It's the mismangement stupid, part II

Yesterday I wrote about the mismanagement of Andrew "the douche" Thomas' office. Today will switch to Joe "dime bag" Arpaio. The Arizona Republic has these two articles (one and two) about cut backs in the Sheriffs office. Yesterday, Joe closed the county police training academy to outside police forces to save money. In typical fashion, he had no regard for anything except his own gigantic ego. He left police forces scrambling to find training for their new officers since closed up shop without notice.


Mostly small cities were affected by the charge and luckily Phoenix stepped up and offered spots in their police academy to the affected cities.

The second article is about Joe trying to get his drunken sailor spending under control. He is making cuts all over the department, I will get to those in a second. Interestingly, Sheriff Joe had his stupid tank at the parade in Tempe last week. In typical Dime bag fashion PR always trumps actual law enforcement. Here is what he is planning to cut:

1. They will not hire 25 new deputies.


2. They will not hire 200 new detention officers.


3. They shortened jail visitation hours (which makes it difficult to inmates to exercise their constitutional to have access to council).


4. They have already cut back on transporting prisoners to court.

To me this is just stunning... Maricopa County's population will not stop growing over the next year, but the county jails and law enforcement will. I know a lot of people think Sheriff Joe is keen because he so mean to prisoners and a self-promoting media whore (BTW -- The shortest distance between any two points is wherever Sheriff Joe is standing and the nearest news crew camera :)), but I think I would just prefer a properly managed Sheriffs office. Once again, this is not partisan to me (at least not entirely). Law enforcement is too important to be left amateurs and political hacks. Maricopa County, in my opinion, is pretty well run and deserves two really boring competent law enforcement official to take their jobs and disappear into the background to do their work.