Taxpayers to foot bill for Arpaio's defiance of court order

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PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers already on the hook for $54 million in a racial profiling case against the longtime sheriff of metro Phoenix are about to get walloped with another worrisome cost.

Hundreds of Latinos will be able to seek money from the county government in the future for being illegally detained when Sheriff Joe Arpaio disobeyed a judge's order to stop his immigration patrols.

Two weeks ago, a federal judge concluded that the lawman knowingly ignored the 2011 order because he believed continuing his immigration enforcement efforts would help his 2012 re-election campaign.

Even though the judge says hundreds of Latinos at a minimum were harmed by the sheriff's defiance, the difficulties of finding victims might keep down the costs to taxpayers.

Some victims are immigrants who have returned to their home countries or moved on to jobs elsewhere in the United States. And many sheriff's deputies didn't keep records for the detentions in question.

another disaster of a human being.