Sheriff Arpaio, is just a shitty sheriff

Post #329,781 by lincoln 7/17/10 4:45:53 PM Reply	Sheriff Arpaio, is just a shitty sheriff From 2002 to 2009, the crime rate in Maricopa County has increased 58 percent, while the state as a whole averaged a 12 percent decrease. Compare that 58 percent crime increase to other localities of Arizona that did not use the immigrant-targeting approach. In that same time period, Phoenix enjoyed a 14 percent decrease; Tempe, a 26 percent decrease; and Mesa, a 31 percent decrease. source: http://americasvoice..._in_violent_crime I guess targeting Hispanics, putting people in tent cities and making them wear pink underwear just ain't doing the job... "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #329,787 by boxley 7/17/10 6:49:02 PM Reply	so those wild white old people are on a rampage in maricopa? clue by 4 more arrests=more crime stats you will notice over the next year that minor crimes in oakland will have a sudden drop.
Post #329,793 by mhuber 7/17/10 9:14:19 PM Reply	The crimes in question... "murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. ... arson" I kind of doubt that there is enough of that stuff going on unreported to make increased arrests account for the big difference in the statistics. That would imply that a fairly large number of people picked up for driving while brown just happened to have done a murder, rape, robbery, etc. that nobody would have mentioned otherwise. Some of those crimes (rape, burglary) have fairly low reporting rates, but I just don't see the odds of randomly catching a guy for an unreported rape. Ok, I suppose you might occasionally randomly catch somebody for an unreported burglary. A percentage point or two difference? Maybe. 58% (and that's charitably zero-based) no, not for this kind of crimes. Increased enforcement will increase crime rates for some crimes. Crimes like drunk driving. Tax evasion. Prostitution. Crimes where the initial report is commonly the result of police investigation. Arpaio is playing political games with resources that his more responsible colleagues use for, well, fighting crime. So he doesn't have those resources available to get the job done and the job isn't getting done. Political theater has costs. --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)

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