Driving While Brown

Driving While Brown
Author: Terry Greene Sterling
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520967356

"A smart, well-documented book about a group of people determined to hold the powerful to account."—2021 NPR "Books We Love" "Journalism at its best."—2022 Southwest Books of the Year: Top Pick A 2021 Immigration Book of the Year, Immigration Prof Blog Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award Finalist 2021 How Latino activists brought down powerful Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. Journalists Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block spent years chronicling the human consequences of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s relentless immigration enforcement in Maricopa County, Arizona. In Driving While Brown, they tell the tale of two opposing movements that redefined Arizona’s political landscape—the restrictionist cause advanced by Arpaio and the Latino-led resistance that rose up against it. The story follows Arpaio, his supporters, and his adversaries, including Lydia Guzman, who gathered evidence for a racial-profiling lawsuit that took surprising turns. Guzman joined a coalition determined to stop Arpaio, reform unconstitutional policing, and fight for Latino civil rights. Driving While Brown details Arpaio's transformation—from "America’s Toughest Sheriff," who forced inmates to wear pink underwear, into the nation’s most feared immigration enforcer who ended up receiving President Donald Trump’s first pardon. The authors immerse readers in the lives of people on both sides of the battle and uncover the deep roots of the Trump administration's immigration policies. The result of tireless investigative reporting, this powerful book provides critical insights into effective resistance to institutionalized racism and the community organizing that helped transform Arizona from a conservative stronghold into a battleground state.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Author: David Thomas Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-04-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948035958

The life story of Joe Arpaio

Joe's Law

Joe's Law
Author: Joe ARPAIO
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008-05-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814401996

Outspoken, no-nonsense, and eminently fascinating, Joseph M. Arpaio captured the public's imagination from his first day as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1992. He has become an icon, not only in his own state, but all over the world. For 15 years, he has maintained an unprecedented 80% approval rating. Famous for his “get smart and get tough” approach to jails, “Sheriff Joe,” as he is universally known, conceived The Tent City Jail where he houses his inmates in surplus army tents left over from the Korean War. Known as the “Alcatraz of Arizona,” the jail features chain gangs and stringent discipline. By eliminating all comforts for his inmates, he has managed to shave $500,000 annually from the cost of keeping prisoners. But he also offers a wide range of educational and therapeutic courses for inmates. To his ardent followers, he is a hero for both his toughness on crime and his sense of humanity. While his opponents decry him for his iron-fisted approach, no one can deny that Sheriff Joe is one of the country's most respected elected officials. Joe's Law is an uncensored look by “America's Toughest Sheriff” at some of the most important and difficult issues facing America today. As the first law enforcement official in the country to arrest illegal immigrants, Arpaio tackles illegal immigration head on—how it intertwines with drug trafficking, taxes, and crime, and how it impacts healthcare and education as well. Arpaio offers innovative and fair ways to solve this dilemma and many others, not only in his own state but throughout the country. Compelling and courageous, this is a candid take on some of America's most pressing social problems, and one man's revolutionary vision for eliminating them.

Hard Time

Hard Time
Author: Shaun Attwood
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616082690

Recounts the time the author, a former British stock broker in Phoenix, spent in the Maricopa Jail, run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

America's Toughest Sheriff

America's Toughest Sheriff
Author: Joe Arpaio
Publisher: Summit Group
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781565302020

Overcrowded jails and shrinking budgets equal early release for prisoners in most communities. Not so in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio houses inmates in surplus army tents dating from the Korean War. And while summer temperatures in the desert can reach 120 degrees, Sheriff Joe reasons that if the tents were good enough for the troops of Desert Storm, they are good enough for convicted criminals. America's Toughest Sheriff is an unfiltered account of Sheriff Joe's "get smart and get tough" approach to jail. He believes that criminals should never live better in jail than they do on the outside. Called the "Alcatraz of Arizona," the Tent City Jail features discipline, hard work, and a total absence of frills. By eliminating coffee and feeding convicts sandwiches at lunch, Arpaio has shaved $500,000 annually from the cost of keeping prisoners. And that's only the beginning of the changes he has initiated on his way to achieving an 85 percent approval rating from his constituents. Citizens of the Phoenix area rave about Sheriff Joe's common-sense approach to crime, and about his creative ways to save taxpayers money. More than 2,500 residents have volunteered for his posses, performing duties from rescuing lost hikers to patrolling the malls during the holidays. His innovative leadership in law enforcement is rooted in more than 30 years' experience as a federal drug enforcement agent when he fought the drug trade in Turkey and Central America.

The Way of the Shadow Wolves

The Way of the Shadow Wolves
Author: Steven Seagal
Publisher: 5th Palace Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-10
Genre: Arizona
ISBN: 9780999497500

Action adventure about a tribal police officer in Arizona who stumbles onto a crime involving international covert operations.

When the Stars Begin to Fall

When the Stars Begin to Fall
Author: Theodore R. Johnson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802157874

A “persuasive . . . heartfelt and vividly written” call to counter systemic racism and build national solidarity in America (Publishers Weekly). The American Promise enshrined in our Constitution states that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Theodore Johnson argues, the promise that made America unique on Earth will have died. In When the Stars Begin to Fall, Johnson presents a compelling blueprint for the kind of national solidarity necessary to mitigate racism. Weaving together history, personal memories, and his family’s multi-generational experiences with racism, Johnson posits that solutions can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America. Understanding that racism is a structural crime of the state, he argues that overcoming it requires us to recognize that a color-conscious society—not a color-blind one—is the true fulfillment of the American Promise. Fueled by Johnson’s ultimate faith in the American project, grounded in his family’s longstanding optimism and his own military service, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the process of overcoming what has long seemed intractable.

When Should Law Forgive?

When Should Law Forgive?
Author: Martha Minow
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0393651827

“Martha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In an age increasingly defined by accusation and resentment, Martha Minow makes an eloquent, deeply-researched argument in favor of strengthening the role of forgiveness in the administration of law. Through three case studies, Minow addresses such foundational issues as: Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? The result is as lucid as it is compassionate: A compelling study of the mechanisms of justice by one of this country’s foremost legal experts.

American Sheriff

American Sheriff
Author: Mark Lamb
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734805390

Are you concerned about the direction America is headed? Who is out there in the trenches fighting for our freedom and holding fast to the Constitution on our behalf? Our County Sheriffs are the last bastion of freedom against government overreach on a local and federal level. In American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World you will learn about one of those freedom fighters, Sheriff Mark Lamb, and how living overseas as a youth and ability to "Fear Not; Do Right" have shaped his ideals and convictions to love America. As the descendant of Pilgrims, he has been forged by hardships, wins, and losses to rise above the challenges and lead from the front, in Law Enforcement and in Politics. Read about the core values that has shaped Sheriff Lamb into the person he is and is becoming including: *Faith *Family *Love of Country *Courage *Perseverance Sheriff Lamb uses a unique business and marketing approach to politics, and empowering leadership style. You will be inspired by his patriotism, failures, wins, and hard work as you follow along with the stories of one of the most well known American Sheriffs of our times.

Accidental Felons

Accidental Felons
Author: Daniel Horne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Corrections
ISBN: 9780982063408