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Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia - regarding a Federal class action suit against Arpaio
In his September 2009 deposition in the case, Arpaio testified he had never read the complaint in the case, was unfamiliar with the details of the allegations of racial profiling therein, didn't know the content of the 14th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution, and had never read the
Department of Justice's guidelines concerning the use of race in investigations, which would have applied to his deputies in the field when they were still operating under a
287(g) program agreement with U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He insisted, however, that his deputies didn't profile based on ethnicity or race.
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In a December 2011 order, Judge Snow sanctioned Arpaio and the MCSO for acknowledged destruction of records in the case.
[138][139][140] Judge Snow also stated:
"Sheriff Arpaio has made public statements that a fact finder could interpret as endorsing racial profiling, such as stating that, even lacking
287(g) authority, his officers can detain people based upon 'their speech, what they look like, if they look like they came from another country'... Moreover, he acknowledges that MCSO provides no training to reduce the risk of racial profiling, stating 'if we do not racial profile, why would I do a training program?'"
[129] Judge Snow expanded the complaint into a
class-action lawsuit, including all Latino drivers stopped by the Sheriff's Office since 2007, or who will be stopped in the future. He also enjoined the MCSO and all of its officers from "detaining any person based only on knowledge or reasonable belief, without more, that the person is unlawfully present within the United States, because as a matter of law such knowledge does not amount to a reasonable belief that the person either violated or conspired to violate the Arizona human smuggling statute, or any other state or federal criminal law."
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No training, didn't know the 14th amendment, never read the DOJ guide about race.....that is classic Joe.
Joe operated outside what he was authorized to do. That was the problem. From the same link:
On December 15, 2011, the Justice Department released their findings after a 3-year investigation of Arpaio's office amid complaints of
racial profiling and a culture of bias at the agency's top level. The report stated that under Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" that "reaches the highest levels of the agency."
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The Justice Department accused Arpaio of engaging in "unconstitutional policing" by unfairly targeting Latinos for detention and arrest, and retaliating against critics.
[186] In the report, a Justice Department expert concluded that Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history.
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Based on the Justice Department report on discriminatory policing practices within the MCSO, on December 15, 2011, the
United States Department of Homeland Security revoked the MCSO's federal authority to identify and detain illegal immigrants.
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