Should Cops Be Able to Use Drones Without a Warrant?

Earlier this week, we told you about the proposed bill that would make it illegal for cops to use drones to gather information without a search warrant.House Bill 2574 is very similar to bills being proposed in several other states, although the legislators proposing the Arizona edition happen to be…

Joe Arpaio and Steven Seagal Star as Complete Asses on the Colbert Report

Please reset the “days without an Arizona-related Comedy Central news segment” counter back to zero.Thanks to Sheriff Joe Arpaio taking this weekend to exploit dead children by inviting the media and a pseudo-celebrity to a simulated school shooting, Arpaio and Steven Seagal were featured on yesterday’s edition of the Colbert…

Arizona Bill Would Criminalize Shootin’ After Drinkin’

If you’re looking for evidence that some city slickers have made their way into the state Legislature, look no further than House Bill 2631.The bill, sponsored almost entirely by Democrats, would make it a felony to negligently shoot a gun with a blood-alcohol level of drunk-driving caliber — .08…

Arizona Bill Would Ban Police Use of Drones Without a Warrant

A handful of Republican state legislators are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for cops to use drones to gather information without a search warrant.House Bill 2574, proposed by some of the black-helicopter-phobes at the Leg’ — including Representative Carl Seel and Senator Judy Burges — actually says…

Jan Brewer’s Not Changing Her Tune on Driver’s Licenses for DREAMers

After three weeks of thinkin’, Governor Jan Brewer’s finally figured out what she’s going to do about her order denying driver’s licenses for deferred action beneficiaries — nothin’.Brewer’s August order says that participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program do not have “any lawful or authorized status and does not…

Is Joe Arpaio Responsible for MCSO’s Bungled Sex-Crime Investigations?

Valley media outlets have started to take in the 10,000 page, $5,000 internal-affairs report from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on its hundreds of bungled sex crimes.Based on several accounts of the report’s summary, the specific sex-crimes detectives involved weren’t pegged with all the blame. Understaffing is cited as a…

Is Steven Seagal a Certified Doofus?

If you’re not a fan of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse, then get a load of what Arpaio kiss-ass Steven Seagal thinks about you.”Anybody who has criticized me or the sheriff for standing up to help the children, in my opinion, is an embarrassment to the human race,” Seagal said…