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	<title>Phoenix City &#187; Phoenix News</title>
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		<title>Scottsdale police cite swimmer at Phoenix Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A spectator at the Waste Management Phoenix Open was cited after he jumped into a lake at the TPC Scottsdale course Sunday during the final round of the tournament, police said. Police identified the man as Rigoberto Polanco, 23, of Mesa, who jumped into the water from the public venue side of the course about <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/02/06/scottsdale-police-cite-swimmer-at-phoenix-open/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A spectator at the Waste Management Phoenix Open was cited after he jumped into a lake at the TPC Scottsdale course Sunday during the final round of the tournament, police said.</p>
<p>Police identified the man as Rigoberto Polanco, 23, of Mesa, who jumped into the water from the public venue side of the course about 3:30 p.m., said Scottsdale officer David Pubins.</p>
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		<title>Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office lawyers to meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers in Arizona for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department plan Monday to meet for the first time to resolve federal accusations of civil rights violations against the department run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The meeting would come nearly two months after the Justice Department released a scathing Dec. <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/02/03/maricopa-county-sheriffs-office-lawyers-to-meet/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.statesman.com/multimedia/dynamic/01321/AZAM101_1321290k.jpg" alt="http://www.statesman.com/multimedia/dynamic/01321/AZAM101_1321290k.jpg" width="135" height="102" />Lawyers in Arizona for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department plan Monday to meet for the first time to resolve federal accusations of civil rights violations against the department run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.<span id="more-692"></span></p>
<p>The meeting would come nearly two months after the Justice Department released a scathing Dec. 15 report accusing the sheriff’s office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish in Arizona’s most populous county.</p>
<p>Joseph Popolizio, one of the lawyers representing the sheriff’s office, wrote in a letter Wednesday to a DOJ official that the meeting was scheduled involving attorneys for both sides.</p>
<p>A sheriff’s spokesman said the meeting will be held in Phoenix and Arpaio will not attend.</p>
<p>Arpaio has long been known for launching traffic patrols that target illegal immigrants and raiding businesses suspecting of knowingly hiring illegal businesses.</p>
<p>He denies the racial profiling allegations and he struck a defiant tone in December in response to the Justice Department’s report, calling it a politically motivated attack by the Obama administration that will make Arizona unsafe by keeping illegal immigrants on the street.</p>
<p>The civil rights allegations have led some Arpaio critics to call for his resignation, including the National Council of La Raza, a prominent advocacy group Latinos that held a news conference Thursday to call for the sheriff to step down.</p>
<p>The organization’s president, Janet Murguia, said Arpaio has created a culture of fear among Latinos in the Phoenix area, so much so that many don’t report crimes.</p>
<p>“Joe Arpaio likes to call himself America’s toughest sheriff, but a tough sheriff fosters a healthy respect for law and order, keeps the peace, and strikes fear into the heart of criminals, not the people he or she has sworn to protect,” Murguia said. “It is long past time for America’s worst sheriff to go.”</p>
<p>Arpaio has said he won’t resign and intends to seek a sixth term this year.</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez, who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, wrote in a Jan. 17 letter to Popolizio that MCSO appeared to be trying to delay a reform meeting by imposing “unworkable preconditions, including a prodigious discovery request containing 106 different demands for information.”</p>
<p>Popolizio replied in a Wednesday letter to Perez that the DOJ appeared to be ignoring Arpaio and the sheriff’ office’s “participation and cooperation with this investigation over the last 16 months.”</p>
<p>Popolizio again asked the DOJ “to provide the factual details behind its findings in this investigation” and said federal authorities may have relied on “inaccurate” stories in the media.</p>
<p>Perez replied to Popolizio on Thursday and said that “if the purpose of the meeting is solely for you to tell us in person that you do not agree with our findings, there is no reason for us to meet” and “the only path forward is litigation.”</p>
<p>Justice officials would like the office to seek training in constitutional policing and dealing with jail inmates with limited English skills, collect data on traffic stops and immigration enforcement, and establish a comprehensive disciplinary system that permits the public to make complaints against officers without fear of retaliation.</p>
<p>The sheriff’s office also is facing criticism over more than 400 sex-crimes investigations — including dozens of alleged child molestations — that hadn’t been investigated adequately or weren’t examined at all over a three-year period ending in 2007.</p>
<p>Arpaio has apologized for the botched cases, reopened 432 sex-crimes investigations and made 19 arrests.</p>
