The Phoenix New Times and the Real Sheriff Joe...

This is appropriate for election day, 2012 - the Phoenix New Times' coverage of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's career. Thanks especially to Stephen Lemons for watchdogging this guy...

• Arpaio Awaits Justice as Election Looms

  By Michael Lacey
  November 01, 2012

• Sheriff Joe Sure Ain't a Conservative, and Here's Why

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 25, 2012

• Arpaio Snuggles Up to an Ex-Inmate in His Cynical Bid for a Sixth Term

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 20, 2012

• The Feds Proved Themselves a Cage of Cowardly Lions in the Arpaio Investigation

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 06, 2012

• Mike Stauffer's Third-Wheel Bid for Sheriff May Keep Arpaio in Office

  By Stephen Lemons
  July 12, 2012

• Joe Arpaio Turns a Blind Eye to Jailhouse Justice

  By Paul Rubin
  June 14, 2012

• Jailhouse Goons Make Fun Of and Kill a Mentally Ill Inmate

  By Stephen Lemons
  June 14, 2012

• Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

  By Ray Stern
  February 16, 2012

• Remembering Marty Atencio, the Latest Fatality in Joe Arpaio's Jail

  By Stephen Lemons
  January 05, 2012

• The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

  By Ray Stern
  May 26, 2011

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 28, 2011

  April 28, 2011

• Will the $100 Million Hole Joe Arpaio Dug Kill Him in the 2012 Election?

  By Stephen Lemons
  April 21, 2011

• Andrew Thomas May End Up Disbarred, But He Really Belongs in a Prison Cell

  By Stephen Lemons
  December 09, 2010

• What's Mom Worth?: When a Woman Became Deathly Ill in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jail, Guards and Nurses Ignored Her Agony

  By Michael Lacey
  December 09, 2010

• Should Sheriff Joe Arpaio Get a Pass When the Indictments Come Down? Hell, No

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 23, 2010

• Arpaio's Gulags, As Experienced by a Limey; Plus the Media Chumps Out on the Latest Racist Tea Party

  By Stephen Lemons
  August 26, 2010

• Arpaio Kicks $40K to New Times, Plus Benjamin Bratt Discusses His New Movie, La Mission, and His Opposition to SB 1070

  By Stephen Lemons
  June 10, 2010

• In Arpaio's Jails, the Most Basic Healthcare is No Better Despite Years of Lawsuits and Investigations; a Lesson Bertha Oropeza Learned the Hard Way

  By Lauren Gilger
  April 15, 2010

• The Court Tower Conspiracy: Andrew Thomas and Joe Arpaio's Court Tower "Cover-Up" Sounds Like a Good Story, But It's Pure Fiction

  By Sarah Fenske
  February 18, 2010

• Shocking Pink: Arpaio's Detention Officers Unnecessarily Terrorized a Psychotic Inmate Because He Resisted Wearing Pink Underwear

  By Paul Rubin
  February 11, 2010

• MCSO Shackling Pregnant Moms, and Singer Linda Ronstadt Plans to March Against Arpaio

  By Stephen Lemons
  January 07, 2010

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 31, 2009

  December 31, 2009

• The Nooses Must Be Cut Down

  Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk provided the blade. Now it's up to AG Goddard and President Obama to use it

  By Michael Lacey
  December 31, 2009

• Is Nothing Sacred?: Apparently Not in Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas’ Wacked Legal World

  By Paul Rubin
  December 24, 2009

• The American Artist: A Naturalized Citizen, Painter, and Valley Legal-System Translator, Ramon Delgadillo Was Refused Entry to Arpaio's Jail Because He Didn't Carry Proof of Citizenship

  By Stephen Lemons
  December 17, 2009

• The Pink Negro: As an Ivy League Lawyer, is President Barack Obama Hard Enough to Confront the Evil Personified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

  By Michael Lacey
  December 10, 2009

• Tuned In: The MCSO Pointed Guns at Siblings, Both U.S. Citizens, After a Deputy’s Attention Was Drawn to Them by Spanish-Language Music Blaring from Their Car

  By Ray Stern
  December 10, 2009

• He Never Flinched: A U.S. Citizen Was Detained by the MCSO and Then Testified Before Congress About His Being Racially Profiled

  By Stephen Lemons
  December 03, 2009

• No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. Citizen Says He Was Detained Without Probable Cause by the MCSO, and Then Jailed for Traffic Violations

  By Valeria Fernández
  November 19, 2009

• Rules Be Damned: A Legal Resident Presented Valid Documentation to the MCSO but Was Jailed for 12 Days Anyway

  By Valeria Fernández
  November 12, 2009

• Does U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Have the Stones to Take on Sheriff Joe?

