant inmates; prisoner abuse; Arizona
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Target Practice
A grand jury subpoena requested that all of the Phoenix New Times' notes, tapes, stories and other material regarding Sheriff Joe Arpaio since January 1, 2004 be seized. The prosecutor even demanded names of any person who visited the newspaper's website since 2004 as well. This series tells the story of the New Times' struggle against over-reaching public officials, as well as a larger story about diminishing rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Tags: Andrew Thomas; Dennis Wilenchik; freedom of speech; courts; city government; state government; law enforcement; internet; First Amendment
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Star of Justice: On the job with America's Toughest Sheriff
Harper's Magazine reports from Phoenix, Arizona, on how Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, has violated human rights in a number of cases. The story details how inmates in the county's jails are forced "to wear pink underwear... and dig graves," while put on chain gangs. The report finds that "in a city where crime and development are growing together, Arpaio had the answers that the frightened people wanted to hear." The result: "Arpaio is treated not as a politician but as a rock star." The story details how an arrested paraplegic has been put in a restraint chair for six hours and, as a result, his right arm has withered, and his anus has become ulcerated. It describes how other arrested people have been tortured and killed while in jail. The report sheds light on lawsuits that "alleged that Arpaio created and nurtured a climate that encouraged the guards to abuse inmates," and describes his political activities.
Tags: police; Amnesty International; jail; restraint chair; litigation; civil rights; lawyers; politics; fund raising; political campaigns
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made national headlines for putting inmates in tents, women on chain gangs and armed citizens in posses. His programs and public relations stunts have made "America's Toughest Sheriff" the most popular elected official in Arizona. But as the New Times discovers, Arpaio's claims rarely matched the truth. (Feb. 8 - Oct. 24, 1996)
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