http://www.sheriffapb.org/

Hit "Search for Warrant" without entering any info and it will bring up all 20,000+ outstanding warrants :eek:

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Creepy neighbor? Check for a warrant at msco.com

Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 18, 2006 08:30 PM

Ever wonder if your shady neighbor is on the lam? Maybe you're curious about how many people in your zip code have warrants for their arrest.

A Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Web site is giving citizens a chance to be Techno-Cops.

On Wednesday, the agency unveiled an online database containing information on 30,000 people with warrants in Maricopa County. New warrants will be added daily.
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There are no pictures, but users can run a search by name, address, zip code, criminal offense, gender or race, among others. The hope is citizens will use the database to pinpoint criminals and give authorities information leading to an arrest, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.

"Some people may say this is a new kind of community policing," Arpaio said. "Some might say, 'You want people to spy on their neighbors.' I don't like that word: spying. (I'm asking them to) keep their eyes and ears open . . .

"It's all geared to protecting the public."

The fugitives featured on Techno-Cops are wanted for various crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, DUI and drug offenses. The majority of all warrants, about 40 percent, were issued for failure to appear in court, Arpaio said.

There are 70,000 open warrants in Maricopa County. Arpaio said legal issues prohibit the Sheriff's Office from posting all of the warrants, many issued by grand juries, on the Web site. The agency is working with Maricopa County Superior Court officials to lift the restrictions.

In the meantime, Arpaio said he anticipates the public will use Techno-Cops, at least if the traffic on his Web site is an indication. He claimed www.mcso.org receives about 800,000 "hits" a day.

All fugitive information submitted to the Sheriff's Office, whether by Web or phone, would be verified.

Arpaio said anyone who knowingly submits false information is "going to jail." But what about those who report anonymously?

"I'm not giving up a program just because some jerk wants to play a joke on the sheriff," he added.

I just did your name rick and it came back about something about a full moon a goat and a roster? Care to explain?

Mixed on weather I like the idea or not.

This Sheriff is all about publicity, he's probably the only Sheriff that people outside of his territory know his name... One of his brilliant plans involved road blocks coming into the county so they could check everyone for drugs.:rolleyes: The courts didn't like that too much and rightfully so. Then he set up a video Internet link in his holding tank... You could see people getting booked, frisked, etc... Courts didn't like that either since they were showing people who had yet to be convicted of anything. This guy has cost the county more in legal settlements than he's worth.

Rockranger, don't you like how Rick just dodged that question :) J/K

I thought that was all behind me... I'm not into roosters anymore. Now it's emus :D

One of his brilliant plans involved road blocks coming into the county so they could check everyone for drugs.:rolleyes: The courts didn't like that too much and rightfully so. Then he set up a video Internet link in his holding tank... You could see people getting booked, frisked, etc...

On I-16, about an hour away from Georgia Southern University, there's a county called Dublin. I'm pretty sure this applies in all states, but I know in GA is illegal to make roadblock checkpoints on the interstate. Well, the sheriff in the town got this bright idea: He would make it LOOK like a roadblock was ahead just over a hill, right before an exit ramp. Most small time drug dealers/young kids don't know that you can't have roadblocks on the interstate. So when they take a left or right off the exit ramp, they will be greeted by a road block.

The video feed is just stupid. He just furthered the point even more that he thinks you're guilty until proven innocent..

Also Rick, did you know that Emus can actually be sexually attracted to humans? Look it up.. :D

Also Rick, did you know that Emus can actually be sexually attracted to humans? Look it up.. :D

That is why he moved out of the city. More land to house his Emu harem ;) .

Moo moo I love you, I know you're a cow, but anything will do. I said woo wee can't ya see I just wanna make love to you!!

The story behind those lyrics is pretty damn funny. Some guy raped a cow at the zoo in Chicago. A radio DJ came up with the song :D

Ha. That doesn't beat the MARRIED BOEING worker in Enumclaw, WA. He liked spending sweet time on a farm with male horses. He ended up getting killed. Something broke his pelvis :fart: A local radio show host made a shirt commemorating the event. See attached :p

This sheriff guy sounds pretty cool. I like his ideas, though the law doesn't. I bet lots of people are on there searching and didn't even know they had warrants. I like how you can report a fugitive. Oh the possible pranks!

a bar in apache junction, az has a pair of JOES pink jail underware under glass that one of their devoted patrons made off with.

The pink underwear was supposed to deter people from stealing jail issued underwear. Instead they became super popular and Joe's posse started selling them:rolleyes:

Sherrif Joe >***
He does have the lowest repeat offender rates around.
While I'm not found of the whole video link thing, look at COPS TV Show. They do the exact same thing. Also arrests are published in most papers.

Where did you hear he had the lowest repeat offender rate? He stated that before and the local media proved that many similar sized counties had lower rates.

my son didnt repeat after his stay in tent city and the diet of green bologna. not to mention the waiting list for joes chain gang.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Recidivism in the jails was reduced during his time as sheriff.

