10 Facts About Joe Arpaio

1. In 1998 Joe Arpaio instituted a policy of charging inmates for their meals, levying a dollar-a-day tariff against each of those incarcerated.

2. In 2007, Joe Arpaio said that it was an "honor" for his department to be compared to the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist organization.

3. On July 7, 2009, Joe Arpaio held a press conference and announced that he would not cooperate with the investigation, either by providing documents or permitting interviews with personnel.

4. In 2005, Joe Arpaio began focusing on enforcing immigration laws, after Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was elected with a campaign slogan of "Stop illegal immigration.

5. In February 2007, Joe Arpaio instituted an in-house radio station he called KJOE, broadcasting classical music, opera, Frank Sinatra hits, patriotic music, and educational programming five days a week, four hours each day.

6. In January 2018, Joe Arpaio announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the US Senate in 2018.

7. As of September 2012, Joe Arpaio was a defendant in a federal class action suit and a United States Department of Justice suit, both of which alleged racial profiling.

8. In November 2010, Joe Arpaio created an armed illegal immigration operations posse to help his deputies enforce immigration law.

9. In late 2008 and early 2009, Joe Arpaio appeared in Smile.

10. Over the course of his career, Joe Arpaio was the subject of several federal civil rights lawsuits.