  By Stephen Lemons
  November 05, 2009

• Zip-Tied at 12: A Permanent Resident and His U.S. Citizen Son Are Bound by the MCSO for Being Brown and Living Next to a Drop House

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 29, 2009

• The MCSO Retaliates Against a Guadalupe Activist; Plus, John Huppenthal Spews Bogus Stats During a Prejudice Party at the Arizona Capitol

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 29, 2009

• Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles After One of Arpaio’s Deputies Racially Profiled Her

  By Valeria Fernández
  October 22, 2009

• One Mother’s Suffering, Joe Arpaio’s Bigotry, and Stories of Racial Profiling by the MCSO

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 15, 2009

• State of Fear: Permanent Legal Resident Stopped For Being Brown By MCSO Deputies

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 15, 2009

• Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas: They're All About the Perp Walk

  By Sarah Fenske
  October 08, 2009

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Command Staff is Caught Up in a Serious Criminal Investigation, Newly Released Documents Show

  By Sarah Fenske
  September 03, 2009

• Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard Goes After Captain Joel Fox and the SCA Money

  By Sarah Fenske
  August 27, 2009

• SCA Donors Knew Their Money was Going to Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- and That Could Mean Trouble for the State GOP

  By Sarah Fenske
  August 13, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 13, 2009

  August 13, 2009

• Janet Napolitano Pulls a Switcheroo on the Pro-Immigrant Crowd, Arpaio Scores a Latina Judge's Recusal, plus Swastikas in Fountain Hills

  By Stephen Lemons
  July 23, 2009

• All the Sheriff's Men: The SCA Campaign-Finance Scandal is Linked to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott

  By Sarah Fenske
  July 23, 2009

• The Lumley Vampire Attacks Arizona Department of Corrections’ Charles Ryan for the Death of Marcia Powell, Arpaio’s Goons Zip-Tie a 12-Year-Old, and the Jail Lockdowns Are Over

  By Stephen Lemons
  May 28, 2009

• Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close

  By Stephen Lemons
  May 14, 2009

• Arpaio’s Avondale Sweep a Bust, Pima County Sheriff Wants to Check School Kids’ Immigration Papers, and Chris Simcox Takes on McCain

  By Stephen Lemons
  April 30, 2009

• Arpaio and the 287(g) Hearings, Direct from D.C.

  By Stephen Lemons
  April 09, 2009

• Are Your Papers in Order?

  By Michael Lacey
  March 19, 2009

• The Bird Defends a Hispanic Woman Whose Wing Was Clipped by the MCSO, and Knocks Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel's Idea of Din-Din with Arpaio

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  March 19, 2009

• MCSO Detectives Question Former State Bar chief counsel Bob Van Wyck, Alleging He “Intimidated” Ernie Calderon, Who Backed Andrew Thomas in a Bar Probe

  By Paul Rubin
  March 19, 2009

• Are Your Papers in Order?

  The Sanchezes are American citizens who've been in this country longer than Joe Arpaio's family. The Sanchezes are criminally brown.

  By Michael Lacey
  March 12, 2009

• It's Time to Kick Andrew Thomas Off the Stapley Investigation

  By Sarah Fenske
  February 19, 2009

• The Wily Warbler Visits Ciria Lopez-Pacheco and Courtney Bisbee Behind Bars

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  January 22, 2009

• Before Don Stapley’s Indictment, There Was the Land Deal

  By Sarah Fenske
  January 01, 2009

• Andrew Thomas Cuts a Plea Deal with a Neo-Nazi, County Democrats Reorganize, and a Phony UPS Guy Delivers Redflex Ticket

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  December 18, 2008

• Don Stapley’s Biggest Crime Was Failing to Hide His Real Estate Dealings as Well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio Did

  By Sarah Fenske
  December 11, 2008

• The Dirty on Nik Richie, Post-it Note Ninjas, and SCA-Gate — All Within This Owl’s Talons

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  November 27, 2008

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Own Records Raise Serious Questions About Inmate Juan Mendoza Farias' Violent Death

  By John Dickerson
  November 20, 2008

• The Bird Claws at State Democrats and Likens the GOP's SCA-gate to the Granddaddy of Political Scandals

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  November 13, 2008

• ICE’s Matthew Allen and Dennis DeConcini Get Ripped Apart by the Taloned Terror

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  November 06, 2008

• New Times Endorses Dan Saban and Tim Nelson

  By Michael Lacey
  October 30, 2008

• Arpaio’s Jail Staff Cost Ambrett Spencer Her Baby, and She’s Not the Only One

  By John Dickerson
  October 30, 2008

• Are Joe Arpaio and His MCSO's Fiscally Wasteful and Inhumane Antics Finally Catching Up With Him?

  By Ray Stern
  October 23, 2008

• New Times’ Lawsuit Continues, Stern’s “Disorderly Conduct” Charge Dropped, and We Ask a Judge to Force Joe to Release Video of a Suffocated Inmate's Last Minutes

  By John Dickerson
  October 16, 2008

• A Dog of a Case: Andrew Thomas Again Proves That Indicting the Innocent Isn’t a Good Idea

  By Sarah Fenske
  October 16, 2008

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails Lose National Accreditation

  By John Dickerson
  October 09, 2008

• The Not-So-Pious Partridge Calls Phoenix’s Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted a Wimp on Immigration

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  September 25, 2008

• The relentless raptor sinks his beak into the tyranny of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  September 18, 2008

• Hart v. Arpaio civil rights class-action suit awaits verdict

  By John Dickerson
  September 11, 2008

• The Bird joins the anti-Arpaio siege at Wells Fargo, postmortems the Pearce- Gibbons race, and knocks Napolitano for defending Sarah Palin

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  September 11, 2008

• Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards?