Truth: Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent $10,000 in taxpayer money to have Arizona State University study recidivism in the jail system. The result showed that there was no change in the rate at which inmates returned to jail. Sheriff Joe Arpaio immediately declared that ASU was wrong.
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After a bit of digging around I found that the recidivism rate for Maricopa County jails is at 60% which is right in line with the national average of 60%-70%. It's not easy to find good data on this subject. The county likes to tout it's drig rehab program as being very successful, but the truth of the matter is VERY few inmates in for drug possesion or use are offered any type of rehab at all. This has been discussed many times in local media outlets.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1998-09-24/feature_6.html

Arpaio was confident that his policies--rotten food, no cigarettes, pink underwear for men--were having a measurable effect on inmate recidivism. So last year he hired ASU professors John Hepburn and Marie Griffin to study the return rate.

In March, Hepburn and Griffin released their report. Arpaio's stringent programs had no measurable effect on inmate recidivism. Inmates were coming back with the same frequency as prisoners who had served in years before Arpaio's tenure.

"We concluded that the additional hardships don't really register any additional deterrent effect," Hepburn says. "For most prisoners, their concerns are the same we find elsewhere, that is for privacy and simply being incarcerated."

After a brief splash of publicity, however, the county has done nothing with the Hepburn-Griffin report.

That's too bad, because the document also provided a detailed look at the population of sentenced inmates in the jail, who make up about 30 percent of all prisoners. About two thirds of them are serving sentences for misdemeanors.

The Hepburn-Griffin study reported startling data about how many prisoners return to jail time and again. "More than 85 percent of these offenders had at least one arrest prior to the arrest that resulted in their sentence to the Maricopa County jail," the professors wrote.

"A lot of people expect to be back," Hepburn tells New Times. "They're driving on a suspended license. They choose to do that rather than get another job or take a bus. Or they haven't paid a fee and they say they won't be able to pay it when they get out."

So the jails stay crowded, filled with people caught in a pathetic cycle of fines and misdemeanors.

ASU professor Dennis Palumbo questions whether it's worth a billion dollars to spread that net wider.

"Arizona is the sixth highest in the nation in its incarceration rate. . . . It's the rate that's the problem," he says. At more than 800 people incarcerated per 100,000, Arizona's incarceration rate is almost twice the national average and more than twice the rate of South Africa and Russia.

I'll be...
I thought he did.
Well at least they don't enjoy it and he treats them like s**t. That's another important part. I've sat at the County Public Safety Meetings and actually heard our Sheriff discuss prisoner complaints regarding the food being cold. :roll:

my son learned a lesson but not because of maricopa county, sorry should have been clearer.

I'll be...
I thought he did.
Well at least they don't enjoy it and he treats them like s**t.

Actually the prisoners pretty much run tent city and to them it's a home away from home... I have two friends that work there one in the kitchen and one in their psych ward. Neither of them have any respect for Joe and they can't believe he keeps getting re-elected. Last time around the state Republican party wouldn't even endorse him. They endorsed another candidate.

You know what Joe did? He had his goon squad "investigate" the opponent, and charged the man with raping his step-mother back in the early '70s. First of all it was illegal because he was investigating an opponent. If he believed the allegations were true he was supposed to hand the case to the State Police and let them conduct the investigation. Second the alleged crime took place in the early '70s and the statute of limitations had long since expired. What Joe did was smear this mans name so badly that he had no chance of defeating Joe even though the opponent was supported by the states Republican party.

Joe has a long history of screwing with opponents. Many of the cases were settled out of court with the County having to pay up to those who accused Joe of spying.

Joe is an egotistical bastard plain and simple. He is probably the ONLY Sheriff in the country who has body guards. What kind of Sheriff can't protect themself?

Joe showed up at my wifes school for career day. My wife met Joe in the office along with the Principal and other staff. Joe was handed a coffee mug with his name on it and it was filled with Hershey Kisses. In front of the people who just gave him the gift he said to his body guard "I don't like these things, here you take it". Just a bit rude... At this point my wife didn't know who the guy he had handed the candy too was. As my wife led Joe to the auditorium for his presentation he asked "by the way what am I supposed to be doing here". She said "this is career day and you're supposed to talk about what you do for a living to the kids". He replied "Kids. I don't like kids. I don't even talk to my own grandchildren". Char then asked if the man who was with him was also going to be speaking at the presentation. Joe said "no he's here in case I get shot". :rolleyes:

Odd. I have an Uncle out there who's into the whole commercials and televsion studio stuff and he really likes him? Odd

He has a wide support base mainly because the only media outlet that reports anything, but peachy, rosy, chamber of commerce stories is the Phoenix New Times. If you don't read the New Times or know people who work for him you haven't heard much of what's wrong with Joe's regime.