Sheriff's Office to transport inmates via light rail (Sheriff Joe Arpaio)

This is probably too local to post in LBN, but I was so outraged, I had to post it somewhere....

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled a plan Tuesday to avoid airport parking fees by transporting inmates on the Metro light rail, but officials claim that parking is already free.

Arpaio said he planned to transport extradited inmates using the light rail from 44th and Washington streets to the Fourth Avenue Jail in order to eliminate parking fees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. MCSO estimates that the new system can save about $72,000 in transport fees.

Arpaio said free parking offered to law enforcement agencies was revoked several years ago and MCSO has been paying $25 per day for each car parked at the airport. Sky Harbor officials said Tuesday that all state law enforcement agencies have access to free and secure parking as long as they notify the Airport Police Bureau in advance.

“Law enforcement officers park in a secure location at the airport and the officer and their prisoners are transported by Phoenix Police to their airline gate,” Deborah Ostreicher, Deputy Aviation Director for Sky Harbor, said in an e-mail. “The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office currently (uses) this service.”

http://www.azcentral.com/news/traffic/lightrail/articles/2009/01/27/20090127abrk-inmatelightrail.html

Another reporter did the math, and in order to rack up $72,000 in transport fees, there would have to be 3 prisoner transfers per hour, which is obviously not the case.

When will we be free of this lunatic?!?!?!?


on edit: typo in thread title

his tactics have made any difference in crime rates or saved them one dime in taxes. Or he drops dead.

Because those people will never get their heads out of their asses, they just love Sheriff Joe!

As long as the voters of Maricopa County keep re-electing the lunatic, you're stuck with him.

But then this would make the voters that keep supporting him, lunatics who think sadism is a law enforcement tool. In Pima county Dupnik was bad enough, but compared to Arpaio, the man's a saint.

Phoenix is a popular retirement destination due to the weather

Old folks are extra concerned about their safety

a lot of them are RW too.

joe sucks up to their fears

I think there should be a years long waiting period before they can vote in local elections

(no, don't live their nor have I ever. Just stream Nova M all day)

Or else they'd be crying bloody murder about some of that psycho's policies.

and are afraid of the other

Blame them for all of the crime

and want them controlled

It sucks but not sure what to do about it

Old dogs, new tricks............

And, as in many semi-rural areas, the lowest common denominator will keep him in office.