<p>Separate from the civil rights probe, a federal grand jury has been investigating Arpaio’s office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009. That grand jury is examining the investigative work of the sheriff’s anti-public corruption squad.</p>
<p>The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America has been a national political fixture who has built his reputation on jailing inmates in tents and dressing them in pink underwear, selling himself to voters as unceasingly tough on crime and pushing the bounds of how far local police can go to confront illegal immigration.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix Open expected to cause major traffic delays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open tees off Thursday and is expected to cause major traffic delays with hundreds of thousands of people expected to swarm the TPC Scottsdale Golf Course, the Greatest Show On Grass will turn north Scottsdale into the greatest traffic jam. If you&#8217;re not going to the tournament, <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/02/02/phoenix-open-expected-to-cause-major-traffic-delays/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open tees off Thursday and is expected to cause major traffic delays with hundreds of thousands of people expected to swarm the TPC Scottsdale Golf Course, the Greatest Show On Grass will turn north Scottsdale into the greatest traffic jam. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not going to the tournament, the best advice is to avoid the area. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have business there, you will certainly be faced with some traffic,&#8221; Sgt. Mark Clark with Scottsdale police said.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix police ID suspect shot by shop owner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix police on Wednesday released the identity of a suspect who was shot by a smoke shop owner Tuesday night. Brandon McDermott, 22, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to rob a smoke shop near North Cave Creek Road and East Union Hills Drive, said James Holmes, spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. McDermott is <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/02/01/phoenix-police-id-suspect-shot-by-shop-owner/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phoenix police on Wednesday released the identity of a suspect who was shot by a smoke shop owner Tuesday night.</p>
<p>Brandon McDermott, 22, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to rob a smoke shop near North Cave Creek Road and East Union Hills Drive, said James Holmes, spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department. McDermott is also suspected of two other robberies in the area, a cleaners on East Saguaro Drive and a coffee store on East Bell Road, police said.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix commission votes for Arpaio to resign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Phoenix commission that focuses on equality issues voted unanimously for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and it wants Phoenix City Council members to take a stand. The Arizona Republic reports the Phoenix Human Relations Commission approved the resolution Monday by a 13-0 vote during a special meeting. Commission Chairwoman Diane D&#8217;Angelo says <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/31/phoenix-commission-votes-for-arpaio-to-resign/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJt5_S_Zsj5juV4IBQMT2rFSANWpG-kC5vLJPYci0QuBSy0z1b" alt="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJt5_S_Zsj5juV4IBQMT2rFSANWpG-kC5vLJPYci0QuBSy0z1b" width="103" height="77" />A Phoenix commission that focuses on equality issues voted unanimously for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and it wants Phoenix City Council members to take a stand.<span id="more-683"></span></p>
<p><strong>The Arizona Republic</strong> reports the Phoenix Human Relations Commission approved the resolution Monday by a 13-0 vote during a special meeting.</p>
<p>Commission Chairwoman Diane D&#8217;Angelo says she wanted the board to vote on the issue because of the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s recent findings that outline several civil-rights violations by the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, such as racial profiling and neglected sex-crime investigations.</p>
<p>Although the commission is an advisory board to the council, its decisions are non-binding. Council members are concerned the vote could affect the city&#8217;s jail contract.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix leaders try to halt Arpaio vote</title>
		<link>http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/30/phoenix-leaders-try-to-halt-arpaio-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix officials have tried to thwart a city commission’s vote that may call for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to step down. Recently, the executive assistant to the city manager, Lisa Takata, and head of the city’s Equal Opportunity Department, Lionel Lyons, spoke on the phone with Human Relations Commission Chairwoman Diane D’Angelo and tried <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/30/phoenix-leaders-try-to-halt-arpaio-vote/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phoenix officials have tried to thwart a city commission’s vote that may call for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to step down.</p>
<p>Recently, the executive assistant to the city manager, Lisa Takata, and head of the city’s Equal Opportunity Department, Lionel Lyons, spoke on the phone with Human Relations Commission Chairwoman Diane D’Angelo and tried to discourage her from asking her fellow 15 commissioners to vote on the issue.</p>
