Maricopa County voters in Arizona are growing tired of a federal oversight program costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new poll.
Noble Predictive Insights released a report showing that 53% of Maricopa County voters think federal oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has gone on too long. The county is Arizona's most populous and is home to Phoenix.
In 2013, a federal judge ruled the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office violated Latino drivers’ constitutional rights after the office used racial profiling and illegal traffic stops.
To implement policy reforms, the office was placed under federal oversight with a court-appointed monitor.
Maricopa County Supervisor Thomas Galvin previously told The Center Square that by this year, the ongoing federal oversight program will have cost taxpayers $353 million. According to ProPublica, auditors of the fund found that 72% of all the money the sheriff’s office had spent was “misattributed or misappropriated.”
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