Am I missing something?

[SoCalCoug]

Somebody brought up Sheriff Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona, a few days ago.

I first learned about him several years ago, in connection with the death of Scott Norberg. I was horrified at what the deputies were able to get away with in killing him. And even more horrified to learn that similar deaths and serious injuries have happened again.

There is a left-leaning newspaper in Phoenix with a writer or two who have been following Arpaio for several years. They have documented many abuses and acts which, I believe, demonstrate Arpaio to be corrupt. Mexico-type corrupt, to a level that I don't want to believe can happen in the US today.

I have had boardmail exchanges (as well as public exchanges on the board) with a number of people who live there, and who vote for him.

The reasons amount to, they love how he's tough on crime and criminals.

I have a hard time believing that anyone who's informed, at least of the accusations against him, would continue to vote for him. But they do.

And it seems that they just don't care about his "personal" issues - they like the results.

So now that brings me to my ultimate question - why should I even care, if they don't?

If he was in Orange County, where I live, I'd be furious.

But they dismiss the 130+ articles written about Arpaio's abuses as left-wing agenda-driven propaganda. Or, even worse, accept that he's got those issues, but they feel safer with him there. Plus, he's Republican.

Are they really that apathetic in Phoenix, or am I tilting at windmills here?