  By John Dickerson
  September 11, 2008

• The Bird tsks at Phoenix Magazine, revisits Guadalupe’s recalls and takes one more swipe at Russell “White Pride” Pearce

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  August 28, 2008

• Excerpts from interviews and other documents re: State of Arizona v. Ray Stern

  August 28, 2008

• Joe Arpaio’s men fail to justify criminally charging New Times reporter Ray Stern in a public records dispute

  By Michael Lacey
  August 28, 2008

• This pious partridge asks for blessings for Darrell Ankarlo, Candy Thomas, and all the other corrupt politicos in Sand Land

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  August 07, 2008

• The Bird shelters Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia from the flak she’s received for hoisting an Arpaio piñata head

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  July 24, 2008

• Mesa Police Chief George Gascón stares down Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  By Ray Stern
  July 10, 2008

• The Bird revels in Sheriff Joe's decline, slams Mark Spencer's false hysteria, and explains why "illegals" ain't criminals

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  July 03, 2008

• Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law

  By Stephen Lemons
  June 26, 2008

• County Attorney Andrew Thomas fights to seal Wilenchik's State Bar secrets

  By Sarah Fenske
  June 26, 2008

• Sheriff Joe’s goons bring new heights of absurdity to Phoenix City Hall

  By Sarah Fenske
  June 19, 2008

• The Bird needles Crispin Glover over his alleged meltdown at Chandler Cinemas

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  June 12, 2008

• Judge Neil Wake takes action in the jail conditions lawsuit against Arpaio

  By John Dickerson
  June 12, 2008

• The Bird poops on a crowd of 9/11 deniers and reports on the latest symbolic protest of Joe Arpaio

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  June 05, 2008

• Guadalupe made it clear that Joe Arpaio’s attacking anyone with brown skin

  By Stephen Lemons
  May 29, 2008

• Light rail may not start on time — and Arpaio’s investigation of AG Goddard may never finish

  By Sarah Fenske
  May 22, 2008

• The Bird on Mayor Phil and why the Fonz can't tell the world, "Fuck the police"

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  April 24, 2008

• Lacey, Larkin receive award

  April 10, 2008

• The Bird tackles AZ's new immigration czar, Matthew Allen, while Guadalupe revolts against the MCSO's iron grip

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  April 10, 2008

• The Bird covers the waterfront on Sheriff Arpaio’s racial profiling patrols and demands freedom for First Friday bohos

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  April 03, 2008

• Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself

  By Paul Rubin
  March 20, 2008

• The Bird pummels the MSCO, Scottsdale PD, and saves some licks for both Anonymous and Scientology

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  March 20, 2008

• The Bird catches Darrell Ankarlo butt-smoochin' Sheriff Joe again, relates the latest on the MCSO's Honduran scandal and introduces candidates vying for Candy Thomas' job

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  March 06, 2008

• New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution

  By Stephen Lemons
  February 21, 2008

• The Bird wonders why Sheriff Joe Arpaio put a U.S. citizen behind bars for simply appearing Mexican

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  January 31, 2008

• The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  January 24, 2008

• Math-Challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can't Account for the $41 Million He's Cost Taxpayers

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  January 10, 2008

• Our Community Under Siege

  Where do we turn when law enforcement threatens citizens like a grim force of nature?

  By Michael Lacey
  December 27, 2007

• Flushing Them Out

  Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants

  By Megan Irwin
  December 27, 2007

• Dennis the Menace

  Arpaio's lawyer can't explain away his fudged résumé

  By Amy Silverman
  December 27, 2007

• Money Shot

  If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

  By Sarah Fenske
  December 27, 2007

• Alien Nation

  Anti-immigrant sentiments are nothing new in America

  By Megan Irwin
  December 27, 2007

• Cyberspace Invaders

  County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

  By Bill Jensen
  December 20, 2007

• Dead End

  Beaten, hanged, strangled, and ignored, these men and a woman lost their lives in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's custody

  By John Dickerson
  December 20, 2007

• Inmates' Rights Lawsuit Languishes

  The unresolved Hart vs. Hill suit was filed 30 years ago in federal court. It brings up the same jailhouse abuses that occur today

  By John Dickerson
  December 20, 2007

• Inhumanity Has a Price

  Corpses, a flesh-eating virus, the most-sued sheriff in America. Lawsuits against Joe Arpaio have cost us $41 million, so far

  By John Dickerson
  December 20, 2007

• Information Blockade

  The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

  By Ray Stern
  December 13, 2007

• Power Play

  County law enforcement's attack on the judiciary didn't work, but the war's far from over

  By Paul Rubin
  December 06, 2007

• Kentucky-Fried Joe

  The comedic kestrel makes the Joe Show in Sun City West, shares a few Joe jokes of his own, and grills state Representative Russell Pearce about his links to white supremacists

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  December 06, 2007

• Siege Mentality

  County Attorney Andrew Thomas is attempting to capitalize on a national trend by attacking local judges

  By Paul Rubin
  December 06, 2007

• Enemies List

  Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas just may be targeting you

  By Sarah Fenske
  November 29, 2007

• Extraordinary Contempt

  A judge describes former Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik�s actions against New Times as threatening to the average citizen

  By Michael Lacey
  November 29, 2007

• Wilenchik's a Liar, and There's More

  Besides personally demanding our arrests, Andy Thomas' special prosecutor sought to bankrupt New Times over a misdemeanor and lock up our lawyers

  By Michael Lacey
  November 15, 2007

• He Just Doesn't Get It

  Dennis Wilenchik issued hugely invasive subpoenas to New Times without grand jury review

  By Michael Lacey
  November 01, 2007

• Who's Sorry Now?

  Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants us to apologize to Sheriff Joe. Fat chance

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 25, 2007

• Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution

  Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas and Dennis Wilenchik hit New Times with grand jury subpoenas

  By Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin
  October 18, 2007

• Do Svidanya, Joe

  The vexed vulture swoops down on mean ol' Sheriff Joe, then sides with a nativist (for a change) against the mothers of MADD

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  October 18, 2007

• Pitiless P-Town

  The cranky cockatoo slams callous P-towners, pecks away at (sigh . . .) another bogus "plot" to off Sheriff Joe, and profiles the "Mexican Mutant"

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  October 11, 2007

• Vick-timization

  Backstabbing in Buckeye, DMX's doggy woes, and nativist grandstanding over Officer Erfle's murder p.o. P-town's prickly pelican

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  September 27, 2007

• Below the Belt

  Lawyer Dennis Wilenchik's spearheading Joe Arpaio's attempt to smear his chief political rival

  By Paul Rubin
  September 20, 2007

• Redneck Touchdown

  The belligerent buzzard performs a postmortem on the latest immigration battles, denounces attorney Dennis Wilenchik's hypocrisy, and chases after Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  July 05, 2007

• Useful Idiots

  The pissed-off puffin paddles fellow journalists, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and an FBI monkey-spanker at U of A

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  May 31, 2007

• Mail Order Joe

  The cranky cockatoo criticizes Sheriff Joe's new jail mail policy, and agitates the agitators at last week's kooky counter-protest

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  May 10, 2007

• King of Pain

  Sheriff Joe crowns himself anti-corruption kingfish and J.T. Ready looks for race friends on Newsaxon.com

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  April 26, 2007

• How Convenient!

  The Bird asks Pinal County: Want to get somebody deserving indicted? Try Joe Arpaio underling David Hendershott, for destroying evidence

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  February 01, 2007

• Boob's Tube

  Here's how publicity hound Joe Arpaio used a TV station to try to destroy rival Dan Saban with a bogus rape claim

  By Paul Rubin
  January 25, 2007

• Westcor Weenies

  This raucous raven demands: Is Westcor taking a cue from the Jim Crow South, or is io's closing really about a lame-o lease dispute?

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  January 11, 2007

• Joe Strikes Back

  This vigilant vulture crafts a Christmas card to Sheriff Joe, as the Pinal County Attorney's Office threatens to seek a felony indictment against New Times

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  December 21, 2006

• Reality Check

  Let's get this straight: Lots of voters think Janet Napolitano's a closeted lesbian, but she's against Prop 107 and gay marriage?!

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
  November 02, 2006

• Bully Pulpit

  County Attorney Andy Thomas has not only steered a lot of business to his old law firm, he has hired his old boss to harass Sheriff Joe Arpaio's chief political rival

  By John Dougherty
  June 29, 2006

• The Cost of Cruelty

  A federal jury returned a $9 million verdict against Maricopa County in still another jailhouse death

  By John Dougherty
  March 30, 2006

• Judging Andy

  With leaders like Andrew Thomas, Joe Arpaio and Bishop Olmsted around, who says Arizona's a cruel place to live?!

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
  March 23, 2006

• Mexican Busting

  The plumed wonder examines the racial politics of Andy Thomas, then swoops over Sharon Stonewaller and Tent City, where Shaq and a local actor were inside the razor wire

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
  January 19, 2006

• Gomer, You're Fired!

  Our feathered fiend bombs Trump-haters, racist soccer moms, Uncle Joe and the ACLU. Who's gonna be next?

  From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
  November 03, 2005

• J. Edgar Arpaio

  Sheriff Joe's fashioning himself after the late FBI director, only (we think) without the women's underwear

  By John Dougherty
  October 06, 2005

• Bird in Hand

  U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton has a rare opportunity to investigate Sheriff Joke. Will he do it?

  By John Dougherty
  August 18, 2005

• Histrionics Lesson

  Again, a judge bends over and allows Sheriff Joe Arpaio to sneer at Arizona's public records law

  By John Dougherty
  August 11, 2005

• Assisted Suicide

  A county psychiatrist's indifferent treatment of a disturbed inmate leads to a courthouse hanging

  By Paul Rubin
  June 02, 2005

• Enemies List

  Arpaio haters, perceived and otherwise, beware! Looks like Joe's up to his old tricks

  By John Dougherty
  April 28, 2005

• Turn Up the Heat

  Napolitano should get behind the state's new fire marshal and force Tent City's closure

  By John Dougherty
  February 24, 2005

• Litmus Test

  County Attorney Andy Thomas must prove he can protect our constitutional rights

  By John Dougherty
  February 17, 2005

• Recall Joe!

