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This was previously an answer on another, rightly deleted, question.I can’t think of anyone who deserves a pardon less than Joe Arpaio.Joe Arpaio is a uniquely monstrous man. He’s most famous for extremely aggressive and discriminatory policing of illegal immigrants, of course, but even if you set aside everything he did to illegal immigrants, he has still earned a special place in hell. Here’s a list of some of his crimes. If the first few items don’t seem that objectionable, keep reading, because they get a lot worse.His deputies arrested not just illegal immigrants, but any Latino person who couldn’t immediately prove their immigration status. This occasionally led to American citizens spending months in Arpaio’s jail. In one case, a county employee was denied access to the jail because they didn’t have proof of citizenship with them (and were Latino).Speaking of his jail, he made sure it was as horrible as he could possibly make it. He boasted about it. Keep in mind, jails (as opposed to prisons) house only short-term and pre-trial inmates. Most inmates in a jail haven’t been convicted—they are legally innocent, and some of them will undoubtedly be proven innocent. He tormented them anyway. Among other things:They gave inmates two small meals per day, which were made smaller because the food was often rotten, moldy, or contaminated. (This saved money—each meal cost 15¢.) Even if they had been entirely edible, the meals wouldn’t have included enough calories for sedentary adults, let alone ones working in chain gangs. A court had to order Arpaio to feed his prisoners edible meals which met minimum USDA requirements.They denied inmates basic sanitation; a court had to order Arpaio to provide working sinks and toilets, as well as soap and toilet paper.They ignored inmates with medical emergencies; many of them died because the guards thought they were faking. A court had to order Arpaio to provide basic medical care and regular access to prescribed medications to his inmates.A special case of the above: An unborn baby died in Joe Arpaio’s jail because the staff decided her mother’s extreme and unusual abdominal pain wasn’t an emergency. They waited four hours before calling paramedics. By the time they arrived, the mother had lost so much blood that her black skin had turned white.Even when babies were born alive, the jail had a strict policy: After delivery, new mothers were not allowed to see their babies in the hospital or the jail. In the case above, guards tried to prevent the mother from seeing her stillborn daughter before her funeral.The guards were all too ready to beat the inmates. Some inmates were strapped into interrogation chairs and beaten, tased, and strangled while restrained. Some of these victims of unjustified brutality died. Some of the dead were later found to be innocent.It’s believed that the death rate in his jail was sky-high compared to others, but nobody’s sure because he won’t release the figures.His “tent city” was, if it can be imagined, even worse. In the summer, inmates suffered through triple-digit heat with no air conditioning—a condition which would make a Phoenix apartment legally uninhabitable. One day, the temperature reached 145°; inmates’ shoes literally melted. Even the showers were no relief, because they were intentionally kept scalding hot. In the winter, when temperatures in the tents plunged, Arpaio forbade inmates to wear any warm clothing. Arpaio himself described the tent city as a “concentration camp”.And again, most of the inmates in a jail have not been convicted of anything. Some of them are innocent. If you want to argue about “coddling” convicted criminals, fine—but most of the people Arpaio put through these torturous conditions were not convicts. Joe Arpaio didn’t care that they had not been found guilty, and didn’t care that some of them would be found innocent. He just thought anyone he decided to chuck into his jail was automatically a “criminal” and deserved to be mistreated.Arpaio’s focus on illegal immigration was so monomaniacal that his department ignored serious crimes. They were particularly bad at investigating sex crimes. Arpaio’s department ignored four hundred sex crime cases, usually failing to carry out even a cursory investigation even when there were obvious leads. In one case, they told a little girl’s parents that their daughter’s exam had shown no signs that her uncle had raped her, then took no action on a letter from the state crime lab saying they had found some semen and needed a blood sample from the uncle. The uncle continued to rape the child; she eventually became pregnant.The fact that Arpaio’s department was bad at fighting crime started to show up in crime statistics, so Arpaio cooked the books, fraudulently closing cases and manipulating reports to