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https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/12/records-show-discrimination-monitor-gets-millions-create-harsh-climate-cops-many-leave/
I'm sure that some will see the 10% attrition rate as a good thing and the idea that MSCO employees being treated "harshly" is simple justice. It isn't. It's all about politics and the hatred of Joe Arpaio. It's about people who are proud of Maricopa County being at the top tier of the US drug and human smuggling trade.
The arrangement, ordered by a judge after a civil rights group filed a lawsuit, has created a “harsh environment with harsh standards,” according to agency sources interviewed by Judicial Watch. Monitors often “set up calls” dispatched as real radio calls for service for deputies to respond to see how they engage with minority contacts, sources say. Since Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone, who advocates protecting illegal immigrants from deportation, took over in 2016 the agency has had a 10% attrition rate, the records obtained by Judicial Watch show. Ironically, one of the Warshaw monitors assigned to keep MCSO in check is a former Miami, Florida police chief embroiled in a federal corruption investigation. The former chief, Raul Martinez, was among several targets investigated by the feds for helping destroy evidence against drug smugglers, sharing bribes and skimming cash and drugs from seizures, according to a local newspaper report. Martinez invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before a grand jury.
I'm sure that some will see the 10% attrition rate as a good thing and the idea that MSCO employees being treated "harshly" is simple justice. It isn't. It's all about politics and the hatred of Joe Arpaio. It's about people who are proud of Maricopa County being at the top tier of the US drug and human smuggling trade.