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Judge orders monitor for ‘America’s toughest sheriff’ after department loses racial profiling lawsuit

Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed America’s toughest sheriff, was dealt a humbling blow Wednesday after U.S District Judge Murray Snow ruled his Maricopa County, Arizona office will be appointed a monitor. The court order comes after the sheriff’s office lost a racial profiling suit in May. Arpaio’s office was alleged to have detained Latinos for unreasonably […]

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio responds to shot jail officer: Issue every deputy in the county an AR-15 (VIDEO)

An Arizona jail officer was shot and killed in his driveway, leading to a frantic search of the suspect, in Maricopa County Thursday. Jorge Vargas, an 8-year veteran of the Maricopa County Jail, was murdered while working on his truck at 4 a.m. before going to work. Multiple gunshots rung out, breaking the otherwise peaceful […]

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Steven Seagal team up to stop school shootings

The controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio enlists action film star Steven Seagal and other members of the Maricopa County SWAT division to train armed volunteers on how to respond to school shootings.

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