Joe Arpaio Cozies Up to Latino Pastors, Prensa Hispana, and Michael Nowakowski Days Before Employer Raid (w/Update)

The Latino pastors are probably trying to get the evil out of this man.

Joe. I agree his time here should be done. 20yrs ago when i was much younger i thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. He treated criminals like criminals. He made targetted large scale efforts to put huge dents in specific areas of crime. Deadbeat dad round ups 1 week, Outlaw biker gang meth dealer round ups the next, Prostitution stings, Property crime, Human Trafficing, drug trafficing. He hit everything in very high profile targetted fashion. This initially made everyone love him. His and his agencies popularity skyrocketted. His High Risk Warrant Teams (AKA SWAT) were, and remain some of the best at what they do. It all gave people the impression that the good guys were taking it to the bad guys..and the good guys were kicking ass! It made people feel safer. However, the publicity aspect of that seems to have evolved into taking center stage. This is obviously a bad thing. And although nobody would disagree that human trafficing is inhumane and frequently goes hand in hand with drug trafficing, he now comes off to much like 'I hate Mexicans'. Im not so convinced this is actually the case but anymore it doesnt really matter. That is the perception. Its not a good thing. Joe must go. He now comes across as angry and bitter and uncompromising. Me personally, i do not want human trafficing, illegal border crossings and drug traffic and I know Joe didnt write the laws he is sworn to uphold but, there has to be a better way to resolve this than to have Mexicans coming across like they are FOR all these things and for a police agency to come across like its an opressive tyrant. Many things need to change. One of which is, Joes time has passed. He needs to go.

Rose. I agree he has turned into a complete media hound. I have seen this 1st hand. I used to volunteer for an area fire dept. He would show up to large sceens like it was a friggin parade (typically at drop houses). Im pretty sure his speaking podium travels in his trunk! haha Ironically, I live in the town where those sex crimes went uninvestigated. Sad to say, i think those cases were largely used as a pawn in a political arguement with El Mirage. Joe came unhinged when he found out El Mirage wanted to end its contract with the Sheriffs dept. Not because El Mirage felt MCSO was doing a bad job. In fact, I will tip my hat to the improvements they made around here. They assisted in getting our local police department back on track to becoming a reputable agency. The problem was that Joe was NEVER part of the initial negotiations to bring MCSO in to help. It seems he was only getting 'briefings' about the scope of that contract from his higher ups. When El Mirage anounced we would not he extending the contract, Joe was furious. It is his own people he should have been mad at. I do not know what version his higher ups had given him but it seems clear they had led Joe to believe providing daily policing services to El Mirage was going to be a more perminent arrangment. In any case, the sex crimes cases that made the news all happend around this gray period of MCSO taking over policing (and investigative) services, through their stay here, and around their departure. I never heard if Joe's version was that he thought El Mirage would pick up these investigations or not. I just know it turned into a big mess. Also, i am in NO WAY excusing these cases being pushed aside for ANY reason. But please be aware the Sheriffs Dept is so vast and complicated that the Sheriff himself cannot be aware of every single thing that goes on. Others within the agency, pehaps people so far out of the loop of the Sheriff himself that he may not even know their names could have been responsible for the ball being dropped. ie When the split between El Mirage and MCSO happend, he may have only been made aware of 4000 "active cases" going on in El Mirage and may not have been provided a breakdown of what "types" of cases they were. Obviously Joe was angry with El Mirage at the time and was not itching to do El Mirage any favors. But I just think its possible someone else within MCSO may have had more to do with it than the Sheriff himself. Being an extreme politician he would have been well aware of how dammaging something like that scandal could have become. Not to mention the MCSO's ultimate authority to ANY case that happens within its boundries. It just doesnt seem probable from any perspective that Joe would have 'intentionally' ignored 3000 cases that he KNOWS his agency would have the legal responsability to over see. I just feel bad for all those victims (many of them young) that either fell through the cracks or were caught in the middle of political wrangling. I am sure their trust in law enforcement has been rightfully shaken. :(

Rose let me correct something, Arpaio "deports" no one. Here's how it works in a nutshell. He first harnesses an immigrant, locks them up in one of his jails, if they have no criminal record they go see a judge, they then get a second court date and are released. They then have the option of going back to court or leaving the US. Or they take s chance and continue working here. But as far as Arpaio deporting anyone he doesn't have the authority. But don't get me wrong he's an asshole and needs to go away.

RESPECT ARIZONA, THE CAMPAIGN TO RECALL SHERIFF ARPAIO

Here is a list of the libraries where volunteers will have petitions to recall Sheriff Arpaio this Sunday. 

We could use your help at any of these. You can also pick up petitions to circulate on your own at any one of these six locations. Instructions are provided, and they are important.

1. Burton Barr 1221 N Central Ave

Sun: 1:00PM-5:00PM

2. Tempe 3500 S Rural Rd

Sun: 12:00PM-5:00PM

3. Palo Verde 4402 N 51st Ave

Sun: 1:00PM-3:00PM

4. South Mountain 7050 S 24th St

Sun: 1:00PM-5:00PM

Please sign the petition to recall Sheriff Arpaio, and please help us circulate these petitions.

Gary, Arpaio doesn't care at all about any of our concerns. He cares about publicity. If he cared about people and as his latest public tagline "the children" he wouldn't deport working class adults, and he would have at least made an attempt to investigate all those sex crimes, don't you think? I think the pastors had good intentions, but now it just gives Arpaio more pictures for publicity.

The current technique of "this" side vs. "that" side has had very little possative effects for EITHER side!

Hopefully an open line of communication? Perhaps a lil bit more understanding of eachothers position? Maybe a chance to get Arpio to have a more possative view of a people that from his perspective have become a thorn in his side due to human trafficing and the drug trade? To be honest, I cant think of a down side to this.

Arpaioo will croak soon (dying of old age)...he is not getting younger. I can only imagine that the Hell he is going to get is probably...being chased, dressed in pink underwear, for all eternity by Spanish speaking Hispanic-looking demons and placing him in a tent at 140 degrees every single moment. Wow...I would not to be in his shoes. 

I used to be a fervent Sunday-church-going Christian...but stunts like this convince me that this organized religion is only another way to rip off the ignorant of their hard earn money/   How can these idiots cuddle up to Arpaio?  Can someone explain me how they endorse Arpaio with inviting them to their "praying" meeting knowing that he was only days away from another raid where the most meek and humble are affected?  These Pastors are hypocrite.  God have mercy on their souls.