Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona's most populous county, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman's headline-grabbing tactics inspired.
Officials in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, agreed last week to pay US$3.1 million to cover the county's portion of a settlement with a restaurant owner who alleged Arpaio defamed him and violated his rights when raiding his businesses.
"They just didn't care as long as they got the entertainment value," Manning said. "And it just went on and on." Arpaio's crushing defeat in 2016 to a Democratic challenger came after he was found in civil contempt of court for ignoring a judge's order in the profiling case, leading to a more serious 2017 criminal contempt conviction that was later pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The legal spending for Arpaio's office, which aside from the racial profiling case averaged about $4.2 million a year, wasn't nearly as high as some police agencies. Litigation expenses for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, for instance, totaled $480 million for the eight-year period ending in late June 2020, averaging about $60 million per year, according to records.
The judge in that case ordered an overhaul of the sheriff's office traffic enforcement operations, including new training for deputies, analyzing traffic-stop data, establishing a warning system to identify officers with problematic behavior, equipping deputies with body cameras and other changes.
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