  That's what a group led by the well-connected family of one of Arpaio's own injured deputies is working to see happen

  By John Dougherty
  February 10, 2005

• Gutless Wonders

  Here's an idea, county supes: Audit the freakin' sheriff's office for the first time ever!

  By John Dougherty
  January 13, 2005

• Dangerous Dance

  Ominous storm clouds threaten to trample the Constitution and turn our republic into a theocracy.

  John Dougherty
  November 11, 2004

• Pariah Joe

  Dan Saban turns over materials to the FBI showing alleged improprieties by Arpaio and the MCSO.

  By John Dougherty
  October 21, 2004

• We Sue the Coward of the County

  Arpaio's ditsy chief flack Lisa Allen MacPherson tells us to take her boss to court, so . . .

  By Rick Barrs
  September 30, 2004

• Say No to Joe

  Voters have the best chance ever of kicking Outlaw Joe to the curb on September 7.

  By John Dougherty
  September 02, 2004

• Jailgate Explodes

  A new poll shows Outlaw Joe Arpaio's popularity plummeting among county Republicans

  By John Dougherty
  August 26, 2004

• Special Treatment

  Is justice for sale? Ask privileged characters like Jerry Colangelo

  John Dougherty
  August 19, 2004

• Paranoia Reigns

  Pissed at Joe's insanity, Senator John McCain makes it official: He endorses Saban.

  By John Dougherty
  August 12, 2004

• Turning Up the Heat

  There's a difference between justice and vengefulness -- something that's lost on Sheriff Joke.

  By John Dougherty
  July 29, 2004

• Outlaw Joe

  One of Arpaio's own deputies testifies about how the MCSO smeared Dan Saban.

  By John Dougherty
  July 22, 2004

• Arpaio's Running Scared

  The powerful Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona and Senator John McCain want Sheriff Joke gone

  By John Dougherty
  July 15, 2004

• Stick It to 'Em!

  The Phoenix City Council can't sanction the $350 million, city-owned convention center hotel. By law, a referendum must be held.

  By John Dougherty
  July 08, 2004

• Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game

  Arpaio's invested $690,000 in cash in two commercial properties since 1995. Some other investment records are sealed.

  By John Dougherty
  July 01, 2004

• In the Crosshairs

  County lawmen boffing hookers isn't Sheriff Joe's only problem. Fed up with his thuggery, Arpaio's own political party has targeted him for defeat

  By John Dougherty
  June 24, 2004

• False Positive

  Is Joe Arpaio up to his same old dirty tricks? This time, a man's life may be at stake.

  By Robert Nelson
  February 19, 2004

• The Trial

  Existential nightmare? Nah, just Joe Arpaio destroying a political enemy

  By Robert Nelson
  December 25, 2003

• Spiked

  Sheriff Arpaio's popularity spikes

  August 07, 2003

• Heir Apparent

  The Joe Show has finally met its match in W. Steven Martin

  By Robert Nelson
  June 12, 2003

• Spiked

  Bad jokes and corporate canoodling sum up Cinco affair

  May 22, 2003

• Gag of an Order

  New Times really hit a nerve this time. Sheriff Joe wants a federal judge to shut us up.

  By Robert Nelson
  March 06, 2003

• Jailhouse Justice

  New evidence suggests Sheriff Joe's running his empire as if it were a Mexican prison

  By Robert Nelson
  January 23, 2003

• Jail Bait

  A prisoner was nearly beaten to death behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Was he set up by Sheriff Joe's henchmen?

  By Robert Nelson
  December 26, 2002

• Unlikely Unabomber

  One of Arpaio's grandest busts faces a serious legal challenge

  By John Dougherty
  December 19, 2002

• Diary of a Madman, Part 2

  Joe Arpaio really has become a dangerous man

  By Robert Nelson
  November 14, 2002

• Trick or Threat

  On Halloween, Joe Arpaio and his men set a new low for police harassment

  By Robert Nelson
  November 07, 2002

• Goon Squad

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a documented history of abusing his power to destroy enemies. Now he's at it again.

  By Robert Nelson
  September 19, 2002

• Garden Parties

  Campaign funds from the big house, tales from the greenhouse

  As told to Patti Epler
  April 04, 2002

• Torture Chamber

  Did Eric Vogel die because of another beating in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail?

  By Robert Nelson
  March 14, 2002

• Serious Business

  If Joe Arpaio runs for governor, he'll win if people forget he's a madman

  By Robert Nelson
  March 07, 2002

• Artless Redesign

  The 51 may soon become just another crappy little freeway

  As told to Patti Epler
  February 21, 2002

• Pay Back

  Promoter David Hans Schmidt mouthed off to the cops, the county attorney and Sheriff Joe. He believes it landed him back in jail.

