Arpaio´s Racial Profiling Rampages Continue, Despite Arizona Mayors´ Pleas for Help!

As the Arizona Mayors pleas for help go unanswered, Arpaio´s Racial Profiling attacks continue. Yet, Arpaio has no apologies. He is after publicity. He welcomes the press. He says any publicity is better than no publicity.

This morning, I searched "Arpaio" on Google News, here are the latest reports.

Arpaio shirks peace with faceoff ploy
Apr. 7, 2008 12:00 AM
Just wondering: If any other ordinary citizen set up a confrontation, such as occurred when Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently set up the confrontation between immigrants and the motorcycle-club members, then invited the press, would that be considered "inciting a potential riot"? It almost looked to me like Arpaio was unhappy that no violence occurred so he could blame it on the immigrants.

Arpaio running Amok

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is pretty clearly not engaging in saturation policing for general crime suppression. Instead, he's conducting sweeps for illegal immigrants disguised as general crime suppression. It's one thing not to turn your back on illegal immigration, as most of the Valley law enforcement agencies have done. It's entirely another thing to be conducting labor-intensive manhunts for illegal immigrants. If the primary object of an exercise is to find illegal immigrants - as is clearly the case in Arpaio's saturation patrolling - then it's impossible to avoid targeting enforcement action in part on ethnicity. And that crosses a dangerous line. Part of the problem with electing law enforcement officials is that no one can hold them in check when they run amok. Arpaio thinks he is one with the people and no one, except a court, has the authority to tell him to knock it off. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's condemnation of Arpaio.

Lawless Egomaniac

The only comparison to a lawless egomaniac is reserved for one of the Valley's best-known public figures. A round of seemingly unprovoked sweeps were carried out by Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in the town of Guadalupe, stirring up outrage from immigrant and civil rights groups.Did I say unprovoked? That's the wrong word. Being an immigrant, looking like an immigrant, living among immigrants — these are three egregious provocations for Sheriff Arpaio. He is an ugly, mean, stupid idiot that likes to be on television.But back to telling jokes, though Sheriff Joe claims he was asked to carry out the roundup, Guadalupe officials deny that he was ever invited. "It's completely unwarranted," said an anonymous Guadalupe employee, who added, "Get it? 'Unwarranted.'"But "unwarranted" is not exactly the right word. Many of the arrests were just follow-ups on outstanding warrants — though the tactics used are a bit more than questionable. In many of the cases, drivers were pulled over for minor traffic violations, asked for identification and then assumed to be illegal immigrants if they could not provide a license.A similar sweep was carried out in the Palomino neighborhood in North Phoenix. While only a handful of people were arrested for being in the country illegally, thousands of dollars in business were lost, and more than 500 children were kept home from school by their parents, out of fear. Arpaio, without irony, claims the Palomino operation a success.Arpaio also insists that his actions are entirely legal — though he's certainly willing to bend the law; using ordinarily banal traffic codes to check immigration status is a fairly large leap. Sheriff Joe hopes that the laws are changed to make it easier to find illegal immigrants, like a hunter who asks that game animals be painted bright orange so that they won't be confused with an other animals.Though he has no legislative authority, Arpaio is nevertheless working on a bill — in slanted letters and poor spelling, no doubt — which will legally change the sound of his name to rhyme with "Robespierre."

Arpaio: No Racial Profiling, `I Lock Up Everybody

'April 7th, 2008 @ 6:47am - by Sandra Haros and J.W. Cox/KTAR
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's crackdown on illegal immigration may have only just begun in the East Valley, with last week's patrols in the town of Guadalupe. State lawmakers from the East Valley, led by Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, have sent the sheriff a letter inviting him to their district, and Arpaio said Mesa might be next on his list. Arpaio said he is not bothered by accusations of racial profiling that have come from protesters of his special patrols at two Phoenix locations where day laborers gather and in Guadalupe. `We got other enforcement that we are doing, not just illegal immigration," he said. ``That's just a small part of our operation... We stop everybody. I'm an equal opportunity guy. I lock up everybody."

Charles Barkley says NO to Arpaio´s Racial Profiling!

Barkley says he's frustrated that politicians won't do anything about illegal immigration, but that he admires the immigrants. `First of all, illegal immigrants are bustin' their behinds, they do the work that whites and blacks don't want to do, so that's what you've got to respect and admire," Barkley said on the Jay Lawrence Show on News/Talk 92-3 KTAR. "Asked about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's crime supression efforts in areas where illegal immigrants gather, Barkley said, ``As a black man, I don't think you can ever have racial profiling. I don't ever agree with that.''