Arizona Sheriff Forms DUI Chain Gang Dressed in Pink

I love this guy!!!!

Love it as does my brother, who is a prison officer and long time admirer

Oh this is just too awesome! I need to move to Arizona!

By no means do I not take drunk driving lightly but... For first time offenders this is absurd! I have a friend who's character does not include breaking the law. My opinion I think a fine is sufficient and maybe classes or community services. Just remember we have all done it once in our lives a drink or two. By the way just thought I would add if you admit you have had a drink they will not let you drive even if you breath low percent. Not only do they have a DUI on their record there is impound $$ by the mile and daily, Interlock device $$, Prison time $$ yes there is a bill for that too and most of all possible job loss involved. This is devastating and RIDICULOUS and Joe Arpaio's CHAIN GANG is just plain CRUEL and INHUMAINE what a power trip! God is there not a more we can do to the DRUG DEALERS.

Julie, Sorry I have to disagree with your liberal views and side with the Arizona Sheriff. What do you mean by first time? What I mean by that is the commercials and money spent on telling people not to drink and drive for the past 40 years is outrageous. No one who is responsible would be drinking and driving in this day and age. Only selfish people who never take responsibility for their own actions would use the excuse that we have all done it once so lets be lienent on those that get caught doing it for the first time. Julie, All it takes is one time for someone to kill someone else. How can you condone that? We all know that drining and driving is wrong. We all know that drug use is wrong, what's the logical response? DON'T DO IT!

Personally I believe we should kill drug dealers immediately, drunk drivers should be mauled senseless. I don't like light gloves when it comes to criminal offenses and we should just take the gloves off and start killing people. Certain situations like stealing similar to the middle east i believe you should be allowed to cut peoples hands off in the united states, and to top it all off women should be made second class citizens again to be put into line.

You're a fuckhead hhahhHA

Hey, K Dog:
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What a great idea.
But why stop there? Just behead all the extremists. I think we should make you the judge, jury, and executioner too. Then everyone would get along and there'd be no more hate in the world.

And don't forget: nobody is above the rule of K Dog, even K Dog. Nixon, Bush and Chaney wouldn't have agreed, but so what did those guys know about absolute power anyway?
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I am just wondering if you think a mere fine is sufficient for a first time offender even if they killed someone or severely injured someone? All it takes is the first time and people can die and lives will be changed forever. Just so you know, these chain gangs are optional for the prisoners. They choose to be on the chain gang because they are so bored they would rather work than sit in a cell by themselves with nothing to do. Drunk drivers are inhumane and cruel not Joe Arpaio. Do your research and quite defending your friend, think of the utility of all people.

This is a very exeptable punishment even for first time offenders. My girlfriend was hit by a drunk driver and is still having problems a year later!! If the mistake is made to drive drunk, then the punishment should be given out. Don't tell me this aint a good punishment for first time offenders, you can kill someone on your first time driving drunk. As far as the ethics of pink uniforms and a chain gang, I love it. The world should be able to spot them out and know what they did!

You poor dumb bastards. Joe is a business man and he makes money on these ventures. He makes the pink clothes and the green bologna

why all of u swearing for dnt swear my brothers sister and friends thank u

Doesn't this type of punishment go against the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits, among other things, degrading treatment of those in U.S. Custody? DUI is wrong, but so is breaking Federal Law.

A few people are really misguided here. For the person who sympathized with here friends first time nonsense. Truth be told that was the first time getting caught. For those of us who go out party and clubing we still do not take the necessary precautions for a safe ride home. For that reason we take advantage of the graces given to us because we made it home and all is well. Each time that happens we become more and more dissillusioned (if I spelled it right!!). So a good shock to the system for being caught the first time could be the shock to save our lives and other people lives. Let's not hate on the process but appreciate the warning!!!!!! None of us are perfect.

Ok - how did your friend get into jail? Oh broke the law - oh thank God your friend is not injured and they didnt injure someone. If your friend is smart they wont go back. - ever been in Jail?

Think twice about how much you love this cold blooded sherrif. My neighbor was arrested for a DUI (I'm not for this), she was sent to the sherrifs "tent city" where all the inmates sleep inside a tent with NO AC IN 115 degree weather and she DIED 3 days later. She was also DENIED MEDICAL CARE WHEN SHE ASKED FOR IT.

NOT SO SURE WHAT IS SO MUCH TO LOVE ABOUT THIS SHERRIF, HE'S NO BETTER THAN THE INMATES.

Stop breaking the law a**holes and you won't have to worry about whatever follows!

I hope to god Maricopa county and sheriff wackjob don't start mandatory days in jail for copyright infringment, or speeding, because then we'd all be fu**ed spending time in Tent City...who knows, it could be next.

P.S
If any of you self riteous a@@holes out their dare say you have never done either, I hope you choke on your own lying tongue.

Just so everyone knows, DUI laws exist to generate revenue for the State. By "State" I mean not only for the State in which you reside, but also for the federal government, the local government, and lets not forget the law enforcement hypocrites. By "hypocrites" I mean the many, many police officers who arrest people for DUI charges and turn around and they themselves go out for a night on the town. You're finally starting to hear about this. What you won't hear about are the rulers of this nation getting DUIs. You think they honestly don't go out and entertain the foreign dignitaries? Alcohol is and also has been a huge influence on social life. Jesus Christ is pictured at The Last Supper with the disciples with goblets of wine. Think about it. That dude knew he was going to be crucified. You know he was getting his "drink on" that night. Maybe we should focus on the ill teachings of religion. Blame our inherent bad decision making on our creator. I know I'll be kicking "Him" in the nutz if I ever receive the honor of making his acquaintance. The worst part about all the DUI laws is that it's just the first step toward a total Police State. Like it or not, death is the only certainty of life. Dying from an alcohol related "accident" is probably better than suffering the horror of cancer.

