That sheriff is...well, going off the deep end:
# Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas filed a bizarre federal lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy among the county’s judges and supervisors against Arpaio, Thomas, and Arpaio’s department.
# Thomas indicted two Maricopa County supervisors on corruption charges.
# Then it gets weird. Yesterday, Arpaio and Thomas criminally charged Judge Donahoe (the judge who held Arpaio’s document-swiping deputy in contempt) on bribery charges. Except there was apparently never any actual bribe. They didn’t like how Donahoe had ruled on some motions related to Arpaio’s investigation into the construction of a new tower for the county courthouse. Apparently, Donahoe’s “bribe” was merely his employment with the court system that benefits from the tower. Oh, and he’s also retiring soon.
# Bonus: The indictment documents Thomas released to the press apparently “mistakenly” included Donahoe’s home address.
And the 50 worst police brutality videos that surfaced in 2009. Some have been seen here, but most haven't.

Either way, it's a lot of scum in one blog post:
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=1489

Finally, a forum thread from a police officer forum, where cops discuss the benefits of beating the crap out of suspects they've caught.
Ya know, I believe that things have changed for the better and I do understand that some of the things we did so many years ago would get you fired, sued, and probably put in jail for but damned, it did work pretty well most of the time. Whenever my platoon went on third shift housebreaking dropped to almost nothing. It was just a given that if we caught you in a building, and we usually did, you would get an *****-whipping. Nothing really bad and never break anything, but you didn't want to get caught again!
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