cover up his own incompetence.Arpaio’s SWAT team once violently raided a house on suspicion they had a cache of automatic weapons. Either the tear gas canisters or the panicking people inside accidentally set the house on fire. Two men, a woman, and a toddler fled the house; so did a ten-month-old puppy, but a deputy forced the dog back inside, where it burned alive. The house and its contents were destroyed. Deputies found only a legally-owned shotgun and handgun in the ashes, and they arrested a resident for misdemeanor failure to appear in court for two traffic tickets. Deputies reportedly taunted him about his dead dog as he sat in jail.In 1999, with reelection looming, Arpaio arranged a publicity stunt: An informant used threats to an 18-year-old kid’s family to coerce him in a “conspiracy” to assassinate Arpaio, then undercover deputies drove him around while they “bought” various fake bomb parts and helped him assemble them, before showily arresting him in front of local media as he was planting the “bomb”. Arpaio, buoyed by the dramatic story of his foiled assassination, won his election; the kid rotted in his jail for four years until a jury acquitted him of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder due to entrapment.Arpaio used his power as sheriff to investigate his critics—whether they were reporters, lawyers, judges, local politicians, or just private citizens applauding at a county meeting. In one case, he got into a disagreement with a neighboring city, so he carried out an “immigration raid” on their city hall; he arrested only some Latino janitors, who all had documentation proving they were here legally. Then he raided their police department to search for evidence that their documents were fake. (He found none, of course.)All of the above, and many other abuses besides, led to a long string of lawsuits against Arpaio. The plaintiffs usually won or received huge settlements, and the county of course had to foot the bill. Arpaio’s blatantly illegal actions have cost Maricopa County taxpayers over $92 million just in settlements and legal fees.When the lawsuits finally got too expensive to ignore, the county supervisors decided to rein Arpaio in by cutting his budget. He responded by indicting them on felony charges so preposterous, the lawyer he worked with lost his law license for filing them.Finally, after nearly two decades of this crap, the federal courts stepped in. A judge ordered Arpaio to stop some of his illegal practices; rather than complying, Arpaio told his deputies to ignore the order and launched an investigation of the judge’s wife. After Arpaio lost the suit, the judge asked the Department of Justice to prosecute him for criminal contempt (basically, for ignoring a judge’s order). After all Arpaio has done, this was a bit like getting Al Capone for tax evasion, but at least it was something. Arpaio was convicted, and sentencing was set for October. Then Trump decided he was a good guy who was “convicted for doing his job”.Joe Arpaio is a petty tyrant who thinks anyone he doesn’t like is a “criminal”, and who thinks it’s okay to illegally torment these “criminals”, sometimes to death, while letting actual criminals like child rapists get away with their crimes. I have no doubt that he committed more crimes as Sheriff of Maricopa County than anyone he ever threw into his torturous jail.Democrats are outraged because everyone should be outraged by Joe Arpaio’s actions. Fiscal conservatives should be outraged by an out-of-control elected representative whose blatantly illegal, ineffective, and immoral actions wasted $92 million taxpayer dollars in court. Law-and-order voters should be outraged by a charlatan who allowed serious, violent crime to rage out of control in his jurisdiction, and then lied about it. People who care about family values should be outraged by a leader who let child rape slide out of sheer negligence. Pro-life activists should be outraged by a cruel official who allowed his underlings to repeatedly mistreat pregnant women (there are stories I didn’t mention), and in at least one case caused the death of an unborn child. Those who value “blue lives” should be outraged by a disgrace to the badge who represents everything a cop shouldn’t be. And patriots of all stripes should be outraged by a hypocritical despot who wraps himself in the flag while he wipes his ass with the Constitution, brutalizing his inmates, arresting his enemies, and terrorizing his citizens in ways the Founders explicitly wrote the Bill of Rights to prevent.I won’t pretend I think highly of Donald Trump, but even I don’t think he signed that pardon knowing just how awful “Sheriff Joe” truly is. I don’t think any decent person who knew the truth could give him the time of day.Source: Many, but primarily: Wait, Do People Actually Know Just How Evil This Man Is?

