Sheriff Joe Arpaio has always done it his way

The office of 'America's Toughest Sheriff' has cost the county millions of dollars,
and he may be facing his toughest court fight ever.


Joe Arpaio’s office is as big as his ego.

It sits atop the headquarters that the Maricopa County supervisors built for him on Jackson Street in 2013,
part fortress and part temple to America’s Toughest Sheriff. And though Arpaio is not a large man, he fills
the room, from the oversized desk at one end to the oversized conference table at the other.

He speaks of himself in the third person; he pounds his fists on the table as he speaks.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, at his massive office in Phoenix,

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, at his massive office in Phoenix, says he has every intention of running for
a seventh term in 2016.

“This sheriff has been elected six times,” he said in an interview. “He must be doing something right.
So the people must like this sheriff.”


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