Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s weasel-y attempt to exempt the “jail side” of his operation and all posse members from having to obey federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s latest dictate in the ACLU’s big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio has failed. With the exception of jail volunteers and others personally guaranteed…

So here’s a joke that was, until just recently, on the public Facebook page for Phoenix Police Officer Clint Brookins: “How many cops does it take to get a suspect downstairs?” “None, he fell.” The joke could be written off as dark humor, as could many of Brookins’ other posts…

Do Sheriff Joe Arpaio, his top brass and his lawyers all suffer from brain damage, or perhaps some form of what now is politely referred to as “intellectual disability”? If I didn’t know better, I’d swear the answer was, “yes.” That’s because the MCSO is, again, objecting to the full…

Sometimes I hate to be right. For instance, in a recent blog post about Sheriff Joe Arpaio traveling to Los Angeles for a Hollywood screening of producer Randy Murray’s documentary The Joe Show, I noted that Murray’s idea of inviting Joe along for the ride was a bad one, unlikely…

Among other things, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a liar and a coward. To prove my point, I could go into Arpaio’s history of dodging debates with re-election rivals, his opportune moments of amnesia under oath, and his sloughing off responsibility for MCSO scandals onto subordinates. But let’s examine more recent…

Should it surprise anyone that Sheriff Joe Arpaio, once called a “media whore” by his own PR flack, will be flying to Los Angeles for the red-carpet screening of a documentary that’s highly critical of him? Still, I’m a little annoyed by news of Arpaio’s attending a showing of director/producer…

U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow finally may be catching a clue about Sheriff Joe Arpaio, his team of beige-shirted flunkies, and all the lies they’ve been spreading about Snow’s findings and orders in the ACLU’s big civil rights lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio. Today, Snow filed an enforcement order,…

Is there a diaper big enough to fit big ol’ baby Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Yep, Arpaio’s pitching a fit like the spoiled, soiled octogenarian that he is, demanding a do-over on a “corrective statement” that his attorney Tim Casey recently submitted to the federal court in the ACLU’s groundbreaking civil…

What will it take to rid Arizona’s political scene of the man whom one wag I know has dubbed Sand Land’s “Rasputin”? Not the conclusion of a humble administrative law judge, that’s for sure. I’m not knocking ALJ Tammy Eigenheer, trier of fact in the campaign finance case against Arizona…

First nativists and birthers, now Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites? Yes, even for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, this jumps the proverbial shark. I’m talking about a recent interview Arpaio granted to Pennsylvania-based Holocaust-denier Victor Thorn, author of The Holocaust Hoax Exposed: Debunking the 20th Century’s Greatest Fabrication and Made in Israel: 9-11 and…

Not sure I’ll believe this until I see Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s geriatric scrawl on it, but reproduced at the bottom of this post is the so-called “corrective statement,” filed by the MCSO’s attorney Tim Casey in the ACLU’s big civil rights lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio. You’ll recall that on May…

Two years is apparently enough to revive the fortunes of disgraced, former congressional candidate and wannabe underwear model Sheriff Paul Babeu. Back in 2012, my colleague Monica Alonzo revealed that the strident, anti-immigrants, Pinal County border hawk had been sleeping with his reputed enemy in the form of Mexican national…

Savings and loan swindler Charles Keating, who died Monday in Phoenix at age 90, hated pornography. Or so he claimed. The devout Roman Catholic made a name for himself in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, and beyond, as a scourge of smut, founding an influential anti-porn organization that eventually became…

When it comes to the ACLU’s big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio, the MCSO clown car, as driven by geriatric joker Sheriff Joe Arpaio, just keeps on rollin’, despite U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow’s best efforts. In fact, Snow has called a status conference for April 3,…

Following Monday’s hearing before federal Judge G. Murray Snow, where Snow meted out a verbal shellacking to Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, Arpaio briefly appeared outside the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, reminding reporters that Snow’s ruling against him in Melendres v. Arpaio was under appeal…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan appeared in federal court in Phoenix Monday morning to take a verbal woodshedding from U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow. Snow was ticked over remarks Sheridan and Arpaio had made to MCSO deputies on October 18, concerning Snow’s findings and…

U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow’s recent order spanking Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, mainly dealt with Sheridan and Arpaio’s contempt for Snow’s ruling in the ACLU’s big civil rights lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio. Snow has ordered that both Sheridan and Arpaio be present Monday,…

The Glendale Police Department today released video of MCSO Deputy Sean Pearce’s December 16, car crash, which killed 63-year-old Glendale resident John Harding. A local businesswoman provided the video to police, and there are two angles. The first is from the southbound side of North 59th Avenue and shows Harding’s…

Neither Sheriff Joe Arpaio nor his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan have been playing by the rules federal Judge G. Murray Snow laid down in the ACLU’s big racial profiling lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio. And Judge Snow is not amused. That’s the gist of a 17-page order issued Monday by Snow,…