What are you talking about....DUI laws are in place to save lives and protect innocent people, like your family, who drive on America's roadways everyday. Cops are no better than anyone else. I know a few police officers who have been arrested for DUI and lost there career over it, as they should have. It has nothing to do with making money for the government. Sure there are fines, but you need to get a better grasp on what your talking about...and you should't talk crap about Jesus. I'd love to be there when you "try" to kick him in the nutz....

Dude wake the hell up. We live in a capitalist nation. Nothing is done unless it involves the generation of revenue. Hence the creation of b/s laws like DUI. Like you said, people's careers are lost, their entire lives ruined. That's a small trade off for our beloved government. They maintain the image of caring for us and looking after us. If you doubt my theory on revenue,can you explain to me why tobacco is still legal? If the government is really trying to save lives, and they know for a fact tobacco use causes cancer, hence death, why is it not illegal? Oh right, because they tax the hell out of it and make billions of dollars annually. Why would they want to give up the free money? And as for "Jesus", he's a figment of your imagination, most likely because you are afraid of death and the unknown.

Why isn't THIS guy (the "sheriff") arrested for murder?? I didnt hear anything about this anywhere? What gives with this jerk?

More than 1,500,000 people have been murdered by drunken drivers since 1945. More than all the wars we have been involved with since that date. This is more people murdered than were murdered by firearms. Lets get serious. Stop attacking gun owners and go after drunks who drive. Murder is murder, whether committed with a gun or with a car and a drunk behind the wheel. Intent is intent (careless disregard for human life constitutes intent). In many countries, drunken drivers who kill people are executed before the sun sets that same day. Lets get serious.

I think that the USA has killed far more that one-and-a-half million people in wars since 1945. Four million in the American War of Agression in Vietnam if I'm not mistaken (and I am not).

You poor uneducated Jesus-loving Yanks really have no idea that you have become the laughing stock of the Western World. You are not even a real "first world" country, especially not when compared to Western Europe, Canada and Australia. I think of the US as the new "second world."

Ludicrous medieval punishments devised by the likes of this moron sheriff who I will not bother naming prove my point.

Thank God I will never be under the power of people like this sheriff who is probably as uneducated as those of you who actually support him.

I met some poor mongrel Yank who had been raped up the arse for eight months for three DUIs. While he did deserve a kick up the arse, I do not think he deserved numerous dicks up his arse. No doubt, many of you who have posted on this forum will say that he did. I would say to you that, if you were earning more than five dollars an hour, you may be able to afford an education and realise just how idiotic you sound now.

Oh, and drugs are great. Ecstacy and marijuana are way better than alcohol and cigarettes (which account for 99% of all drug deaths).

When the US is finally toppled as the world superpower by China in the next couple of decades then I hope that the world needn't suffer your ignorant and murderous foreign policy perpentrated by the fellow idiots that you elect.

Jesus, by the way, was a criminal executed for insurrection in the temple (news flash: he wasn't God, just another messianic lunatic). No doubt you all approve of this method of social control.

I don't dislike all Yanks BTW. I have some American friends; however, they are all anti-americans like myself.

This ignorant person should move as soon as possible. Maybe he should move to North Korea. China? Haiti? Just get him out of the country. This ignorant boob didn't even realize we were talking about murder by bottle. Drunks on the road deserve to be de-humanized by their fellow inmate felons. Whether a broom-stick or whatever. Keep the drunks off the road by whatever means possible and leave our guns alone.

If they were more Law Enforcement like this Sheriff we would have less crime.

Oh really? how do you know that humiliating criminals will make them commit less crimes? Do you honestly believe that degrading people will make them better or more obedient? Lets say we decided to dress you in a pink shirt with striped black and white pants... do you think this would change you in any way besides making you angry at whoever made you wear it...would this ridiculous outfit help you word your sentence any better? If you really believe that maybe you would realize that "If there were more people in Law enforcement like this sheriff we would have less crime," sounds much more proper than "If [they] were more Law Enforcement like this Sheriff we would have less crime." Its funny that from just from reading your sentence you sound to me like a redneck from the southern parts of the US..

These guys new damn well what they were getting into once the opened that car door, they just decided to proceed. Yeah I agree maybe they were "first time offenders," ON RECORD, guarenteed that was not their first time Driving While Intoxicated. Is it "cruel" to list sex offenders? Hell no! So is it "cruel" to inform people that these men may have killed an innocent child, parent or sibling? ... Hell no! My best friends were struck by a drunk driver this past september, one of them was killed, and it haunts me every night knowing that the man who struck them is still out driving around.

This guy is in so Many violations of the constitution and many other state and municipal laws.

It appears arizona has a Nazi sheriff with corrupt officials as his superiors negligently allow him to go unsupervised.

he uses a tent like a nazi camp... aka alot of similarities...

I think he has a background like a nazi guard...

He sure is against democracy and the constitution.

It goes way beyond breaking the law and abusing it and using it to hide brutality and intrusions and racial profiling.
not to mention housing standards against the law.
and humanity.

time to vote out more right winged radical rethuglikkkans and all their agendas and ideals.

Dwi is a serious problem i think that they should have to help with the burial of the victims of dwi. they are all jerks for drinking and driving
what if that was your husband, brother , son , mother , sister ,wife? would have the same reaction? think twice before you drink and quit being a cheap ass and get a cab