Add this to the $50 million dollars that Arpaio has already cost Arizonans.
A federal judge on Thursday awarded more than $4.4 million to attorneys who won a long-running racial profiling case against the operations of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, although that pared the sum plaintiffs' lawyers had sought by about a third.
The case, which was originally filed in 2007, tested whether police could target undocumented immigrants without also profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin.
In May 2013, the trial judge found that racial profiling had occurred during traffic stops and that drivers were being detained for too long. Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, has denied any profiling occurred and has appealed the ruling.
Arpaio's leadership at MCSO has cost residents about
$25 million in wrongful death suits, which is "just the cost of doing business."
Just yesterday, the MCSO settled another suit involving the death of an inmate.
Racial Profiling, investigating enemies, treating prisoners poorly, and allowing inmate deaths......
When are Maricopa County voters going to get rid of this scourge on our state?