Sheriff Joe Arpaio is his name. Good thing is, he's in his 70's (i think mid-late), so he can't possibly last much longer as Sheriff. Maybe one more term?
He does win big every time. But that's probably because 90 percent of the valley isn't patrolled by Sherrif Joe's boys. It's usually in the smaller towns like Ftn. Hills and such that they patrol. (So he patrols those little areas and then also is in charge of the jail/prison facilities) I've seen them on other streets, but it's like once a year. So in other words, you have a bunch of people that elect someone that they never really run into. This imo allows him to be a complete donkey to a select few people and terrorize them, but it has only limited negative effect on his popularity. Think of it like Shaq's free throws. Even if he hits 100 percent the rest of the year, his career average will still suck. So basically Sherrif Joe and his boys can violate everybody's rights they run into, and it'll only impact a few percent of the population, and thus he gets elected time after time.
He is imo the worst civil rights offender in the nation, not on the federal level. You're supposed to protect and serve the public, not terrorize them. He's all into the mind games of power, and it's just so sick and twisted imo....and you can tell he gets his jollies from doing so to. (it's all over his nonverbal communication)
It's just so funny how he looks the other way from all of what I've read on his own people, and even himself, but he treats everyone in his jail no matter the crime like they are murderer's looking to kill anyone in sight.
Tent city is a crime against humanity. Especially in our heat.
He is the type to forget the laws and try to bust everyone just so you get one extra jaywalker on a saturday afternoon.
I remember when I was 18, I still had friends in high school. One of my friends I took to a homecoming dance (girl ofc lol), and the dance got out at like midnight. On the way home, we were pulled over for one of the license plate lights being out (lame). Since she wasn't 18 they gave her a curfew ticket. On the way home from a hs dance. A sanctioned event. Not to mention, the guy was giving me the third degree, like I was trying to prey upon her. She was a friend, nothing more, nothing desired to be more. But that's what you get from these guys. Obviously I haven't met everyone, so I won't lump them all into one category, but generally speaking, it seems he only tries to hire the hard line type of person.
I've actually never seen one of his posse actually be legit. They all act as hard as drill Sargeants (sp), happy about having a gun and some power. But again, I'm sure I haven't met 90 percent of them, so yeah. But I can compare and contrast my experiences with actual city police departments...and although every police force has it's over the top people, I've actually met nice ones in the various city departments.
The use of red-light cameras is such bull. When the first ones appeared in Scottsdale I did a couple of college papers on them. It's a cash grab, nothing else. Saves lives, puhleeze. I wonder how many crashes occurred because someone slammed on the breaks during heavy traffic when they saw they hadn't noticed the speed camera until they were right up on it....the deaths on the 101, remember those weren't from speeding, they were from cars going into oncoming traffic. Which for the most part ceased when they added the temporary barriers, and now with the permanent ones they never occur again. But ofc, they try to act like it's the cameras that cause the reduction. I can't remember the number but it was an insane amount of people they caught for speeding on the 101 with those cameras once they turned them on.
It's gotten to the point where people are vandalizing the things, spray painting them, putting stickers on them, en masse. So as you can see, it actually creates crime. Also if you are speeding big time over, they'll arrest you, even though no cop ever saw you speed.
They'll send basically P.I.'s over to serve you if you try to ignore that speeding ticket, which is just asinine imo.
Same thing with Red light cameras, you see people slam on the breaks in front of you all the time, even though it would be 10x safer just to have them run the red light by .1 of a second.
Just wait, it won't be long until they have the cameras everywhere, and catching everything. Not using turn signals, etc, etc. It's not hard they are already working on cameras that look at a person's face and tries to determine if they are about to engage in criminal actions and such. I mean it's really getting Orwellian.
Blood alcohol isn't a perfect measure, even if you could accurately measure it. Tolerance comes into play. Think of a 21 year old woman that doesn't drink. Two beers might not get her to the limit, but she may be 10x as drunk as a 220 pound guy that blew a .08. But only he gets busted, she won't.
The real way is probably to measure the release of endorphins in the brain. It's the brain chemistry that will lead to accuracy, not blood alcohol level. As each body will absorb and brain be influenced by alcohol in different ways. The real only way to be fair is make it a .000 limit. When an endorphin test is invented, it would be the fair way.
Of course people say blood, but there are times where you alcohol level hasn't peaked. You can take 5 shots in 5 minutes, and drive (ofc don't) and be sober until it hits you an hour or two later, but by the time you get to the station your BAC has gone over the limit. These people should NOT be charged, but they will be.
Again I'm not one who wants 1000 laws restricting our freedom just because one girl jaywalked and died 20 years ago. Basically that's where we are headed, and it's just sick.
Of course we also have for-profit prisons that need to be filled, so we have to fill them some way so somebody can make 2 cents dividend on the shares. I remember one of my friends half brother was shipped off to Texas to a private prison. An Arizona prisoner, with family in Arizona, with the crimes committed in Arizona, and a debt to Arizona, served out his term hundreds maybe even close to a thousand miles away. That's so wrong on so many levels.
Not to mention all the waste spent on these extra laws adds an entire level of bureaucracy on everything, which in turn makes everything less efficient and more expensive. (not to mention clogging the courts up)
It's not about justice and keeping law and order anymore. It's about fear, power, and profit. Anyways back to how it relates to the Suns.
I remember JC used to have a 24 hour limo service on call for Suns players if they got drunk. Hopefully Sarver kept that, and let Richardson know for next time.