  By Robert Nelson
  August 23, 2001

• Spleen Man

  No guts, no glory for over-the-top PR guy

  By Robert Nelson
  July 26, 2001

• Joe Arpaio's Balloon Payments

  It hasn't been cheap keeping the Joe Show aloft. Now, his employees, his inmates and the citizens of Maricopa County are paying the price.

  By Robert Nelson
  April 05, 2001

• Web Feat

  Judge grants Arpaio injunction against threats

  By Robert Nelson
  March 15, 2001

• High-Speed Chaste

  Will county auditors be Arpaio's Waterloo?

  By Jeremy Voas
  January 25, 2001

• Muck My Day

  Sheriff candidate fears dirty politics

  By Robert Nelson
  September 21, 2000

• Posse Galore

  Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  By Robert Nelson
  August 24, 2000

• Soft Cell

  Special handling for a federal prosecutor's drunken-driving case sparks controversy in sheriff's ranks

  By Robert Nelson
  August 03, 2000

• Flashes 02-24-2000

  February 24, 2000

• Per Verse

  By David Holthouse
  October 14, 1999

• Chain Reaction

  Why some inmates dig the pauper-planting female chain gang

  By Paolo Vescia, Terry Greene Sterling
  September 23, 1999

• The Plot To Assassinate Arpaio

  It was a diabolical scheme. Problem is, most of it was hatched by the Sheriff's Office.

  By John Dougherty
  August 05, 1999

• Flashes

  June 17, 1999

• Moving Target

  Vocal leader of deputy's group is candidate for dismissal

  By Tony Ortega
  June 10, 1999

• Flashes

  June 03, 1999

• Blowing His Cool

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio is trying to fire another deputy who alleges wrongdoing in the sheriff's office

  By Tony Ortega
  May 27, 1999

• Underwear Under Scrutiny

  FBI subpoenas Posse Foundation records of sale of pink boxers

  By Tony Ortega
  May 13, 1999

• The Jokemobile

  May 13, 1999

• 109 Degrees of Incarceration

  County inmate Lance Hawthorne died in a cell whose vent had been closed as a form of punishment

  By Tony Ortega
  May 06, 1999

• Flashes

  April 29, 1999

• Insider Account

  One of sheriff's former henchmen tells of dubious tactics

  By Tony Ortega
  April 29, 1999

• Flashes

  April 22, 1999

• Detention Mounts

  County jails are understaffed, but there seems to be plenty of money for the sheriff's pet projects

  By Tony Ortega
  April 22, 1999

• Lies and Videotape

  In an apparent repeat of its behavior in the Norberg case, the sheriff's office withheld key evidence from litigant

  By Tony Ortega
  April 15, 1999

• Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix

  Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

  By David Holthouse
  April 15, 1999

• Joe's Spies

  Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

  By Tony Ortega
  March 25, 1999

• Flashes

  February 18, 1999

• Flashes

  From the week of February 11, 1999

  February 11, 1999

• The $8 Million Victim

  Norberg family accepts hefty settlement in jail suit. Are similar payouts in Arpaio's future?

  By Tony Ortega
  January 14, 1999

• Flashes

  January 14, 1999

• Tweaking the Truth

  Sheriff's office reluctantly turns over drug report on dead inmate

  By Tony Ortega
  December 17, 1998

• Flashes

  December 10, 1998

• Fed Up

  The Justice Department investigates the county sheriff's officeagain

  By Tony Ortega
  December 10, 1998

• America's Toughest Suspects

  Is Sheriff Joe's pink underwear in Bureau's drawer?

  By Tony Ortega
  December 03, 1998

• Affidavit Versus Goliath

  A former lieutenant accuses top sheriff's officials of misconduct in firing of "dime dropper" deputy

  By Tony Ortega
  November 26, 1998

• Flashes

  October 22, 1998

• Billion-Dollar Bad Guys

  The county's jails are crammed full. But not with the dangerous felons backers of an initiative to raise money for new jails would have you believe.

  By Tony Ortega
  September 24, 1998

• Premature Articulation

  Sheriff spokeswoman spoke too soon

  By Tony Ortega
  September 17, 1998

• Sheriff's Cover-up?

  Lawyer for dead inmate's kin accuses county of "intentional destruction" of key evidence

  By Tony Ortega
  September 10, 1998

• Flashes

  September 03, 1998

• Paying the Price

  The sheriff's not talking, but records reveal that taxpayers are spending big bucks to defend controversial jail operations

  By Tony Ortega
  August 27, 1998

• High Goon

  By Barry Graham
  July 16, 1998

• Flashes

  July 16, 1998

• Shield of Dreams

  Memo to Romley from Arpaio: You don't need no stinkin' badges!

  By Amy Silverman, Paul Rubin
  July 09, 1998

• Flashes

  June 04, 1998

• Flashes

  May 14, 1998

• Flashes

  April 30, 1998

• Flashes

  April 16, 1998

• Undie-Gate

  Public shouldn't see Posse Foundation records, judge rules

  By Tony Ortega
  April 02, 1998

• Gulag-Rolling

  By Barry Graham
  January 22, 1998

• Hog-Tied by the Truth

  For the second time, a federal investigator has found appalling conditions in the county jails

  By Tony Ortega
  January 15, 1998

• Flashes

  November 27, 1997

• U.S. Lawsuit Re-Alleges Abuse in Jails

  By Tony Ortega
  November 06, 1997

• Doubting Thomas

  Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.