You learn to live with the danger. I am more scared of Snowbird drivers than I am of any of the local pests and critters.Pest control is big business here. There are licensed commercial pest control companies. We use a monthly service. There are lots of do-it-yourself options from specialty stores, to hardware stores, and even supermarkets.SPIDERS: There are quite a few species of spiders. As far as I know, there are only really two venomous spiders in the suburbs: 1) the black widow (recognizable by a messy web and a red hourglass pattern on the ventral side of the abdomen); and 2) the brown recluse (it’s brown). Black widows are almost entirely exterior. We had a dog eat a black widow right off of the web. We freaked, took the dog to the vet. The vet wasn’t very concerned, they appeared to have seen this many times. They observed our dog overnight and there were no ill effects.As you get to the edge of the suburbs and up against the Sonoran Desert, you get tarantulas and wolf spiders. They look really scary but aren’t very dangerous to humans or pets. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. If they are in the stables or the barn, scoop them up on a shovel and take them out into the desert.SCORPIONS: They are everywhere. They are mostly nocturnal. It is a fun game to hunt them; They glow under a black-light. If we are camping, we shake our boots out before putting them on. They really like moist, dark places. A friend who lived in the Arcadia neighborhood of east Phoenix, got up, slid his foot into his slipper, and tells me he shrieked in pain. A scorpion was in his slipper and bit his big toe. A scorpion in our storage shed bit my grandmother. She was one tough old lady. Nothing happened to her but the poor little scorpion died. :) Pest control controls scorpions.SNAKES: In the suburbs we mostly have non-venomous species, i.e. gopher snakes and garter snakes. They are your friends and help to control rodents. As you get to the edge of the suburbs and up against the Sonoran Desert you get some buzzworms - mostly western Diamondbacks with a few Mojave buzzworms thrown in. I see them hiking. They hibernate in the winter. I call them buzzworms because rattlers sounds scary and evil. I don’t like to freak out my wife. They are basically a worm that buzzes. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. If we are bushwhacking in brushy areas, we sometimes wear snake gaiters. If we see a buzzworm around the yard, the pool or near the house, we call the Arizona Herpetological Society or County Animal Control and they coordinate removal. All snakes fill an important niche in the ecosystem of the desert. Fried buzzworm is pretty tasty. Sort of tastes like fried calamari.MOSQUITOS: Yeah, we got them. Not very many but enough to be a nuisance. They have gotten worse over the years as more people move here and put in swimming pools and watered lawns. I live near a golf course so we have them. A few of them do carry West Nile Virus, some equine viruses, Zika Virus, and mostly are just a bother.RATS: We have two types that are bothersome: 1) roof rats; 2) Norway Rats, They are not native, they came in with landscaping. They love citrus.COYOTES: A big nuisance. Damn coyotes are everywhere, even downtown. Especially scary if you have smaller dogs or cats. They will jump suburban fences and grab small animals right out of a backyard while the owner is watching. And Maricopa County Animal Control won’t do anything about them. You can’t discharge a firearm in city limits, so you might want to keep a cross bow or compound bow nearby.ALLIGATORS: Very, very rare anywhere in Arizona. Call Arizona Herpetological Society. They love these challenges. Desert GatorGILA MONSTERS: One of only two venomous lizards in the Southwest. As you get to the edge of the suburbs and up against the Sonoran Desert, you can encounter them. Very rarely. If they come into your yard call Arizona Herpetological Society.SKUNK PIGS: Commonly called Javelina or Peccary. They travel in small packs and get into garbage and gardens. These are not the big feral hogs that they have in Texas. These are more closely related to small hippopotomi.CHUPACABRAS: Very, very rare in the suburbs. Especially if you don’t have goats.JACKALOPES: Very, very rare in the suburbs. Their antlers are dangerous so stay away and call County Animal Control or 911.

I am not an attorney, and have no specialized legal knowledge. That being said, I am of the opinion that you do not have to carry an ID at all times in Arizona or any other state. But if approached by a policeman, it is my understanding that you may be required to identify yourself if asked to do so. And that is not just true in Arizona. It was the case not long ago that some Hispanics in Maricopa county were stopped either while driving or walking and detained, sometimes for hours, even if they were American citizens, merely because of their appearance. The sheriff is currently facing possibly severe penalties in a lawsuit over these practices. But I am hearing or reading of no such cases these days. I carry a driver’s license because I am usually driving, but not when I walk the dog.