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Sheriff’s office in Phoenix struggling with Arpaio legacy

by Jacques Billeaud
| October 23, 2020 11:27 AM

PHOENIX (AP) — Even though Joe Arpaio was ousted as metro Phoenix’s sheriff four years ago, the agency he used to run still struggles in the wake of his controversial 24-year tenure, including overhauling traffic patrols that treat Black and Hispanic drivers differently than whites and a backlog of 1,800 internal affairs cases.

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