Best Reader Caption For Joe Arpaio’s PR Puppy: shadeaux14

Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle shadeaux14, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…

ICE Dedicates 50 Officers to Maricopa Jails Following Canceled Agreement with Sheriff Arpaio; “No Gap” in Enforcement Expected

Federal authorities promised today to take up the slack in Maricopa County jails following the severing of ties with the sheriff’s office over allegations of widespread racial profiling. In a letter today to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security vowed to leave “no gap” in immigration enforcement. Fifty agents from…

Joe Arpaio’s Latest Victim: Phoenix Police Issue Statement

The following is a statement issued by Phoenix Police Department spokesman Steve Martos, regarding the arrest of Ernest “Marty” Atencio.Martos states that Atencio was arrested for assault after displaying some very odd behavior, as you’ll read. He also notes that the PPD believes its officers did not Tase Atencio. He further…

Best Reader Caption For Joe Arpaio’s PR Puppy?

Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s comeuppance ( Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.), we submitted the above photo of the sheriff and his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed our post on the sheriff shamelessly…

Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney, Asks Feds to Reinstate Immigrant Program in Jail; Skeptical of DOJ Claims Against Sheriff’s Office

​ Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery expressed skepticism today about the claims of racial profiling by the Sheriff’s Office, and demanded the return of a jail program to identify illegal immigrants. The feds announced yesterday they were canceling the 287(g) program in Maricopa County due to findings by the U.S…

Joe Arpaio’s PR Puppy in You Write the Caption

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s having a rough week — Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.To celebrate Arpaio’s comeuppance, we’re goin’ with the above photo of America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” cozyin’ up to his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed…

Joe Arpaio’s Rough Week: Is the Sheriff Finally Unelectable?

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s had a pretty rough week — aside from the Department of Justice determining that he’s guilty of the worst racial-profiling practices in U.S. history, the sheriff is still dealing with the fallout from the Associated Press’ decision to pull the old El Mirage botched sex-crime…

Joe Arpaio Hammered by Politicians, Activists Praising DOJ Report

Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling campaign against Sand Land Latinos, and praised it as a sort of Christmas…