Thursday, December 15, 2011

Arizona Sheriff’s Office Unfairly Targeted Latinos, Justice Department Says - NYTimes.com

Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Arizona Sheriff’s Office Unfairly Targeted Latinos, Justice Department Says - NYTimes.com:
by Marc Lacey
We have peeled the onion to its core,” said Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights...
"After an investigation that lasted more than two years, the civil rights division of the Justice Department said the sheriff’s office has “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” that “reaches the highest levels of the agency.” The department interfered with the inquiry, the government said, prompting a lawsuit that eventually led Mr. Arpaio and his deputies to cooperate."

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