The “saturation patrols” must be working:
In an April 4 letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Mayor Phil Gordon asked the agency and the Justice Department’s civil rights division to examine what he called discriminatory harassment and improper stops, searches, and arrests by sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, which encompasses the metropolitan area.
“Over the past few weeks, Sheriff Arpaio’s actions have infringed on the civil rights of our residents,” Gordon wrote. “They have put our residents’ well-being, and the well-being of law enforcement officers, at risk.”
Justice Department officials said they would review Gordon’s letter but declined to comment further.
Arpaio said it’s ironic that Gordon wrote the letter the same day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials observed his deputies arresting residents and illegal immigrants in the town of Guadalupe and approved of the sheriff’s work.
“I think the mayor is disconnected from the people he represents and he doesn’t get the point,” Arpaio said Saturday. “Now he’s going to Washington to confuse the issue and try to get the public against me.”
The mayor “is degrading my office and my deputies by insinuating that they’re violating all these civil laws. We don’t profile,” the sheriff said.
In the past month, sheriff’s deputies and trained volunteers have gone into neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations, stopping people for routine traffic violations and asking some of them about their immigration status. Dozens of illegal immigrants have been detained.
ICE officials say Arpaio is not violating the formal agreement he has with their office that allows sheriff’s deputies to enforce immigration laws.
Yeah, the Mayor and the Chief, err I mean the Phoenix Director of Public Safety (He’s double dipping the system, Collecting his pension from being chief while getting a salary for being Director, a position that didn’t exist before he retired.) have refused to do a damn thing about illegal aliens and have in fact prevented their line officers from even calling ICE when they believe a suspect is here illegally. It has the Phoenix police union members mad as hell because that policy has lead to the death of a number of officers murdered by illegal aliens criminals. The head of the union came out last week and dropped a dime the size of a man hole cover on the Mayor and his crony. He spilled the beans on how illegal aliens effect the murder rates in the city. 60% of all murder victims are Hispanic and half of those are killed by illegal aliens. In other words, a minimum of 30% of the murders in Phoenix annually are committed by illegal aliens. The numbers of non Hispanics killed by illegal aliens wasn’t released. He was demonstrating how the Hispanic community takes the brunt of the violence related to the illegal alien issue. Likewise, he gave the kidnapping numbers for Phoenix with a VERY high percentage being (around 90% if I remember correctly) Hispanic, an estimation that fully 2/3 of the kidnappings that occur are not reported, and that most of the kidnappings are conducted by illegal aliens. You can probably find the exact information on the KFYI website. The Police union (PLEA) president put all of this information out on the Bruce Jacobs show last week.
There is a reason why Sheriff Joe is running these round ups. People are asking him to because the City administration is handcuffing the police when it comes to stopping the illegal aliens in their criminal pursuits. Sheriff Joe has bagged and tagged a LOT of illegal aliens this past month with decent a percentage of them with criminal arrest warrants issued for them. He got over 50 with arrest warrants out for them in something like 3 days earlier this month.
This pos Gordon sounds like he’s pandering to the illegals and their supporters instead of enforcing the law and doing what is best for residents.
Now Sheriff Joe, imo the best Sheriff in America, has to take the lead and do what needs to be done because these other political dipshits, like Gordon, won’t.
Sheriff Joe was reelected last time with something like 82% of the vote.
I read that the mayor of phoenix attempted to have a place there where illegal aleins could line up and look for jobs now the scumbag wants to have JOE ARPIO investigated maybe the ciztizens of phoenix need to recall that jerk mayor and deport him to mexico to stay he is pandering to illegal aleisn and their illegal supporters:-w
Joe Arpaio for President!!!
The only reason why , as JD Haworth calls him Filmstrip Phil, Gordon is still mayor is because he managed to get the last election conveniently held on 9/11. For some reason most of the Republican voters were busy elsewhere.
This why i will never go to arizona.No wonder all smart people live in blue states.