Joe Arpaio Wants To Use Asset Forfeiture Money to Buy Drones

To hunt down drug dealers

Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio confirmed on Monday that he wants to acquire unmanned drones for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, arguing that he would fund the purchases in part through money seized in drug busts.

"Isn't it great?" Arpaio told KNXV-TV. "It would be the criminals buying these to arrest more criminals."

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[briny]

Aside from refuting the notion that “crime never pays,” I would personally laud him for learning by example. As if the federal government hasn’t been doing this for decades (at least since RICO passed) and getting in on the ground floor in the privacy is dead game.