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Arpaio Requiring His Deputies To Carry AR-15s At All Times, Fight Crime Even When They're Off Duty
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona announced Thursday he will start requiring his deputies to carry AR-15s at all times and expects them to use the weapons to fight crime even when they're off duty.
While this decision may seem controversial to some in the public and among other law enforcement agencies, I have extreme confidence in the training and professionalism of the men and women deputies in the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office, Arpaio said, according to AZ Family.
While announcing the new requirement, Arpaio noted that two of his deputies "died under violent circumstances" last year and another "was shot several times but survived."
"I want all my deputies to be armed with the greatest firepower available 24 hours a day," Arpaio said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/joe-arpaio-ar-15s_n_3731487.html
Maricopa County PLEASE STOP voting for this guy!
tanyev
(42,552 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)AZ Mike
(468 posts)I remember visiting Mexico as a kid - the city of Agua Prieta, which is right across the border from the very SE corner of AZ. It was extremely common to see the federales walking along, sometimes in formation, with big rifles slung over their shoulders. Perhaps they were AR-15s or AK-47s; I really don't know - I was a kid. Good to see that immigrants are unwelcome, but the police state is.
Yay, AZ!
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msongs
(67,405 posts)el scorcho
(58 posts)2 things happened this week in Arpaioland:
1. Arpaio scored a bunch of new AR-15's for his department and made a media event of handing them out to various officers. The man is a media whore like none other.
2. Arpaio required all deputies to be armed even when off duty. This does not mean they carry AR-15's off duty. They would be carrying sidearms (which most of them do now anyway).
I'm no fan of Sheriff Joe but the HuffPo article is just incorrect.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)+1000
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to require off duty cops to carry. But AR15s? That is plain nuts.
tumtum
(438 posts)those rifles are assigned to them, they take them home with them, but they won't be carrying them off duty when they go grocery shopping, take their kids to the park, go to a movie, etc.
They'll probably carry their sidearm off duty, as do most cops in the nation.
Huffpo is full of shit with that article.
I'm friends with several Maricopa County Deputies, this is what they've told me.