A little disappointed in the sheriff
I have been following the Joe Arpaio/Maracopa County Jail story for several years, and have been a big fan of his common-sense approach to law enforcement. The tales of the drug war, border enforcement, and fighting the bureaucracy were extremely entertaining. I was frustrated that he never got to put Paris Hilton in one of his chain-gangs, but my guess is she will stay out of southern Arizona until Joe retires.

And then we got to chapter eleven...politics. The sheriff and Senator John McCain do not like each other, I get it. But was the timing of the book just coincidentally in the final stretch of the presidential campaign? Maybe, but the suspicion casts a negative shadow on an otherwise fascinating story. Joe, I wish you'd left politics out of your book just as you've tried to keep them out of your job.

Joe's Law
Joe's Law: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else That Threatens America

I truly enjoyed this book. Of course, Joe is one of my idols. With him we can get this county back in order, He is the most courageous person that has been in this office as Sheriff since I have been in Phoenix (Maricopa County) Arizona. (1979). Keep up the good work.

This book is well written.

Joe's Law
A must read for all law enforcement agencies and politicians, especially democrats!! We need more Sheriff Joes.

WONDERFUL to listen to, uplifting
Joe Arpaio is better than I had heard. He runs a high school with tough standards. Has prisoners take care of animals to learn to respect living things. Has women prisoners do work. Took away nearly all TV entertainment.

He tells how he has singlehandedly found and then arrested big international drug dealers.

He has a large posse of volunteers who pay for all their own equipment including vans, trucks, and even a helicopter! How they used the Phoenix volunteer's helicopter to help in New Orleans when Lousiana sheriffs were afraid.

How he uses the posse to find vehicles carrying illegal immigrants. How he uses the posse to notify parents of drug use in certain high schools.

An inspiring book to listen to. Best I ever listened to.

Terrible approach to one of America's most important isues
Joe Arpaio's approach to immigration enforcement is to "get tough" and to shame anyone who thinks differently. I'm not satisfied with getting tough on immigration, it's time to "get smart" on immigration. Arpaio's gestapo tactics rely on fear and violence, and have the net effect of pushing people elsewhere -- forcing more migration. Arpaio lacks any true understanding of the "push" and "pull" factors that are the engine of Latin American immigration patterns into the US -- the forces that push them from their home communities (lack of employment and education opportunities, indicative of problems within their countries of origin) as well as the forces that pull them to the US (an economy dependent on cheap labor). Rather than engage this phenomenon intelligently, he'd rather put a posse together and scare people senseless by employing tactics that are violent, brutal, and uncompromising. Arpaio's the wrong man at the wrong time in U.S. history, and this book demonstrates just how out of touch he is...