Sheriff Arpaio sending armed posse to protect schools
Source: Azfamily.com
"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he plans to deploy his armed volunteer posse to protect Valley schools from the kind of violence that happened in the Connecticut shooting tragedy. Arpaio believes having armed law officers around schools will deter would-be criminals from trying anything violent and, possibly, stop them if they do.
I have the authority to mobilize private citizens and fight crime in this county, Arpaio said."
Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/news/Sheriff-Arpaio-is-sending-posse-to-protect-schools-185012341.html
Holy Crap! State of AZ goes even more nuts today! Sane people are an endangered species in my state, based on the comments under the article! The Posse is made up of volunteers, not certified LEO's. These are not sworn officers, or deputies. There are problems there with liability and such.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Sheriff Joe goes for the publicity.
--imm
just more grandstanding from our nutty sherif .
modrepub
(3,496 posts)but doesn't having an armed guard at every corner sound a lot like North Korea?
Skittles
(153,169 posts)primavera
(5,191 posts)What's a police state compared to the pleasure of owning toys of mass destruction?
tblue
(16,350 posts)And all the people he's giving arms are stable and trained, right? How long before they shoot a person for walking by while being non-white?
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dwigthreeD
(18 posts)Kim Jung Arpaio...what could possibly go wrong?
underpants
(182,829 posts)Arpaio and his kind were a large part of why we won the last election so handily.
alp227
(32,033 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)cstanleytech
(26,294 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)before one of them goes off the reservation and opens up on some random brown person.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)Just sending armed 'volunteers' with no formal training into schools is so utterly stupid.
What the hell is it going to take before we come to our senses? Haven't we had enough gun deaths already?
sakabatou
(42,157 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)No such luck, I guess.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)They say Obama is making a police state.
Uh, huh, yup, yes-sir-ee, right.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)primavera
(5,191 posts)And he's already got the concentration camps to put those troublesome potential offenders into.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)It'll get him lots of publicity which he craves, but will do diddly squat to stop crimes.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)a 'Posse" eh?
...not certified LEO's. These are not sworn officers, or deputies....
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atreides1
(16,079 posts)I believe that the schools are under the control of the state and not the county, which means that the current laws pertaining to weapons are state laws...which means this group of vigilantes can't enter school property because they are not certified LEO's!
Knowing how much land that Maricopa County covers...there better be several thousand members of this "Posse"! And we have the issue of local police forces not connected to Arpaio and his goons...police forces that Arpaio has pissed on during his time as sheriff.
The man is a walking cluster fuck and possibly an embezzler...because to this day no one has ever investigated where all the money he's "saving" the county has gone.
brewens
(13,596 posts)AnnieBW
(10,429 posts)Oh, that's POSSE!!!
Never mind.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)PavePusher
(15,374 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Whatever the NRA says they do without question.