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Traffic (2000)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
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Directors: Soderbergh Steven
Actors: Del Toro Benicio,Vargas Jacob,Chavez Andrew,Saucedo Michael,Milian Tomas,Yenque Jose,Rivera Emilio,O’Neill Michael,Douglas Michael,Jones Russell G.,Collins Eric,Holden Beau,Stader Peter,Lew James,Crime,Drama,Thriller,
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio likely to face sanctions for violating undocumented Americans rights?
PHOENIX — A federal judge will decide whether to impose sanctions against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for its acknowledged destruction of police records in a lawsuit that accuses deputies of racially profiling countless Hispanics in immigration sweeps.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow heard arguments Thursday over whether the law enforcement agency should be punished for throwing away and shredding officers’ records of traffic stops and for not handing over all its e-mails about the sweeps.
Since early 2008, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has run 13 immigration and crimes sweeps consisting of deputies and posse volunteers who flood an area of a city – in some cases heavily Latino areas – to seek out traffic violators and arrest other violators.
The lawsuit alleged that officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics who were in vehicles, had no probable cause to pull them over and made the stops so they could inquire about their immigration status.
Arpaio is known for tough jail policies, including housing inmates in tents in the desert, and pushing the bounds for how local law enforcement agencies can confront illegal immigration.
He has repeatedly denied the racial profiling allegations, saying people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.
Peter Kozinets, an attorney for the handful of Latinos who filed the lawsuit, said the traffic-stop records would have helped show that the agency used the stops to racially profile Latinos and that the e-mails would have provided details of how the immigration patrols were planned and carried out. Kozinets asked the judge to draw an unspecified "adverse inference" about the actions of the sheriff’s office, that depositions be reopened for sheriff’s officials who have already given testimony and that the agency pay for the costs associated with reopening depositions and litigating the records dispute.
Timothy Casey, an attorney representing the sheriff’s office, rejected that argument.
"My clients acted in good faith," he said.
Casey said the traffic-stop records were discarded, but that it was an honest error and that the sheriff’s office has handed over some e-mails about the sweeps. An unknown number of other e-mails were deleted, and the agency has been unable to recover those written before October 2009.
After the racial profiling allegations were raised in the lawsuit, Kozinets said the sheriff’s office destroyed "stat sheets." Those are documents that officers completed during the sweeps to record the number of contacts with the public, criminal arrests and civil citations, and provide a short narrative section where officers can briefly summarize arrests or other incidents.
Manuel Joseph Madrid, a supervisor of the sheriff’s human smuggling squad that led the sweeps, said in a deposition that he threw away and shredded stat sheets after he tabulated totals and that he was never told to preserve them.
Through an unintentional mistake, a top official in the sheriff’s office didn’t send the request to keep documents to others within the office, Casey said.
The judge said he would first rule on the sanctions request on the traffic-stop records and would later rule on the request about the e-mails after the sheriff’s office turns over some e-mails that have been recovered.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403699. html
Would someone please tell me, just what is the ethnic ratio of the illegal population in Maricopa County? When looking for a cat you don’t go to the dog kennel.
rlstaehle | Feb 04, 2010
Did you know that there is NEVER a permanent deleted e-mail? A professional computer geek can find them. They did on former President Bushes and Cheney’s computers.
I will say that the ruling will end up in Arpaio’s favor and he will be able to continue to do his job
Burrito Diet | Feb 04, 2010
Nowhere does is say Arpaio is likely to face sanctions, nowhere. Typical lying pro-illegal. But please, tell "your" people not to riot and break more laws when nothing happens to Sheriff Joe and he continues to hold "your" people accountable for the laws you break. Want to break laws freely, move back to Mexico.
Please, read the article fully next time so you don’t look like such a fool. I think your fellow pro-crime people would agree. You just proved the points of soooo many anti-illegals are true it’s got to be embarrassing for you. I would be embarrassed if I were you, that’s for sure.
dipstick | Feb 04, 2010
Every police department in the U.S. needs a Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And there’s no such thing as an undocumented AMERICAN. Perhaps you really meant Illegal alien but had a temporary brain block.
nonof y | Feb 04, 2010
He is going to get his ass kick out one way or the other. and for that lady that said that there is no such thing as undocumented American. Please read more, America is not the name of this country. I know you fellows think that you are the only ones who can be called Americans but unfortunately there are South Americans, Central Americans, and North Americans, so before saying anything please study a little bit more. America is the name for t he whole body of land or The Americas like or not. FYI the name of this country is the United States
Felipe | Feb 05, 2010
