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Where was the state police. Why didn’t these people elevate their complaint. There was an injustice done and the victim just accepted it? If I as much as got an undeserved parking ticket I start with the chief of police and go through sheriff, the local state police commander and all the way to the governor.
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Critics: 'Tough' sheriff botched sex-crime cases
By JACQUES BILLEAUD | AP – 5 hrs ago
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EL MIRAGE, Ariz. (AP) — The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her.
Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the middle of the night by her mother's live-in boyfriend. She woke up in her room at least twice a week to find him standing over her, claiming to be looking for her mother's cell phone.
Both cases were among more than 400 sex-crimes reported to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office during a three-year period ending in 2007 — including dozens of alleged child molestations — that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all, according to current and former police officers familiar with the cases.
In El Mirage alone, where Arpaio's office was providing contract police services, officials discovered at least 32 reported child molestations — with victims as young as 2 years old — where the sheriff's office failed to follow through, even though suspects were known in all but six cases.
Many of the victims, said a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, were children of illegal immigrants.
The botched sex-crimes investigations have served as an embarrassment to a department whose sheriff is the self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff" and a national hero to conservatives on the immigration issue.
Arpaio's office refused several requests over a period of months to answer questions about the investigations and declined a public records request for an internal affairs report, citing potential disciplinary actions.
Brian Sands, a top sheriff's official who is in charge of the potential discipline of any responsible employees, was later made available to talk about the cases. He declined to say why they weren't investigated. "There are policy violations that have occurred here," Sands said. "It's obvious, but I can't comment on who or what."
Sands said officers had subsequently moved to clear up inadequately investigated sex-crimes in El Mirage and elsewhere in the county. He said leads were worked if they existed and cases were closed if there was no further evidence to pursue.

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Where was the state police?

Verbatim. And all I wanted to say was; Were. Just Were. As apposed to; "Where "was" the state [sic] police?"

[ AKA another lame episode of C.O.P.S.] But "WERE~"! Where WERE the 'State Police?'

And furthermore~

I saw no indication that the author were going for some fancy dialectical slant and or even some thinly veiled sarcasm.

Indeed.

I can only to surmise that the above were nothing but some dadburn deliberate attempt to cheat!

*Spit!~*

The State Police was where they was supposed to be.

But it's unlikely that an illegal is going to make much of a stink, or go to a higher authority.

This sounds like shoddy police work, to be sure, but there's not much doubt what the point of the article was, and it weren't to provide the best possible information about an unfortunate series of events. It was to portray Sheriff Arpaio in the worst light possible.

It would be an impossible task to paint Joe Arpaio in a light worse than he deserves. The man (and I use the term loosely) is as corrupt as they come.

Exactly.

He is a pathetic little sadist. He enjoys inflicting suffering -- which he does mostly vicariously -- simply because he enjoys knowing that people are suffering.

Dying will be the best thing that he has ever done.