  By Tony Ortega
  November 06, 1997

• Joe, Jane & John

  By Barry Graham
  October 30, 1997

• Iceland 5, Arpaio 0

  Iceland supreme court unanimously opposes grandparents' extradition to county jails

  By Tony Ortega
  October 23, 1997

• Flashes

  October 23, 1997

• Flashes

  September 25, 1997

• Human Plights

  International group urges immediate stop to Arpaio jail practices

  By Tony Ortega
  September 18, 1997

• Blind Ambition

  By Jeremy Voas
  August 28, 1997

• Flashes

  July 31, 1997

• Keeping 'em in Stitches

  Crohn's disease sufferer Damon Dreckmeier was sentenced to 111 days in the county jail. Denied a few dollars' worth of daily prescription medication, he was rushed to the hospital five times, undergoing two surgeries. Taxpayers will pay for his treatment,

  By Tony Ortega
  July 24, 1997

• Flashes

  July 17, 1997

• Public Pays in Jail Death

  County pays $50,000 in case of inmate who committed suicide while jailers watched a video of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  By Tony Ortega
  July 17, 1997

• Nice Land

  Icelandic judge stays extradition, saying Arpaio's jails violate standards of humane treatment

  By Tony Ortega
  July 10, 1997

• Say It Ain't Joe

  By Jeremy Voas
  June 12, 1997

• A Hoss-Style Witness

  May 29, 1997

• Joe Assumes Deposition

  Arpaio tries to distance himself from pronouncements about punishing inmates

  By Tony Ortega
  May 29, 1997

• Arpaio Über Nicht

  By Tony Ortega
  May 22, 1997

• Flashes

  March 27, 1997

• Flashes

  March 20, 1997

• Flashes

  March 06, 1997

• Flashes

  February 20, 1997

• Flashes

  February 13, 1997

• Jailers Show a Paraplegic Who's Boss

  Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

  By Tony Ortega
  January 23, 1997

• Jail Suits Could Cost County Taxpayers Tens of Millions

  By Tony Ortega
  January 23, 1997

• Flashes

  December 26, 1996

• Flashes

  December 19, 1996

• Flashes

  December 12, 1996

• Letters From Jail

  December 05, 1996

• Drear Diary

  December 05, 1996

• Flashes

  December 05, 1996

• Barbarism As a Public Relations Strategy

  By John Mecklin
  December 05, 1996

• A New Apparatchik in Joe's Politburo

  By Tony Ortega
  November 28, 1996

• Bagels and Locks

  Complaints about tainted food and inmate abuse pour forth in wake of Tent City riot

  By Tony Ortega
  November 28, 1996

• Flashes

  November 21, 1996

• There's No Accounting for Joe's Posses

  Sheriff thumbs nose at Public Records Law, refuses to disclose how posses collect and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars

  By Tony Ortega
  November 14, 1996

• Sanitized for Joe's Protection

  Sheriff's summary of probe into inmate's death omits alarming details

  By Tony Ortega
  October 24, 1996

• Young and Arrestless

  Law enforcement neophyte narrowly fails to make ballot; will continue write-in campaign against Arpaio

  By David Holthouse
  September 19, 1996

• Hangin' With Sheriff Joe

  Two inmates commit suicide in the space of a week; feds had warned Arpaio of unsafe "overhanging structures"

  By Tony Ortega
  August 22, 1996

• First Pink Underwear, Now Pink Slip

  Sheriff Arpaio intends to fire a patrol sergeant who allegedly talked to the press

  By Tony Ortega
  August 15, 1996

• Flashes

  June 27, 1996

• The Shadiest Guns in the West

  When it comes to ethics, some of Sheriff Joe's top aides take after their boss

  By Tony Ortega
  June 27, 1996

• Flashes

  June 20, 1996

• Flashes

  June 13, 1996

• Tent City Beating is Nearly Fatal

  By Tony Ortega
  June 06, 1996

• Death and Laxness

  If the jailers had paid attention, they might have noticed that Jose Rodriquez was dying

  By Amy Silverman
  June 06, 1996

• Arpaio Tries to Plug Leaks

  Sheriff's Office suspends, transfers officers suspected of talking to New Times

  By Tony Ortega
  May 23, 1996

• Mutiny At The County

  Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

  By Tony Ortega
  April 25, 1996

• Flashes

  April 18, 1996

• Grave Misgivings

  Why some people don't dig Sheriff Arpaio's chain-gang pauper burials

  By Paul Rubin
  April 04, 1996

• Flashes

  March 21, 1996

• Tepid Response Force

  The county attorney promises to get to the bottom of Sheriff Arpaio's spending--by asking for a state audit that was already scheduled

  By Tony Ortega
  February 22, 1996

• Joe Enhancement Fund

  Sheriff Arpaio used jail-enhancement funds to pay for a lawsuit and videos of hisTV appearances

