[Announce] [Peace-discuss] Another perspective on Sheriff Joe Arapaio

[Neil Parthun]

Sheriff Joe is obnoxious and grandstanding.  I mean, he just got a  
new show on Fox Reality network called "Smile, You're Under Arrest"  
to further put himself in the media limelight.

 From In These Times, "The Selma of Immigration Rights" about Sheriff  
Joe.  http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3973/ 
the_selma_of_immigration_rights/

 From Wikipedia on Sheriff Joe: From 2004 through November 2007,  
Arpaio was the target of 2,150 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and  
hundreds more in Maricopa County courts; 50 times as many prison- 
conditions lawsuits as the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and  
Houston jail systems combined.  The County has had to spend more than  
$43 million in lawsuit settlements during Arpaio's tenure.

In her book on prison policy The Use of Force by Detention Officers,  
Arizona State University criminal justice professor Marie L. Griffin  
reported on a 1998 study commissioned by Arpaio to examine recidivism  
rates based on conditions of confinement. Comparing recidivism rates  
under Arpaio to those under his predecessor, the study found "there  
was no significant difference in recidivism observed between those  
offenders released in 1989-1990 and those released in 1994-1995."

While I commend Sheriff Joe's animal adoption program, even a broken  
clock can be right twice a day.

Live hard,
      Neil

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — fear of  
poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or  
fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for  
bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp  
on vague charges of being a terrorist sympathizer.
[hunter s. thompson, 1937-2005]

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil  
obedience...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the  
world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war,  
and cruelty.
[howard zinn, 1922-]

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