i love Sheriff Joe

[Lady Cop]

and i'm going to get some of these! hahahaha




By Associated Press, Monday, July 11
PHOENIX — The Arizona sheriff famous for making prisoners wear pink underwear is introducing a Spanish-language version of the shorts he sells to the public.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio began issuing pink underwear to inmates more than 15 years ago to cut down on theft. He began selling them to the public after speaking about them on national television.

The versions that went on sale Monday are imprinted with “Vamos Jose!” The original shorts, also $15, feature a sheriff’s star and a “Go Joe” logo.

[Red_velvet71]

Hahaha.........Go Joe! I love it.

[Lady Cop]

hahaha you degenerate perverts can get some sweet pink cuffs too.

i'm getting the crime never pays tee-shirt.

thanks for the catalog link Tiki!







http://www.pinkunderwear.com/catalog.php

[BlueTiki]

Joe's got his DUI Tent City guests out picking up trash, today.

Nothing we haven't seen in the past. Downtown area . . .

But the members of this crew have a twist and the news media is hyping the appearance of protestors.

This gang consists entirely of illegals caught driving drunk. Joe is making them serve their time BEFORE turning them over to ICE for deportation.

Civil Rights groups are claiming this is exploitation of these unfortunates.

Funny thing . . . the chain-gangs consist ONLY of volunteers. Inmates are not forced to participate. Including this gang, too.

Borracho pendejos! Viva Joe!

BTW - No protestors . . . yet.

[Lady Cop]

another one of my favorite Sheriffs won't give them any underoos!



POLK COUNTY, Fla. – It could get a little drafty for the male population of the Polk County Jail starting in August.

In an effort to cut costs, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced Thursday that the jail will no longer supply free underwear to male inmates who are booked into the jail.

In a budgetary brief <----hahaha to the media and county commission, Polk County Sheriff said that beginning August 1^st, male inmates will no longer be issued the standard 5 pair of briefs. They will instead be asked to purchase them from the jail for $2.54 for briefs or $4.48 for the less constricting option, boxers.

According to Sheriff Judd, the move will save $45,000 a year in operating costs. "(That's) one person’s job we’re saving," Judd said. "If inmates want to wear underwear in jail, they can buy it, just like hard working Polk County citizens do,” says Sheriff Judd.

Women inmates will continue to receive 5 pair of underwear.

[Lady Cop]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHERIFF JOE! I WORE MY PINK SHIRT TODAY









AZCentral
For all the worksite raids, immigration sweeps and animal-cruelty cases that have made Sheriff Joe Arpaio one of the most notorious and popular figures in Arizona history, it likely will be a compound of military-style tents housing more than 1,000 inmates that is his lasting legacy.

The compound in southwest Phoenix has housed more than 500,000 people - including a handful of celebrities and corporate executives in addition to more common criminals - since it opened in the summer of 1993. Arpaio will commemorate its 18^th year in operation with a "celebration" today, though few who live there will likely want to join the party.

"This is hard time," said Corrine Welling, a jail inmate who has also served time in the state Department of Corrections' tents.

"You get doors on those tents, you get cable, you get AC," Welling said of the state facilities. Arpaio's facilities are the bare minimum - including no air-conditioning.

"When we're here, it's a deterrent and we say we're not going to come back, but everyone's got their own thing on the outside," Welling said. "You get wrapped up in it again, and you don't think about this."

In many ways, the compound is the ultimate reflection of Arpaio, the controversial five-term county sheriff who is often accused of valuing publicity more than prudent law-enforcement policy. Tent City was a fresh idea when first proposed, bringing with it a combination of austerity and retribution that appealed to Arpaio's supporters. It has since survived riots, inmate deaths, lawsuits and legal challenges as it has come to epitomize Arpaio.

Some of the sheriff's critics can't believe the tent compound is still around, much like the sheriff himself.

"It surprises me it's lasted as long as it has. It's not delivered any of its promises except for publicity," said Phoenix attorney Mike Manning, who has fought numerous legal battles with the Sheriff's Office and won millions in settlements and jury verdicts for former inmates.

