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Arpaio is a lunatic who sometimes has good ideas, but even then implements them in screwy ways.
The courts have had to stomp all over him for mistreatment of prisoners both pre and post-conviction.
The worst problem is that by numerous appearances, he's as corrupt as the day is long.
The classic example of all this coming together was when the Phoenix New Times did some digging into his real estate holdings. Basically, the guy has a lot more property than can be accounted for by his (stated) income. When they published the complete list, he tried to prosecute the reporters for "exposing where he lived on the Internet" (the online version of the paper).
The county attorney is one of his best friends and supported this insanity.
Basically, the moment we get an honest county attorney (who would be called a "DA" in any other state), "good ol' Joe" is going to have to move to Costa Rica with his ill-gotten gains.
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If he's a lunatic then how does he get re-elected? I understand he been sheriff for several years. Mistreatment of prisoners? Unless he's doing some pretty bad stuff to them then that's probably a bunch of nonsense. I don't know about his real estate holdings. Maybe he inherited it.