Melendres v. Arpaio Exposes Racial Profiling
Following our arrest by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County settled with us for nearly $4 million. We used this money to make substantial donations to local groups fighting for the rights of the...
View ArticleHow to Lose a Sheriff in 10 Ways
The fight to push Arpaio out of office has reached a tipping point, according to experts. Here’s how to give him a final shove. 1. Mobilize with the community. Organizations such as Puente, Promise...
View ArticleInside MCSO Officer Training Sessions
Sparked by the Melendres v. Arpaio ruling, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is retraining its staff in bias-free policing. One thought strikes you when you read the new police training documents...
View ArticleContempt Hearing Incriminates Arpaio
Facing possible criminal charges for contempt of court, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office dig themselves into a deeper hole. The Melendres v. Arpaio trial has revealed the...
View ArticleCriminal Enterprise: A Culture of Corruption Pervades Joe Arpaio’s Office,...
Posted with permission from Phoenix New Times. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers achieved what they set out to do on May 22, when they moved to have federal Judge G. Murray Snow disqualify himself from...
View ArticleArpaio Denied Summary Judgment in DOJ Case
Posted with permission from Phoenix New Times. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has lost a bid for summary judgment in the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against him, which covers much of the same ground as...
View ArticleEmotional Crowd Tells Arpaio “Get Out!”
A son lamented his father, who died in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jail. A woman broke into tears speaking about a little girl whose parents were deported by Arpaio’s officers. Others shouted, “He will fall!...
View ArticleSnow Orders Arpaio to Cough Up New Montgomery Files and 1,500 Sized IDs to...
Posted with permission from Phoenix New Times. Though not quite the “raid” that some local media depicted it as, Friday’s events were nonetheless dramatic, with United States District Court Judge G....
View ArticleCheckpoints USA
“A man complained of racial profiling after Border Patrol followed him and his family from an I-10 interior checkpoint, about 75 miles from the border, to a highway restaurant. Agents interrogated the...
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