Feds: Sheriff’s Office ‘deeply rooted’ in racial profiling against Latinos

Feds: Sheriff’s Office ‘deeply rooted’ in racial profiling against Latinos (access required)

By Gary Grado - gary.grado@azcapitoltimes.com

Published: December 15, 2011 at 9:13 am

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has always been fond of saying he’s accountable only to the voters.

But the U.S. Department of Justice took the first steps Dec. 15 toward making Arpaio answer to the federal government after unveiling the results of a civil rights probe that one investigator described as “the most egregious racial profiling in the United States.”

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