Awesome headline! +1

FTFA: "The top 15 offenders together owe more than $1 million to their children, according to the Sheriff's Office."

Sounds like he did something worthwhile if you ask me.

PacManDreaming: FTFA: "The top 15 offenders together owe more than $1 million to their children, according to the Sheriff's Office."

Sounds like he did something worthwhile if you ask me.

Even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn.

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!

GO JOE!

/douche

Arpiao is a complete shiatbag, but he's also a PR master. Any other politician would have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of lawsuits he has to deal with.

Personally, I think he's a figurehead for all of the worst problems with the US penal system.

PoopStain:
How much government control does anyone really want?


When it involves illegal immigrants, Republicans are very much in favor of unlimited government control.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested 72 people on warrants Saturday as part of a deadbeat-parent roundup called "Operation Tough Love."

Out of that total, only 17 were deadbeat parents.

I wonder how much this little failure of a police action cost the taxpayers?

kmmontandon: PoopStain:
How much government control does anyone really want?


When it involves illegal immigrants, Republicans are very much in favor of unlimited government control.

Which is hilarious if you consider just how inept the government is at handling affairs of national security.

Weaver95: I wonder how much this little failure of a police action cost the taxpayers?

I guess it depends on whether it was subsidized by the producers of the hidden camera show thingy.

Police arrest criminals.
Keep up the innovation there Joe.

staplermofo: Police arrest criminals.
Keep up the innovation there Joe.

Yeah, I don't get this, either. I mean, I don't know as much about law enforcement as I'd like to, but it seems odd to me to sit on a bunch of warrants until you think of a clever name for the crack down. Especially when they're warrants for something Arpaio says right there in the article is a crime people often skip town on.

Remember people, according to the Left, enforcing border control is racist because the US did something bad 200 years ago and that negates any attempt to restrict illegal immigration by virtue of moral authority.

When it involves illegal immigrants, Republicans are very much in favor of unlimited government control.

What kind of immigrants?

"The bottom line is they should have respect and surrender," Arpaio said.

Cunning plan there, Joe, just ask all the deadbeats to turn themselves in because they should respect you for not catching them.

Weaver95: I wonder how much this little failure of a police action cost the taxpayers?

Failure? Why is enforcing law a failure exactly?

PoopStain: His forced organ donor program and his forced registration for selective service are barely legal. At least selective service is required by law. Organ donation is not.

The Selective Service is mandatory, the organ donation program is completely voluntary (new window).

Whoever didn't pay their child support, seriously needs a good beat down.

If I catch you avoiding child support without my permission, expect your child support check to be in pieces on the ground.
Even if you offer to pay me more.

It's been done.

And what's up with the Sheriff Joe love by some people? He's not all that. How do I know? I have a 10-year-old athletic son. Do him...sure. Lust after him...not so much.

"The bottom line is they should have respect and surrender," Arpaio said.

Why? Don't you want to do your job? No cameras or reporters around? Considering what you have cost the taxpayers YOU should have respect and resign.

Myownepitaph: Arpiao is a complete shiatbag, but he's also a PR master. Any other politician would have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of lawsuits he has to deal with.

Personally, I think he's a figurehead for all of the worst problems with the US penal system.

As long as people voluntarily re-elect shiatbags with solid PR skills into public office, he is also a poster boy for what's wrong with the American electorate.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't the most popular guy on Fark it seems. That's a shocker. You mean he makes people in the county jail system live in tents and wear pink underwear and grow their own vegetables? Torture! I mean, it's not like jail is supposed to be bad, right?

I've had the misfortune to meet some people that don't think much of obeying the law. What do they think of jail? It's a country club. They watch tv and play video games and hang out with their friends that are all in jail too and you and I get to pay for it. Jail is supposed to make you NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO JAIL. If you are on the outside and get to break whatever laws you want, and the only possible consequence is to go to jail where you have it better than when you're out of jail...seems to me that's a problem.

Real nice, Joe. So with your little 'sting', only 23% netted were actually 'deadbeat' parents. The rest? Well, heck. Tack on some drug charges (in which the specifics of THOSE arrests were suspiciously absent from TFA - wonder how many were pot related?) for the non-deadbeats and you're good to go, right? *sigh* Fark you, Joe. Fark you long and hard. Here's to hoping you're voted out during the next electoral go-round. Many of the mouthbreathers in this state may think you're a 'hero', but those of us with above room temperature IQs know better. Your attention-whoring cowboy tactics only serve to eat up precious taxpayer resources that the state can't afford right now. You are one reason why I moved out of your shiatty county for good.