  By Tony Ortega
  February 08, 1996

• Sentence: 90 Days of Pain

  Jail inmate with 50 bullet fragments in arm waits months for medical treatment

  By John Dougherty
  December 07, 1995

• NEWS BLACKOUT

  By John Mecklin
  September 21, 1995

• FEDS PROBE ALLEGED ABUSE IN COUNTY JAILJOE ARPAIO'S FAMOUS JAIL IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

  By Amy Silverman
  August 31, 1995

• FLASHES

  August 23, 1995

• JOE ARPAIO'S TENT CITY

  By Dave Walker
  January 20, 1994

• JAILHOUSE BLUES

  PACK 'EM IN AND TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS. THAT'S SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO'S PHILOSOPHY

  By John Dougherty
  November 24, 1993

• WHAT PART OF A HORSE'S ANATOMY IS JOE ARPAIO?

  By Tom Fitzpatrick
  November 24, 1993

Citizens Killed

While Incarcerated

• 
  Charles Agster III
  Died: Aug. 2001
• 
  Clint Yarbrough
  Died: Dec. 2005
• 
  Deborah Braillard
  Died: Jan. 2005
• 
  Brian Crenshaw
  Died: Mar. 2005
• 
  Scott Norberg
  Died: June 1996
• 
  Phillip Wilson
  Died: July 2003

Animals Killed

• Dog Day Afternoon

  Sheriff Joe's goons launched an assault to make a misdemeanor arrest. The Raid left a burned house, a terrified neighborhood and a dead dog

  By John Dougherty
   
  August 05, 2004
   
  Justin Delfino looked out the window of his Ahwatukee home and couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was shortly... More >>
   

Feathered Bastard
By Stephen Lemons

Read the latest on Sherrif joe 

 

For more than 15 years, Phoenix New Times has reported on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's serious abuse of power. The self-described "Toughest Sheriff in America" has fostered horrendous jail conditions, reckless police operations, and carried out personal vendettas against political rivals and members of the press. In the last year or more, he has also appointed himself enforcer of the nation's immigration laws in Arizona, and a whole new series of problems has emerged. Foremost, he and his deputies have violated the Constitutional rights of brown-skinned U.S. citizens and have committed outright cruelty against the undocumented. This year, the U.S. Justice Department has commenced an investigation of his actions.

Target Practice

• The Feds Proved Themselves a Cage of Cowardly Lions in the Arpaio Investigation

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 06, 2012
  At the conclusion of her four-page letter to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, explaining the Arizona U.S.... More >>

• The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

  By Ray Stern
  May 26, 2011
  Soon after becoming head of the Maricopa Anti-Corruption Enforcement team under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Bill Knight became... More >>

• Andrew Thomas May End Up Disbarred, But He Really Belongs in a Prison Cell

  By Stephen Lemons
  December 09, 2010
  CHICKENS COME HOME Embattled ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' recent, crybaby press conference on the steps of... More >>
More Target Practice >>

Jail Conditions

• Arpaio Snuggles Up to an Ex-Inmate in His Cynical Bid for a Sixth Term

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 20, 2012
  How stupid does Sheriff Joe Arpaio think the citizens of Maricopa County are? At least as stupid as "Randall," a... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Turns a Blind Eye to Jailhouse Justice

  By Paul Rubin
  June 14, 2012
  A  few months ago, Alan DeLong sat down to watch a new reality show on the Discovery Channel. First Week In goes... More >>

• Jailhouse Goons Make Fun Of and Kill a Mentally Ill Inmate

  By Stephen Lemons
  June 14, 2012
  It takes a twisted individual to delight in the sufferings of the mentally ill. A special type of sick, sadistic bully.... More >>
More Jail Conditions >>

Wasting Money

• Arpaio Awaits Justice as Election Looms

  By Michael Lacey
  November 01, 2012
  Editor's note: Michael Lacey is the former co-owner of Village Voice Media. He and his partner sold VVM to senior... More >>

• Sheriff Joe Sure Ain't a Conservative, and Here's Why

  By Stephen Lemons
  October 25, 2012
  What is it about Sheriff Joe Arpaio that makes the Tea Party animals go wild? Is it his corpse-like demeanor, his way... More >>

• Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

  By Ray Stern
  February 16, 2012
  Late 2005 to October 2007 was not a good time to be raped or molested in El Mirage. During that time, the town had... More >>
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Politics and Paranoia

• Arpaio Awaits Justice as Election Looms

  By Michael Lacey
  November 01, 2012
  Editor's note: Michael Lacey is the former co-owner of Village Voice Media. He and his partner sold VVM to senior... More >>

• The Feds Proved Themselves a Cage of Cowardly Lions in the Arpaio Investigation

  By Stephen Lemons
  September 06, 2012
  At the conclusion of her four-page letter to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, explaining the Arizona U.S.... More >>

• Mike Stauffer's Third-Wheel Bid for Sheriff May Keep Arpaio in Office

  By Stephen Lemons
  July 12, 2012
  One day after defending himself at a candidates' forum for keeping his day job as a lieutenant with the Scottsdale Police... More >>
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