Arizona sheriff's office misused millions set aside to remedy racial profiling

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/arizona-sheriffs-office-maricopa-county

Report reveals Maricopa county spent huge sums on items not connected to court-ordered overhaul of agency

The sheriff’s office for metro Phoenix spent millions of dollars budgeted for compliance costs in a racial profiling case over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns on things that had little or nothing to do with a court-ordered overhaul of the agency, according to an expert’s report.

The report released on Wednesday criticized the use of compliance money by the Maricopa county sheriff’s office to fund personnel costs and tasks, either in part or in full, that are not connected to the overhaul.

It also pointed out inappropriate spending: $2.8m for surplus body-worn camera licenses that went beyond the court’s orders; $1.5m in renovations in the relocation of an internal affairs office; over $1.3m to buy 42 vehicles; and an $11,000 golf cart to bring staff from headquarters to the internal affairs operation, even though the department was leasing parking space at the latter location.

For over a decade, Maricopa county taxpayers have picked up the bill for remedying constitutional violations found in a 2013 profiling verdict over then sheriff Arpaio’s traffic patrols targeting immigrants.

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The report concluded 72% of the $226m in spending by the sheriff’s office from February 2014 to late September 2024 was either wrongly attributed or “improperly prorated” to a compliance fund.

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1. Hasnt Satan called Joe A. home yet?

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2. The "Peter Principle" - the shits keep rising to the top of the cesspool.

The rot that took over the republicons is now sewer gas (or for the trumps - swamp gas).