<p>City officials are afraid the commission’s vote could affect a contractual relationship with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.</p>
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		<title>Lindsay set to make A League debut for Phoenix</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenager Cameron Lindsay is set to make his A League football debut for the Wellington Phoenix on Sunday, when they host the Melbourne Heart. Lindsay who grew up in Auckland joined the club this season from English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. He can play in defence or the midfield and is likely to replace <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/26/lindsay-set-to-make-a-league-debut-for-phoenix/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teenager Cameron Lindsay is set to make his A League football debut for the Wellington Phoenix on Sunday, when they host the Melbourne Heart. Lindsay who grew up in Auckland joined the club this season from English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers.</p>
<p>He can play in defence or the midfield and is likely to replace defender Manny Muscat who&#8217;s back home in Melbourne with his partner expecting their first child.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix Suns defense keys recent surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as Suns coach Alvin Gentry has implored his team to run more with the ball, winning the past two games with a total of 170 points for the first time since November 2002 just might say more about who this season&#8217;s Suns are as they hit the quarter pole in Dallas Monday night. <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/23/phoenix-suns-defense-keys-recent-surge/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As much as Suns coach Alvin Gentry has implored his team to run more with the ball, winning the past two games with a total of 170 points for the first time since November 2002 just might say more about who this season&#8217;s Suns are as they hit the quarter pole in Dallas Monday night.</p>
<p>Between heavy roster turnover since the 2010 conference finals team and a lockout dragging down the league&#8217;s offense, the Suns play at a pace that is below the NBA average and score 12.1 fewer points per game than last season. But with two wins in a row, there is less reason to panic and hit the offense&#8217;s fast-forward button.</p>
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		<title>Phoenix CEO replacement still some way off</title>
		<link>http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/10/phoenix-ceo-replacement-still-some-way-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wellington Phoenix chairman Rob Morrison is pleased with the response in the club&#8217;s search for a new chief executive but it appears unlikely the incoming boss will be in charge after Nathan Greenham steps down on January 20. The club&#8217;s owners, Welnix, have advertised in both Australia and New Zealand and applications for the job <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/10/phoenix-ceo-replacement-still-some-way-off/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0fmvhsPu4R-wK8GaCEGbSbSHfsuiDqxaYZ2umaPpAZXNdPjBA" alt="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0fmvhsPu4R-wK8GaCEGbSbSHfsuiDqxaYZ2umaPpAZXNdPjBA" width="107" height="129" />Wellington Phoenix chairman Rob Morrison is pleased with the response in the club&#8217;s search for a new chief executive but it appears unlikely the incoming boss will be in charge after Nathan Greenham steps down on January 20.<span id="more-639"></span></p>
<p>The club&#8217;s owners, Welnix, have advertised in both Australia and New Zealand and applications for the job close tomorrow.</p>
<p>Morrison said &#8220;there won&#8217;t be anything out on that for a while yet&#8221; and Welnix consortium members – who include some of Wellington&#8217;s most successful businessmen – are likely to hold the fort until the right replacement for Greenham is found.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got all the right systems and controls there and the backup that we need so we&#8217;re all good,&#8221; Morrison said.</p>
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		<title>Police probe possible link between Arizona deaths</title>
		<link>http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/09/police-probe-possible-link-between-arizona-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona authorities hope to get ballistic results back Monday to determine if a deputy sheriff fatally shot while answering a burglary call and a New Hampshire couple found dead in their car were killed by the same gunman. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said investigators are examining a possible link between the shootings because similar <a href="http://getphoenixonline.com/2012/01/09/police-probe-possible-link-between-arizona-deaths/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arizona authorities hope to get ballistic results back Monday to determine if a deputy sheriff fatally shot while answering a burglary call and a New Hampshire couple found dead in their car were killed by the same gunman.</p>
<p>Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said investigators are examining a possible link between the shootings because similar guns are believed to have been used in both cases. &#8220;Because of the type of weapon used up in Sedona, he could be the guy,&#8221; Arpaio said.</p>
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