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<h4>Ethics and Elections</h4> <p class="top">Arpaio abuses his power. Arpaio plays dirty. But at no time is Arpaio’s malevolence more apparent than during an election. Arpaio has used inmates to mail hundreds of thousands of early ballots to his supporters. He has raided the homes and businesses of political opponents. And he won’t hesitate to launch an unsubstantiated smear campaign through his connections in the local media. </p> <p>During the September 7th Republican primary Arpaio received a call from one of the many childhood foster mothers of his political opponent, Dan Saban. In the call to Arpaio Ruby Norman alleged that Saban had sexually abused her <i>over thirty years ago</i>. Arpaio seized the opportunity. He dispatched a “threat” squad to interview Ruby and then launched an investigation. Even if the allegations were true the sheriff’s office could never act upon them. The statute of limitations detailing the window of time in which Ruby had to file a complaint against Saban had long since expired. The details of the investigation were immediately leaked to a Channel 15 news reporter. The reporter, who had contributed to Arpaio’s re-election campaign, was later fired for his involvement in the story. </p> <p>After the story was aired Saban’s attorneys immediately requested a copy of the investigation. They never got one. After Arpaio had gotten sufficient news coverage of the scandal he transferred the investigation to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office where it was immediately dropped because the statue of limitations had expired.</p> <p>Three weeks after the general election Arpaio began the task of transferring over three hundred officers and supervisors, one-fourth of his staff. Reorganizations of this size are extremely unusual. Officers who supported him by making campaign contributions or filing petitions were promoted or given more desirable assignments like lake patrol. Those who supported Saban were given less desirable duties. Not a single Saban supporter was promoted. Larry Black, Chief of Enforcement for the sheriff's office, swears the unprecedented reorganization was not politically motivated. <br> </p> <h4>Conclusion</h4> <p>I’m sure that this seems like an awful lot of information but all of this is only an introduction. The more you research you do on your own the more astounded you’ll become. It’s impossible to efficiently summarize the thousands of cases of human rights violations. It’s impossible to provide an accurate estimation of the millions of dollars Maricopa County will be paying out to the victims of Arpaio’s egotistical malfeasance. It’s enough to imagine. Why does Joe have to go? 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