Joe Arpaio Unveils New, Inmate Torture Device: “Pedal Vision”

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest dehumanizing crime deterrent yesterday — a device the sheriff is calling “pedal vision.”Pedal vision is a something the Sheriff’s Office rigged up that requires inmates to ride a stationary bike if they want to watch television.As an inmate pedals, the bike creates…

Russell Pearce’s Police State Bill Passes MAPS Committee (Again); All Persons in Arizona Could Be Required To Prove They Are Not Illegal

State Senator Russell Pearce’s police state bill, SB 1070, passed the House Military Affairs and Public Safety committee again today, after a three hour session of testimony, with state Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the Assistant House Democratic Leader, taking the lead on peppering Pearce, and others speaking for and against the bill, with…

Eric Holder on Joe Arpaio Probe: DOJ Expects “Results,” Investigation Ongoing

With demonstrators outside the Phoenix federal courthouse clamoring for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today characterized the Department of Justice investigation into Arpaio’s office as “serious” and “ongoing,” and said that he expected the probe to produce “results.”The attorney general was at downtown’s Sandra Day O’Connor…

CBS 5 News Reports on the Fight to Save the Career Criminal Squad

CBS 5’s Peter Busch did a segment for last night’s news on the fight to save the Career Criminal Squad, a squad of four detectives and one sergeant that goes undercover to investigate street-level hate crimes and murder-for-hire cases.I decried the impending disbandment of this squad in last week’s Bird…

Russell Pearce Should Be Censured Over “Terrorist” Remark, Demands Ernie Hancock’s Lawyer in Letter to Senate Ethics Committee

Freedom’s Phoenix Web site owner and Libertarian activist Ernie Hancock is demanding that state Senator Russell Pearce be censured by the Senate Ethics Committee. This, over an e-mail Pearce sent out recently suggesting that Hancock’s advocacy against Pearce’s SB 1070/HB 2632 was “just short of a domestic terrorist act.”As I’ve…