"When I've said these types of things before Arpaio is quick to say that I and others want to coddle criminals. The issue isn't that at all. In our country the constitutional and the humane punishment of criminals is to deny them their freedom, imprison them and try to rehabilitate them," Manning said. "There is no entity in our country where it's permitted to punish people by unnecessarily creating pain, and he goes out of his way to unnecessarily create pain and he relishes it. He advertises it. He boasts about it."

The facility might have drawn praise when it opened, but the concept of housing inmates in tents was not without pitfalls.

Hundreds of inmates rioted at the facility in 1996 after a detention officer sprayed an inmate with pepper spray when the inmate used the restroom without permission. The disturbance went on for five hours and left eight sheriffs employees injured and caused more than $100,000 in damage.

Nearly three years later, a similar scenario unfolded when 200 inmates hurled rocks at officers, lit tents on fire and toppled portable toilets.

Arpaio deemed the second event a "disturbance," and says today that only two riots more than a decade ago add up to a positive track record.

"With 1.3 million people (who) come through the jails and I'm supposed to run the toughest jail in the universe, and (so then) where are all the riots?" Arpaio asked. "Big deal. That's a positive thing - only one."

Whether they were riots or disturbances, the events led to changes in Tent City, said Jack MacIntyre, an Arpaio deputy chief who noted that the deputies installed a portable watch tower and an additional fence, and also increased patrols around the tents.

The inmates who live in the tents have all been sentenced to less than one year in jail for their crimes and must be classified as minimum- or medium-security risks.

Everyone in Tent City has to work either on a chain gang, in one of the jail-support facilities such as the kitchen, or at jobs in the community through work-release and furlough programs. Those who choose not to work are housed in traditional jail cells.

For many, the chance to get outside of jail for a few hours a day is enough motivation to suffer through the hot summer months in the tents, where temperatures can reach 145 degrees underneath the canvas.

Lucas Jones, 37, is in the middle of a four-month sentence in the tents, but he goes to Bartlett Lake twice a week with other inmates as part of a program to build fish habitats, a privilege Jones said he cherishes.

"Just to get on a bus and get out of here first thing in the morning, that's wonderful," Jones said.

But with Maricopa County jail populations in the midst of a steep decline - from a high count of more than 10,000 in 2006 to an average population of about 7,500 this year - and the county jail system dotted with vacant cells and mothballed units, the overcrowding that helped launch Tent City has subsided.

Arpaio said the concept of housing inmates in tents still sends a message. He has no intention of moving the inmates to a more climate-controlled environment.

"I'm not going to close the Tent City. Why would I close it?" Arpaio said. "I do know I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say 'Thank you, sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears."

[BlueTiki]

Happy birthday, tent city!

Like Sheriff Joe says: "If the men and women who serve our country in Irag and Afghanistan live in tents and are forced to endure the heat, then criminals can, too."

I'd love it if he sold the stripes.

[cannongal]

Happy birthday, tent city!

Like Sheriff Joe says: "If the men and women who serve our country in Irag and Afghanistan live in tents and are forced to endure the heat, then criminals can, too."

I Love that quote!

[Lady Cop]

GO JOE! FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE.









(CNN) -- Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has engaged in systemic discrimination against Latinos with practices that violate federal law and the Constitution, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.

A comprehensive investigation found the practices include "unlawful stops, detentions and arrests of Latinos," according to a Justice Department statement.

It also noted that the sheriff's office has discriminated against "Latino inmates with limited English by punishing them and denying critical services."

It further blames the office for allowing "specialized units to engage in unconstitutional practices" and for a lack of oversight and deputy training.

Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said the office's "systematic disregard for basic constitutional protections has created a wall of distrust between the sheriff's office and large segments of the community."

