You're doing a fine job of demonstrating that you don't belong in this century, or even the last one.
Your opinion about Arpaio or anything else is actually of absolutely no value, and of no interest to anyone who knows anything.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-11/news/was-juan-mendoza-farias-beaten-to-death-by-sheriff-joe-arpaio-s-guards/On December 2, 2007, a 40-year-old man named Juan Mendoza Farias was arrested and booked into the Maricopa County Jail. Like a lot of people who come through Sheriff Joe Arpaio's doors, Farias' offense was DUI-related, a probation violation.
... After three days, he was clearly going through alcohol withdrawal. According to written accounts from detention officers, Farias became hostile and started resisting their orders.
When that happened, officers cuffed Farias and put his legs in shackles and moved him to an isolated "safe" or "soft" cell, designed to prevent him from hurting himself or others. The officers fired six rounds of crowd-control "pepper balls" at Farias and shocked him with at least two Tasers.
... Farias was fighting for his life. The county medical examiner documented "blunt force injuries" on his face, torso, and limbs. His neck muscles hemorrhaged internally from the strain, and a gash was notched out of his nose — either from being struck or from being pressed into something.
As the guards held him face down, one noticed that Farias was no longer moving or breathing. The guards rolled him over and pulled the spit mask off his mouth. It was filled with blood. So were his nostrils.
Sounds a little like the behaviour of the US military in Iraq, doesn't it?
I suggest you read that entire article, not just the little I am allowed to excerpt here.
Not much I can say if you think that killing someone for a probation violation is appropriate punishment, though.
As far as cost-effectiveness ...
http://hispanic.cc/joe_arpaio_has_cost_taxpayers_$41_million.htm
Vermin, filth, medical care suggestive of POW camps, chronic mismanagement, the wanton destruction of records, and a steady parade of corpses in Maricopa County jails have cost taxpayers an astonishing — and until now, undisclosed — 41.4 million dollars.
Joe Arpaio has perpetuated his reign as "America's toughest sheriff" with an open checkbook.
Your open checkbook.
The Sheriff has captured the imagination of voters with his almost cartoonish contempt for the prisoners in his charge. He's subjected inmates to pink underwear, chain gangs, and rancid bologna sandwiches, and he's garnered big wins at the polls. But Arpaio's jail policies have generated a tsunami of lawsuits from prisoners and their families.
There simply isn't another jail system in America with this history of taxpayer-financed litigation.
Again, you'll want to read the entire article. A lawyer who contracted MRSA from the filthy conditions at the prison. A pregnant woman -- convicted of no crime, awaiting trial -- beaten by other inmates, miscarrying, getting no medical attention. A diabetic woman not given insulin and denied medical attention as her cellmates desparately tried to get help for her, dying after finally taken to hospital in a coma. A developmentally disabled man arrested for trespassing -- TRESPASSING -- suffocated into brain death by restraints. Suicides by unstable people placed in unsafe premises.
In 2003, the county hired Jon Bosch, a corrections consultant with 20 years of experience, to audit Arpaio's jails.
"The current correctional healthcare program at Maricopa County is not in compliance with the basic healthcare rights provided to inmates under the U.S. Constitution," Bosch concluded. He found that Arpaio's jails violate the Eighth Amendment prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment."
But hey. Fuck their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. They're ... uh ... alleged trespassers. They deserve to die.
Vomit.