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USANews版 - Feds: Ariz. Sheriff Joe violates Latinos' civil rights
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By msnbc.com staff and wire service reports
Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST
The U.S. government said Thursday that the man who called himself the
toughest sheriff in America ran an office that has committed wide-ranging
civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial
profiling and heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged
complaints.
The U.S. Justice Department's expert on measuring racial profiling called it
the most egregious case he has seen, the department's civil rights division
chief told reporters.
The scathing report on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, obtained by The
Associated Press ahead of its release, marks the federal government's
harshest rebuke of a man who rose to national prominence for his immigration
crackdowns. Republican presidential candidates have competed for his
endorsement.
Ross D. Franklin / AP
Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio is accused by the Department of
Justice of committing wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos.
(Read the full Department of Justice letter here.)
Arpaio has long denied the racial profiling allegation. His office did not
immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment.
After the report was released, the Department of Homeland Security announced
it would cut ties with Arpaio.
Secretary Janet Napolitano, formerly Arizona's governor, said the department
is ending an agreement with the Maricopa County sheriff's office that
allowed trained deputies to enforce immigration laws. It's also restricting
the office's use of the Secure Communities program, which uses fingerprints
collected in local jails to identify illegal immigrants.
Arpaio, 79, has built his reputation on jailing inmates in tents and
dressing them in pink underwear, selling himself to voters as unceasingly
tough on crime and pushing the bounds of how far local police can go to
confront illegal immigration.
Apart from the civil rights investigation, a federal grand jury has been
investigating Arpaio's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since
at least December 2009. His department allegedly has misspent county money
and failed to adequately investigate more than 400 sexual-abuse cases, many
involving illegal immigrants, The New York Times reported.
The civil rights report will require Arpaio to set up effective policies
against discrimination that a judge would monitor for compliance. Arpaio
faces a Jan. 4 deadline for saying whether he wants to work out an agreement
. If not, the federal government will sue him and let a judge decide the
complaint.
In a press conference Thursday, Thomas Perez, the head of the U.S. Justice
Department's civil rights division, said the department's expert on
measuring racial profiling called the case the most egregious case of racial
profiling in the country that he has seen or reviewed in professional
literature.
The civil rights report criticized the sheriff's office for launching
immigration patrols, known as "sweeps," based on complaints that Latinos
were merely gathering near a business without committing crimes.
Mark Ralston / Getty Images
An illegal immigrant is processed by deputies working for Maricopa County
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, after an operational sweep in Phoenix on July 29, 2010.
The report said Latinos are four to nine times more likely to be stopped in
traffic stops in Maricopa County than non-Latinos. Deputies on the immigrant
-smuggling squad stop and arrest Latino drivers without good cause, the
investigation found.
A review found that 20 percent of traffic reports handled by Arpaio's
immigrant-smuggling squad from March 2006 to March 2009 were stops — almost
all involving Latino drivers — that were done without reasonable suspicion
. The stops rarely led to smuggling arrests.
Latinos who were in the U.S. legally were arrested or detained without cause
during the sweeps, according to the report.
Illegal immigrants accounted for 57 percent of the 1,500 people arrested in
the 20 sweeps conducted since January 2008, according to figures provided by
Arpaio's office.
The civil rights report also found that police supervisors often used county
accounts to send emails that demeaned Latinos to colleagues. One email had
a photo of a mock driver's license for a fictional state called "Mexifornia."
Federal investigators also focused heavily on the language barriers in
Arpaio's jails.
Latino inmates with limited English skills were punished for failing to
understand commands in English by being put in solitary confinement for up
to 23 hours a day.
Detention officers refused to accept forms requesting basic daily services
and reporting mistreatment when the documents were completed in Spanish, and
they pressured Latinos with limited English skills to sign forms that
implicated their legal rights without language assistance.
Arpaio is one of Arizona's leading Republicans an recently endorsed Texas
Gov. Rick Perry's bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
The Arizona Democratic Party on Thursday, said, "It's hard to imagine a
public official who more embodies corruption, waste and arrogance than
Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We welcome the Justice Department's full attention to
this case and hope it helps mainstream Arizona move on from Arpaio's
extremism and embrace a new era of responsible leadership."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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glad this joe guy is still alive, not running down by the guns that the
obama doj, traitor eric holder gave to mexican drug lords through fast and
furious operation.

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【在 B**W 的大作中提到】
: By msnbc.com staff and wire service reports
: Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST
: The U.S. government said Thursday that the man who called himself the
: toughest sheriff in America ran an office that has committed wide-ranging
: civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial
: profiling and heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged
: complaints.
: The U.S. Justice Department's expert on measuring racial profiling called it
: the most egregious case he has seen, the department's civil rights division
: chief told reporters.

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