Despite the many tales of abuse, we know of only two cases in which one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio investigated his own deputies for alleged racial profiling incidents.
One is the investigation of deputies related to the traffic stop of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's aide, Jessica Rodriguez. As our August 1 blog post shows, that whitewashed investigation led to a giddy -- and inaccurate -- news release by Arpaio that Rodriguez had "admitted no racial prejudic
An allegation of racial profiling in the East Valley Tribune's Pulitzer-prize-winning series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was unsubstantiated by the sheriff's office due to a series of memory lapses. We've been waiting for months for this report, the record of an internal affairs investigation against a 287(g)-trained deputy assigned to Arpaio's human smuggling unit.Reporter Ryan Gabrielson wrote about his experiences on the ridealong with deputies in his July 9 series, reporting that a
