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MAJOR PHOENIX NEW TIMES ARTICLES ON JOE ARPAIO (SEE "SHERIFF JOE ARCHIVE" FOR A COMPLETE LIST)

1. OVERVIEW

The following articles sample the range of law enforcement abuses under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
Jailers Show a Paraplegic Who's Boss
The Cost of Cruelty
Barbarism as a Public Relations Strategy
Human Plights
Enemies List
Boob's Tube
Head on a Skewer
In the Crosshairs
Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix
Jailhouse Blues
Inhumanity Has a Price
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jails Lose National Accreditation
Brown Out
Are Your Papers in Order?
NOPE to Janet Napolitano

2. "TARGET PRACTICE" SERIES

Maricopa County law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of this newspaper's readers in October 2007. Using secret grand jury subpoenas, County Attorney Andrew Thomas sought records that would reveal the identity of anyone who'd looked at New Times online in the previous four years. When the paper's leaders revealed the grand jury probe in a cover story, sheriff's deputies arrested them.

Our investigation has made one thing clear: Maricopa County's sheriff has a vivid history of ignoring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
Who's Sorry Now?
He Just Doesn't Get It
Wilenchik's a Liar, and There's More
Extraordinary Contempt
Enemies List
Siege Mentality
Power Play
Information Blockade
Inmates' Rights Lawsuit Languishes
Inhumanity Has a Price
Flushing Them Out
Money Shot
Alien Nation

3. HATE GROUPS/NATIVIST EXTREMISTS

Only one state in America has more active hate groups than Arizona, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center. Members of these organizations play a prominent role in the anti-immigrant movement. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has spoken at their meetings, received their applause, accepted their awards, and launched one "crime supression sweep" of Hispanics at their behest.

Feathered Bastard: Triumph of the Swill
Jarrett and Goliath
King of Pain
Feathered Bastard: Rusty Childress Embraces a Neo-Nazi
Rusty's World
Feathered Bastard: Bloody Christmas at Pruitt's
The Bird: Resident Evil
Feathered Bastard: Arpaio and the Minuteman
Feathered Bastard: Sheriff Joe's Easter Ethnic Cleansing
Feathered Bastard: Another Neo-Nazi in the Nativist Woodpile

4. IMMIGRATION

Arizona, the birthplace of César Chávez, is the focus of a renegade effort to sweep Mexicans off of American streets and deport them back across the border.

Brown Out
Are Your Papers in Order?
The Bird: Police State
The Bird: Bad Break
The Bird: No Holds Barred
Feathered Bastard: Arpaio's Circus Comes to Buckeye
Feathered Bastard: Arpaio's Thugs Menace Press Conference
Feathered Bastard: Arpaio Profiles Street Vendors
Feathered Bastard: Columbus D-Day

5. INVESTIGATING CRITICS

Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely unleashes his deputies to investigate critics. His targets have included judges, civil rights workers, journalists, and rival politicians.

Enemies List
The Trial
False Positive
America's Toughest Suspects
Insider Account
Blowing His Cool
Trick or Threat
Goon Squad
Information Blockade
Free Ray Stern
Boob's Tube
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
Who's Sorry Now?
Talk About Intimidation

6. EVIDENCE DESTROYED, SUPPRESSED, AND OBSCURED

In an ongoing probe, New Times examines how the Sheriff's Office has destroyed, altered, and withheld incriminating evidence in numerous cases involving heinous brutality by deputies and jailers.

The Trial
False Positive
Gag of an Order
Jail Bait
Jailhouse Justice
Sanitized for Joe's Protection
Sheriff's Cover-up?
Fed Up
Tweaking the Truth
Dead Again
Hart v. Arpaio
Another Jail Death
Torture Chamber
Lies and Videotape
Public Pays in Jail Death

7. BARBARISM IN THE JAIL

Though repeatedly investigated by the courts, the Justice Department -- even Amnesty International -- the corpses continue to accumulate in Sheriff Arpaio's jail.

The Shocking Details on Juan Mendoza Farias
Stillborn: Babies Are Dying in Arpaio's Jails
Jails Lose National Accreditation
Dead Again
Hart v. Arpaio Awaits Verdict
Inhumanity Has a Price
The Cost of Cruelty
Assisted Suicide
Turning Up the Heat
Jailhouse Justice
Jail Bait
109 Degrees of Incarceration
Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix
Tweaking the Truth
Fed Up
Sheriff's Cover-up?
Keeping 'Em in Stitches
A Hoss-Style Witness
Jailers Show a Paraplegic Who's Boss
Barbarism as a Public Relations Strategy
Sanitized for Joe's Protection
Tent City Beating Is Nearly Fatal
Jailhouse Blues
Gulag-Rolling
Hog-Tied by the Truth
U.S. Lawsuit Re-Alleges Abuse in Jails
Human Plights
Hangin' with Sheriff Joe
Feds Probe Alleged Abuse in County Jail

From the Print Edition

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Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis Mobilizes for an Epic Battle with an Urban Legend

By Pete Kotz

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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 2nd, 2011

GET OUT THE VOTE Thanks for the hope and inspiration: Great piece! As an old student activist (and former member of the Maricopa County Community College District governing board), I'm proud… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Ethnocentric Idiocy and Etymology

By Gustavo Arellano

My cousin had put a picture on Facebook that said, "I will not be forced to learn a foreign language to accommodate illegals in my country." He's Mexican-American. Our family… More >>

Victoria Jackson Goes From Comedy Heights to Being the Tea Party's Princess

By Gus Garcia-Roberts

Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered… More >>

Richard Carmona Promises AZ Dems a U.S. Senate Seat

By Stephen Lemons

The big-applause lines from former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona's address at Democrats' recent winter meeting in Tucson conveyed two important messages: He can beat Republican Congressman Jeff Flake in a… More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 26th, 2011

DIRTY JOE A culture of corruption: This is a great article with plenty of historical perspective on the culture of corruption that is Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County ("Coddling Joe," Michael Lacey,… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Groveling to Gabachos and Gentrification

By Gustavo Arellano

It's so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza. You're pathetic! No plan or desire to fix Mexico's problems. You're a puto… More >>

How Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change Phoenix's City Council Race

By Monica Alonzo

In 2005, during an otherwise typical tour of his West Phoenix district, then-Councilman Claude Mattox turned to a City Hall reporter and casually announced that Maryvale, once a premier master-planned… More >>

Cynical Politicians in Tucson's Ethnic Studies Case Will Be on History's Losing Side

By Stephen Lemons

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has come and gone. Just another day off for many. For others, a time a reflection. We all know that enemies of MLK Day, in… More >>

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