The taxpayer costs for the racial profiling verdict arising from then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns are expected to reach $314 million by mid-summer 2025. Officials on Monday approved $41 million in compliance funding for the case -- the most expensive for Maricopa County taxpayers since the lawsuit was filed in 2007.
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio poses at his private office in Fountain Hills, Ariz. On Monday, May 20, 2024, county officials said legal and compliance costs in a racial profiling lawsuit over Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns are expected to reach $314 million by mid-summer of 2025.
The money being spent on turning around the sheriff’s office looms large in law enforcement and political circles in Arizona.FIFA wants global standard for punishing racist abuse and urges players to use crossed hands signby critics who said the city of Phoenix should resist entering a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, which is investigating the city’s police department.
“For the first time that I’ve been involved, the sheriff finally said, ‘We own this, we have to fix this,’” said Piña.The overwhelming majority of the spending goes toward hiring employees to help meet the court’s requirements and a separate staff working on the court’s behalf to monitor the sheriff office’s compliance with both overhauls.
Arpaio, who turns 92 next month and is running for mayor of the affluent suburb where he has long resided, said he has no regrets about launching immigration crackdowns. In an interview Wednesday, Arpaio dodged a question about whether compliance costs from the profiling case would exceed any savings that the public might have gained from such enforcement efforts. Instead, he focused on the influx of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years.
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