Joe Arpaio will cost the treasury millions.
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An amount of $ 202 million must be paid in the most populous county in Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Due to a lawsuit for discrimination against immigrants against Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio for the police operations ordered in the Phoenix metropolitan area, a decade ago.
These Costs are estimated through 2022 and may continue to rise until Maricopa County Police complete their body restructuring and internal affairs operations are also restructured for three years in a row.
Although the police indicate in figures that it is already 100% compliant, however, the office of the Sheriff’s office is said to still not fully comply with the restructuring.
That’s why attorney costs are being borne, indirectly, by county taxpayers, as well as court-ordered restructuring of the police.
In 2013, a court verdict ruled that the police officers coordinated by Arpaio had discriminated against Hispanics at the time of their arrest, in what was a transit operation to stop immigrants.
The Sheriff, in 2017, was declared Guilty of criminal contempt for disobeying the court order to suspend its operations against immigrants. Later, just a month later, Republican President Donald Trump pardoned him of that crime.
A tentative budget for the county for $ 31 million was approved Monday to cover the costs of complying with the court order.
Joe Arpaio, now 88, who was a local authority in the metropolitan area from 1992 to 2016, was known for having a “strong hand” against crime during his 24 years at the police headquarters.
One of the known abuses in their methods was forcing prisoners to wear pink underwear and leaving them in tents exposed to the desert heat.
In this sense, Arpaio said this week that he was not sorry for coordinating these operations to detain immigrants, because according to the official “this helped reduce the costs of the taxpayers destined to health and education destined to undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Other accusations that the former official has received are: abuse of power, inappropriate use of public funds, negligence in investigating crimes of a sexual nature, illegal resolution of criminal cases, illegal imposition of anti-immigration laws, among others.
This ex-cop is known as the most severe face of the authority in Arizona and it seems that he is not going to pay for all the abuses committed in this regard.
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