"The problems are deeply rooted in (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office) culture, and are compounded by (its) penchant for retaliation against individuals who speak out," added Perez, who said authorities were also looking at allegations of excessive force and a deliberate failure to provide law enforcement services in select communities.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/justice/ar...?hpt=hp_t2

[Maggot]

So says Eric Holder...........

[Misguided]

I always did like this guy!
I'm gonna go see about those T-shirts.I aint a pink T-shirt kinda guy but I would wear one of these just for the attention they would get.I'll check out your link,LC!

[Lady Cop]

here are some females in jail under the watchful benevolent eyes of Sheriff Joe.
this is not forced labor, they volunteer.
it's HOT out there!
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daily mail
For the women of American's only all-female chain gang, the day starts early at 6am. After being padlocked together at the ankles of their heavy-duty work boots and dressed in the familiar striped uniform, the female inmates are put on a bus at Estrella Jail in Phoenix, Arizona and taken off to their day's hard labor.

Tasks include weeding along the highways in Maricopa County or burying unclaimed bodies at White Tanks Cemetery, in a region where temperatures soar to 100F at this time of year.

The chain gang was abandoned across the U.S. in the 1950s but reintroduced in Arizona in 1995 by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America's self-proclaimed toughest man in law enforcement.

He has been accused by the Justice Department of racially profiling Latinos and denying prisoners basic human rights by serving them rotten food and withholding drinking water.

Female prisoners must volunteer for the chain gang and many do so to break up the grinding routine of jail life. It also gets them out of lock-down, where four prisoners are kept in cells eight by 12 sq ft for 23 hours a day.

The chain gang is mainly made up of women in prison for DUI offenses and after a month of solid work, they get to move out of the cells and sleep in the comparatively better conditions of military tents next to jail's main building.

MORE PHOTOS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1zAblOUC8

[Ma Huang Sor]

DUI's on a chain gang? wtf?

Only in Arizonia.

[Lady Cop]

DUI's on a chain gang? wtf?

Only in Arizonia.

DUIs, drugs, misdemeanors. felons too much of a flight risk.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Requiring His Deputies To Carry AR-15s At All Times, Fight Crime Even When They're Off Duty


"I want all my deputies to be armed with the greatest firepower available 24 hours a day."

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona announced Thursday he will start requiring his deputies to carry AR-15s at all times and expects them to use the weapons to fight crime even when they're off duty.

“While this decision may seem controversial to some in the public and among other law enforcement agencies, I have extreme confidence in the training and professionalism of the men and women deputies in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office,” Arpaio said, according to AZ Family.

While announcing the new requirement, Arpaio noted that two of his deputies "died under violent circumstances" last year and another "was shot several times but survived."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09...31487.html

[Duchess]

Go Sheriff Joe!

[HairOfTheDog]

Go Sheriff Joe!

Love him or hate him, he certainly does it his way!

[Duchess]

LC loved him & thought more LEO's should follow his lead and I agree with her.

[Cynical Ninja]

I'd rather the cops were carrying AR-15s than Joe Blow Yankeeknacker down the street.

[HairOfTheDog]

LC loved him & thought more LEO's should follow his lead and I agree with her.

Every time I see him in the news, I'm reminded of LC.

Despite being investigated for civil rights abuses based on alleged profiling of Hispanic prisoners (though his actions appear to be upheld by Arizona-specific laws), Sheriff Joe keeps doing things his way.



From CBS today:
Dozens of inmates in Arizona jails run by Joe Arpaio, a sheriff who has been a controversial figure in the national immigration debate, have been put on a diet of bread and water for desecrating U.S. flags that hang in each cell, authorities said on Friday.

"These inmates have destroyed the American flag that was placed in their cells. Tearing them, writing on them, stepping on them, throwing them in the toilet, trash or wherever they feel," Arpaio said in a statement. "It's a disgrace to those who have fought for our country."

The punishment will last for seven days, he said, and a second offense would bring 10 more days of the sparse diet.

A sheriff's spokesman said the bread provides the daily requirement of calories and nutrients that is necessary. There are about 8,300 inmates in the jail system.