Scott Norberg

Coddling Joe: How Do You Collaborate With a Felon?

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio in MCSO's "Safe Cell": Mike Manning Comments

Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from th ... More >>

Dr. Mark Salerno Is Living Proof That It's Possible to Overcome Mental Illness

Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from th ... More >>

The Feds Have Been Investigating Arpaio Since 2008, So Where the Hell are the Indictments?

Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from th ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Will He Get the "Nogales Mayor Treatment" from Terry Goddard and the FBI?

Damn! We're in a tight spot! Where's Lisa Allen when I need her? Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and mon ... More >>

Arpaio's Gulags, As Experienced by a Limey; Plus the Media Chumps Out on the Latest Racist Tea Party

Damn! We're in a tight spot! Where's Lisa Allen when I need her? Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and mon ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Sends His BFF E.J. Montini a Pizza, Per Their Little "Tradition"

from Jon SullivanMontini scores a pizza from Joe. What's next, flowers and a date?Can Arpaio Twitter via his ancient Smith Corona typewriter? That's what's been keeping me up late as I ponder the true author or authors of Joe's very active Twitter account. In his recent deposition in the big Me ... More >>

Sheriff Joe’s Tortured in Hades, and Will Arizona’s New U.S. Attorney Follow El Diablo’s Lead?

from Jon SullivanMontini scores a pizza from Joe. What's next, flowers and a date?Can Arpaio Twitter via his ancient Smith Corona typewriter? That's what's been keeping me up late as I ponder the true author or authors of Joe's very active Twitter account. In his recent deposition in the big Me ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's "First Amendment Rights" Defended by Janet Napolitano

screenshot from americanprogress.orgJanet Napolitano, speaking at the Center for American ProgressIn a speech today before the Center for American Progress, the think-tank which essentially acts as the Obama administration's gray matter, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spo ... More >>

The Bird Defends a Hispanic Woman Whose Wing Was Clipped by the MCSO, and Knocks Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel's Idea of Din-Din with Arpaio

screenshot from americanprogress.orgJanet Napolitano, speaking at the Center for American ProgressIn a speech today before the Center for American Progress, the think-tank which essentially acts as the Obama administration's gray matter, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spo ... More >>

Who's Afraid of CNN's Rick Sanchez? Governor Janet Napolitano

Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez's CNN broadcast. Why won't the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez's afternoon show? Following President elect Barack Obama's pick of Arizona Governor Napolitano to be his administration's Homeland Security czar, Sanchez has ... More >>

Arpaio tells a $400 million whopper, and a New Times reporter's kicked out of Joe's offices--again

Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez's CNN broadcast. Why won't the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez's afternoon show? Following President elect Barack Obama's pick of Arizona Governor Napolitano to be his administration's Homeland Security czar, Sanchez has ... More >>

The trials of Tom Bearup: Joe Arpaio's former right-hand man tells all.

Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez's CNN broadcast. Why won't the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez's afternoon show? Following President elect Barack Obama's pick of Arizona Governor Napolitano to be his administration's Homeland Security czar, Sanchez has ... More >>

Useful Idiots

The pissed-off puffin paddles fellow journalists, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and an FBI monkey-spanker at U of A

King of Pain

Sheriff Joe crowns himself anti-corruption kingfish and J.T. Ready looks for race friends on Newsaxon.com

The Cost of Cruelty

A federal jury returned a $9 million verdict against Maricopa County in still another jailhouse death

Death Sentence

Maricopa County jail personnel handled an unruly prisoner so harshly that he died. So what else is new?

Baa-aaaaaad News

Business as usual: The winged wonder on Sheriff Joe's profound respect for sheep, and on the demise of Air America Phoenix

Donkey Kong

After looking like political asses in the '90s, Arizona Democrats have the money, moderation and 800-pound gorilla to kick some pachyderm tail

Letters

Letters from the week of July 29, 2004

Trick or Threat

On Halloween, Joe Arpaio and his men set a new low for police harassment

Auto Erratic

SunCor filed a lawsuit, and wound up getting slapped with a $28.6 million jury verdict

The Devil and Mr. Hernandez

A man possessed, plumber turned amateur exorcist Paul Hernandez wants to get the Hell out of Phoenix.

An Errant Rescue

The short life and times of Johnny Jardine, Part 1

Posse Galore

Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Letters

Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Moving Target

Vocal leader of deputy's group is candidate for dismissal

Detention Mounts

County jails are understaffed, but there seems to be plenty of money for the sheriff's pet projects

Joe's Spies

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

Letters

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

No, No, Janet

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

Letters

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

Letters

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

He Shot the Sheriff

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

Hog-Tied by the Truth

For the second time, a federal investigator has found appalling conditions in the county jails

Letters

For the second time, a federal investigator has found appalling conditions in the county jails

Doubting Thomas

Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

Joe, Jane & John

Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

Flashes

Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

Say It Ain't Joe

Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

Joe Assumes Deposition

Arpaio tries to distance himself from pronouncements about punishing inmates

Flashes

Arpaio tries to distance himself from pronouncements about punishing inmates

Flashes

Arpaio tries to distance himself from pronouncements about punishing inmates

Jailers Show a Paraplegic Who's Boss

Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

Flashes

Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

A New Apparatchik in Joe's Politburo

Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

Letters

Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

Simply Stunning

Federal probe finds excessive force, poor medical care at county jails; stun gun used on inmate's testicles

The Shadiest Guns in the West

When it comes to ethics, some of Sheriff Joe's top aides take after their boss

Death and Laxness

If the jailers had paid attention, they might have noticed that Jose Rodriquez was dying