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More than $7,000 in cable TV subscriptions.

An $11,000 golf cart.

$1.5 million in renovations to office space in a swanky Phoenix high-rise.

And another $1.7 million for Tasers.

Those were among more than $200 million in expenses that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office billed to a class-action settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

MCSO was very clear they were going to misappropriate funds. Arpaio was never subtle.

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