'Culture Clash' Follow-up

From WarOnGuns Correspondent CDT, via email as follow-up to this post:

I had a call from Maricopa County Sheriff's Office today (quite speedy response!) and I now believe I fully understand what is going on.


MCSO has its tit in a unique wringer that other sheriffs do not.


In a class action lawsuit filed in 2007, Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres v. Arpaio, MCSO was found to have relied on racial profiling and unlawful traffic stops of Latinos. The court found that, under the direction of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office violated the constitutional rights of Latinos.

MCSO is currently under oversight by a Federal Court appointed Monitor. We are applying unprecedented financial and personnel resources to help us to achieve full and effective compliance with the court orders.


After 18 years, four different sheriff administrations and over $300 Million later, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is still under the control of a federal Judge and court-appointed monitor. The taxpayer cost is expected to reach $350 million next year. This $350M could have been used to hire more Sheriff deputies or programs to reduce crime. Instead, the money is being wasted on federal bureaucracy and red tape. Even though the Sheriff's office has adopted policies that prohibit racial profiling and there hasn't been a single corroborated claim of racial profiling during this time, which, after all, was at the core of the 2007 lawsuit, the federal monitoring continues! 

The court order requires officers to document 13 different items during every traffic stop. Even though MCSO is at or above the required 95% compliance for 3 straight years for 12 of the 13 items, the 12 successes don't count. If the Sheriff's office can't comply with 100% of the court-ordered requirements at least 94% of the time for 3 straight years, the federal monitor keeps collecting a paycheck, we keep paying rent for an entire floor of a building that wasn't even used for years and taxpayers keep footing the bill. 

So, with all this as background... the PIO informed me that the LAST thing MCSO wants to do is to give the impression that they are engaging in any sort of immigration control activity AT ALL, especially when they are trying to get the federal monitors to go home.

Now, what they DO do is that anyone who is sent to THEIR detention facilities, they run a workup on. If they look fugazi, they give ICE a call. If ICE is interested in them, ICE will issue MCSO a detainer document allowing them to pick up the perp at the time MCSO releases him. If ICE shows no interest, MCSO simply releases him when it's time. If the judge had put this guy in prison for even a day or so, ICE would have him now.

So the sense I get between the lines is that they'd like to be proactive, but don't dare until Karen is gone.

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