Cuzweedoles: Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't the most popular guy on Fark it seems. That's a shocker. You mean he makes people in the county jail system live in tents and wear pink underwear and grow their own vegetables? Torture! I mean, it's not like jail is supposed to be bad, right?

You know nothing about him, do you?

More events:

Lose Your Independence Day
Forced Labor Day
Me-More-Trial Day

I hate that farking guy. Sure, he's arresting people who broke one law or another, but he's the police equivalent of Dog the Bounty Hunter, only people seem to die while under his care. Prison is not his penal playground. There are laws, and he has to follow them, too.

/penal playground

tonesskin: Whoever didn't pay their child support, seriously needs a good beat down.

If I catch you avoiding child support without my permission, expect your child support check to be in pieces on the ground.
Even if you offer to pay me more.

It's been done.

And what's up with the Sheriff Joe love by some people? He's not all that. How do I know? I have a 10-year-old athletic son. Do him...sure. Lust after him...not so much.

You been hittin' the sauce early?

Cuzweedoles: Jail is supposed to make you NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO JAIL.

Jail is where you hold people awaiting trial. It should be, you know, in accordance with "innocent until proven guilty".

This schmuck doesn't do that. He's a taskmaster - he tries to act tough toward vulnerable people in order to get elected.

This is ignoring people dying under his care, and his generally douchebaggery.

"The bottom line is they should have respect and surrender," Arpaio said."
only a moron would surrender for anything in that fascist's jurisdiction.

Swampthing in Korea: Remember people, according to the Left, enforcing border control is racist because the US did something bad 200 years ago and that negates any attempt to restrict illegal immigration by virtue of moral authority.

Pretty much, ya. But then again, it says something to me when a guy in Maricopa County, Arizona - a non-border county whose main population base lives about a hundred miles through nothing from the border - has to worry about border stuff. Like, maybe Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz and Cochise Counties need to get their shiat together. But hey, I'm just the great-grandson of eight people who immigrated legally and all. What do I know?

saintstryfe

Yeah, but dead inmates have the lowest incidence of recidivism

Maybe he ran out of people clapping at council meetings to arrest (new window) or maybe he just decided it's time to put on some good PR since the House Judiciary Committee is now calling for an investigation of misconduct by Sheriff Joe. (new window)

Approves of Joe Arpaio's methods

I remember Penn & Teller interviewing him for their War on Drugs episode for Bullsh_t. I'm paraphrasing (because it's been about 4 years?), but the only logic he could provide for marijuana being illegal was because that keeps law-abiding citizens from saying, "What the heck; I'll give it a try!"

It made him look very stupid and power-hungry, and I'm guessing that's probably pretty spot-on.

/not a user
//don't mind if you do

I read this article and then I read the comments here, and I wonder what most of you are smoking. 15 of the 17 of these deadbeats together owe more than a million bucks in child support. And most of you are railing on the ones who busted them.

I have no sympathy for deadbeat dads and moms, and even less for idiots that support them.

vulnerable people
Since September, Burgett said, her task force has dismantled more than 20 cells, including five connected to the June 26 incident in which a group of gunmen - mistaken initially for military commandos or SWAT officers - fired more than 100 rounds into a drug house in a neighborhood near 83rd Avenue and McDowell Road. Police later reported that Andrew Williams, a Jamaican drug dealer killed in the shootout, was targeted by the group for marijuana and cash.
Link (new window)

We need more hard core sheriffs like him

How about "Operation Immigration OctoMom's Doctor Easter Egg Hunt" ?

Boddhisatva: Maybe he ran out of people clapping at council meetings to arrest (new window) or maybe he just decided it's time to put on some good PR since the House Judiciary Committee is now calling for an investigation of misconduct by Sheriff Joe. (new window)

They will never know what hit them. He will be running for President by 2012 with this free media exposure. Tom Tancredo might as well quit right now.

Joe Arpaio.....

Good Job...........!
but glad I live in "Pinal county

mmarteen: He will be running for President by 2012 with this free media exposure.

He appears to be as dumb as Sarah Palin or George W. Bush, so you may be right!

Love your username, Boddhisatva, btw. Jammed to Countdown to Ecstasy just last night at my campfire...

ciocia: Myownepitaph: Arpiao is a complete shiatbag, but he's also a PR master. Any other politician would have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of lawsuits he has to deal with.

Personally, I think he's a figurehead for all of the worst problems with the US penal system.

