{"id":7115,"date":"2012-05-11T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T10:23:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7115","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com: &#8220;Lawsuit Says Sheriff Discriminated Against Latinos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/11\/us\/justice-department-sues-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html?src=un&amp;feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fnational%2Findex.jsonp\">Lawsuit Says Sheriff Discriminated Against Latinos<\/a> by Fernanda Santos and Charlie Savage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PHOENIX \u2014 A federal lawsuit asserting a \u201cpattern of unlawful discrimination\u201d by law enforcement officials here claims that Latinos at the county jail were often referred to as \u201cstupid\u201d or addressed with a coarse ethnic slur. It also says that an e-mail circulated among jail officers contained a photograph of a Chihuahua in a swimsuit, over the words, \u201cA rare photo of a Mexican Navy Seal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On the streets, Latino drivers were five to nine times more likely than their non-Latino counterparts to be stopped or searched, the suit asserts, for appearing disheveled or dirty or if it was deemed that too many people were in the back seat. Some were detained because they were said to have looked nervous or avoided eye contact. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Portraying Sheriff Arpaio\u2019s roughly 900 deputies as poorly trained and supervised, the suit contends that they are far more likely to stop and search Latinos than non-Latinos. Further, the complaint asserts, there is a \u201cculture of bias\u201d against Latinos among the 1,800 officers in the county jail system. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}