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Pervert..birds of a feather
PHOENIX Sheriff Joe Arpaio turned off one of his "jail cams" that showed female inmates using a toilet, a view that could be accessed via the Internet.
The decision followed complaints from inmate rights groups and the state attorney general.
Donna Hamm, director of Middle Ground, an inmate-rights group in Tempe, said Thursday that the camera exploited the women and was linked to pornographic sites on the Internet. She asked the Justice Department to investigate for civil rights violations.
Jack MacIntyre, an attorney for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, told the Arizona Republic that a short partition blocked the camera's view of the toilet itself. No juveniles would have been displayed unless they "look older and lie to us."
A camera misalignment was corrected after the attorney general's complaint, but no women could be seen using the toilet, the sheriff's office said.
A Web surfer could see the view on a site called crime.com by providing a name and e-mail address and completing a consumer survey. Arpaio said his office got no revenue from the Santa Monica organization that operates the site. The organization didn't respond to calls seeking comment.
"First live Web cam from inside a working jail. You may see violence or sexually inappropriate behavior," the site says beneath a small picture said to be a view from one of the jail cameras, which also focus on holding and search cells.
Arpaio said he has done nothing wrong and that the rest of the Web cameras will stay.
Arpaio, dubbed the "nation's toughest sheriff," has gained widespread publicity for such practices as housing prisoners in tents, dressing them in pink underwear and re-establishing chain gangs in old-fashioned striped uniforms. He also banned coffee, R-rated movies and magazines showing nudes.
When the Web cameras were installed in July, Arpaio said they would be educational and a deterrent because people being booked would know they could be seen by anyone anywhere. An Arizona Civil Liberties Union official called the display an invasion of privacy because many people who would be seen hadn't been convicted.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/28/news/mn-56746
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)dalton99a
(81,568 posts)just like the orange Nazi
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)I have this 2009 New Yorker article in a tab to read tomorrow:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/07/20/sheriff-joe
I feel that misogyny is often left out when discussing these assholes. It is ALWAYS present with them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Very telling statement from the article. He is a sick, sick man.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)How anyone can just write off this pardon with a shrug when it violates not only every standard for presidential pardons, but carried out in the way in which it was carried out and with a subject who is completely unrepentant of his diabolical behavior....that's just beyond me. I'm sure Trumps racist base is cheering this travesty, this miscarriage of justice, and this twisting of the rule of law! Fuck both of these assholes and, selfishly, double fucks to Trump for denying the world seeing Arpaio in his own pink skivvies, wallowing in a world of his own creation!
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)His kinda guy.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Basically the only thing that kept me going from my Jr. year in HS through my graduation from ASU. Then I got the fuck out of the ignorant hell hole known as PHX and drove west. Thanks to NewTimes and Jana Bommersbach for staying and fighting against the ignorant repukes in AZ. God bless her and the staff at NewTimes.
p.s., twenty miles outside of PHX on May 24, 1985, I broke into a big smile and NEVER regretted leaving those ignorant assholes.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)once...
Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)dembotoz
(16,826 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)dembotoz
(16,826 posts)loyalty
wants the wall
law enforcement admin background
hates the correct minority
think he would be too old but you never know