As long as people voluntarily re-elect shiatbags with solid PR skills into public office, he is also a poster boy for what's wrong with the American electorate.

OLd people. Old Senile people. People who get all their news from Fox News, AM talk Radio and scare-mongering Reader's Digest articles. GAWD fearin' people who yearn for "the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty", aka the "git off mah lawn" types.

They all vote. And vote they do, in droves, to be taken advantage of by sleaseball officials.

gimmeabreak: I read this article and then I read the comments here, and I wonder what most of you are smoking. 15 of the 17 of these deadbeats together owe more than a million bucks in child support. And most of you are railing on the ones who busted them.

I have no sympathy for deadbeat dads and moms, and even less for idiots that support them.


Let's try quoting the article again, perhaps in small enough chunks your inability to RTFA will be countered by the sheer force and speed of small logic bullets bursting through your impenetrable idiot-armor:

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested 72 people on warrants Saturday as part of a deadbeat-parent roundup called "Operation Tough Love."

Out of that total, only 17 were deadbeat parents.

geetus: I hate that farking guy. Sure, he's arresting people who broke one law or another, but he's the police equivalent of Dog the Bounty Hunter, only people seem to die while under his care. Prison is not his penal playground. There are laws, and he has to follow them, too.

/penal playground

holy crap. thats quite a few handicapped dead folks and a lot of money paid out while this guy has been in charge. even here in saskatoon saskatchewan we haven't had that many fatalities and everyone still makes jokes about what the saskatoon city police do to their indian prisoners

Deadbeat parents need to pay. It's called taking responsibility for the children you produced while you were so joyfully farking someone you thought you couldn't live without. Just because you later found out that the other parent of your child is a total douchebag does not relieve you of the responsibility of taking care of your child. If you then want to ignore the lawful ruling of a court of law and be a deadbeat, a stint under the loving care of Sheriff Joe seems appropriate. The notion of punishment is to make non-compliance with the law less tolerable than compliance.

When this guy goes down, some truly horrific revelations will emerge about just what he's been up to, mark my words. He's showed his total disregard for human rights, his willingness to terrorize others for his own gain, and his belief that people charged with or convicted of crimes are sub-human.

I would not be at all surprised if he/his people have outright committed murder or other major crimes, under the cover of his personal gulag.

Weaver95: I wonder how much this little failure of a police action cost the taxpayers?

A lot, but the wizened old bags who keep voting him in just hear "He's tough on people who aren't like you" because their hearing aids automatically tune out the "while costing our county millions in lawsuits every year" part of the sentence. With Brewer gutting everything in an attempt to balance the State budget, I don't think she'll be all that thrilled with his lawsuit inducing antics so there is hope that the attempts to get him removed from office will have State level support.

Swampthing in Korea: Remember people, according to the Left, enforcing border control is racist because the US did something bad 200 years ago and that negates any attempt to restrict illegal immigration by virtue of moral authority.

Do you ever have something intelligent to contribute to these threads, or have you gone from "hard-right wingnut" to full on Freeper troll now that Obama is in office?

Sheriff Joe is very rough around the edges and severely bends many laws, but at least he's doing something.

Too many sheriffs are elected in, then sit on their butts.

Jail should not be fun or easy. Anyone who's stupid enough to commit a crime in his jurisdiction deserves pink underwear and manual labor.

LowbrowDeluxe: Let's try quoting the article again, perhaps in small enough chunks your inability to RTFA will be countered by the sheer force and speed of small logic bullets bursting through your impenetrable idiot-armor:

Nothing can pierce through the idiot-armour of a person who thinks Arpaio is actually a benefit to Maricopa county, let alone the state of Arizona. It's forged deep within the heart of Mount Doom Real America^(TM) from the densest levels of stupid imaginable.

tukatz: Sheriff Joe is very rough around the edges and severely bends many laws, but at least he's doing something.

Yes. He hemorrages money from the county because he's such an ignorant little fascist that he can't seem to grasp the fact that just because someone is accused of a crime, they are not necessarily guilty. Punishment is supposed to be determined by the Judicial system, not his overinflated sense of self-worth.

Vern the Worm: tonesskin: Whoever didn't pay their child support, seriously needs a good beat down.

If I catch you avoiding child support without my permission, expect your child support check to be in pieces on the ground.
Even if you offer to pay me more.

It's been done.

And what's up with the Sheriff Joe love by some people? He's not all that. How do I know? I have a 10-year-old athletic son. Do him...sure. Lust after him...not so much.

You been hittin' the sauce early?

What day was it yesterday?

/Still drunk.