With latest payout, Arizona sheriff has cost taxpayers $100M
By Associated Press -October 30, 2021 10:00 AM
Advocates for immigrants have long warned that former Sheriff Joe Arpaio should be viewed as a cautionary tale for the long-term financial obligations communities take on when they let local police officers handle immigration enforcement.
Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona's most populous county, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman's headline-grabbing tactics inspired.
Officials in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, agreed last week to pay $3.1 million to cover the county's portion of a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses.
The payout takes to $100 million the attorney fees, settlements and other costs the county has paid from lawsuits stemming from Arpaio's six terms over things such as jail deaths, failed investigations of the sheriff's political enemies and immigration raids of businesses.
https://americanindependent.com/arizona-maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaio-paul-penzone-taxpayers-lawsuits-racial-profiling-immigration/
Yepper ....so far the total cost of this BS to the state/ taxpayers of the state is around 178 Million dollars....that money could have been used for public education.....but nope they kept elected the POS based on his racists BS.....
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