Response times, arrest rates, investigations and other routine police work throughout Maricopa County have suffered over the past two years as Sheriff Joe Arpaio turned his already short-handed and cash-strapped department into an immigration enforcement agency.
Joe is spending all his time/resources tracking down Mexicans. He ignores everything else. Violent crime rate is up. All given. So the logical causation, If A, then B is ... people know that Joe isn't paying attention so this is a good time to start a bar fight? Wack granny for her estate? Still don't see the causation trail even if I except the validity of the data. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
