"You asked us to check into the sweep anti-crime made right before those hits went down Wednesday?
How durable or law-abiding, ask human-rights campaigners, will a democracy be whose first act is to sweep such crimes under the carpet?In this section The Cyprus timebomb A week on the wild side Confronting the past Dramatically unchanged The perils of electronic shopping Reprints Related items Of memory and forgivenessOct 30th 1997Neither side has won this debate.
If the Commander for whatever reason sweeps the crime under the rug, this erodes the trust within in the unit which is vital to mission readiness and cohesion.
The debate continued to boil here on Friday, when protesters marched on Mr. Arpaio's downtown office, as they regularly do, around the time his crime sweep got under way 20 miles away in Surprise.
Mr. Arpaio has denounced federal officials for the changes and conducted a crime sweep Friday in Surprise, a Phoenix suburb, as a retort, saying he could pursue illegal immigrants under state laws that bar activity like human smuggling.
Glenny writes to him, urging him to tell his story: cue 10 visits to the jail and a dynastic 50-year Shakespearean sweep of organised crime that manages to be both intimate and alarming.
The sheriff claimed Wednesday that this latest crime sweep was scheduled weeks ago and was unrelated to Arizona's new anti-immigration law.
Feds Arrest 8,000 in Massive Crime Sweep Federal authorities have announced the arrests of more than 8,000 violent fugitives in the past six weeks, part of an operation aimed at stopping persistent crime in 12 east coast cities.
They accused sheriff's deputies of unlawfully singling out Latinos for immigration checks during several crime sweeps.
It noted many examples of arbitrary and unlawful immigration crackdowns, of crime sweeps initiated not because of crime, but because the office had received reports of people with "dark skin" or speaking Spanish.
