Isn't it just like a criminal pug to blame someone else when the beans are spilled?

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/09/joe_arpaio_knows_all_and_david.php


courtesy of Dennis Gilman
Sure, Dave Hendershott's a scoundrel, but it's Arpaio whom all inquiries should aim for.

Many of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ex-aides and critics agree on one thing: Despite Deputy Chief Frank Munnell's recent memo portraying Arpaio as a hapless figurehead (a memo you can read, here) it's the sheriff who rules the MCSO.

As I discussed in a blog item earlier today, this narrative depicting Chief Deputy David Hendershott as a maniacal villain who has betrayed his clueless superior doesn't wash, even though much of the local media is still KrazyGlued to the idea.

Joe's own words and deeds, the testimony of his former subordinates, indeed the record of his 17-year reign as Maricopa County's top cop, all suggest that if Hendershott is guilty of the corruption described in Munnell's memo, then, if anything, Arpaio is guiltier.

"Joe knows everything that goes on," Tom Bearup, Arpaio's right-hand man before Hendershott's ascension told me. "Because I've been there. And I know that nothing goes on in that office without . Every policy he initialed. Anything major that happened, people would go and tell him, because they felt intimidated."