Dallas County can not meet that sheer number of lawsuits(1), but it does meet/exceed (as far as I can determine) the number of serious, no-s**t, somebody got seriously abused lawsuits.
Stuff like folks who die in jail through malevolence, neglect, etc. Folks who suffered some terrible injury or maiming due to jail folks not getting them treatment in a timely manner. "Oops, we lost you in the system for 60 days." That sort of stuff.
Anyways, this web site says 5000 lawsuits and $42million:http://www.joesgottogo.com/lawsuits.htmlI googled six or 7 and they all were prison condition related, either explicit complaints about the tents & chow or refer to federale standards for jail-running not being met. (The latter of which could be any of the jailbirds through Dallas County's jail.)
The ACLU is representation on a potful that were combined into a class action. I would not be surprised if the vast majority are sourced out of
very few attorneys. IOW, there is a lot of gold-digging and lawfare(2) going on.
Oh, I'm sure a bunch of them are more substantive than a prisoner who got his feelings hurt that he had to spend a week in tents, but the ACLU (who are supposed to be the pros) can hardly do more than complain about Arpaio's flashy measures:
http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/graves-et-al-v-arpaio-et-al-pretrial-briefThat ^^^ is some pretty weak tea by the heavy-hitters in the league. It amounts to jailbirds not happy about and complaining about being in jail. Cry me a river.
After spending a few minutes on Joe's sins, the sin that sets him apart from Dallas County's sheriff (and almost ALL the other big-metro sheriffs) is his flamboyance and refusal to toe the politically-correct sanctuary-city line (Dallas being one...I'd bet dollars to donuts Houston and NYC are, too).
Maybe THAT is th real scandal: they are all a bunch of thugs.
I dunno, sounds like you have a double-standard for LEO thuggishness. One for folks who use it almost exclusively on Americans and another for those who bring it on non-Americans who are criminals by their very presence on American soil. You laud thuggishness in your state, while denouncing it elsewhere.
And this whole, "I used to be a supporter of Joe's..." sounds like either a spurned lover or a seminar caller.
After taking a little time to dig into your links & "how about those 2100 lawsuits?" sort of posts, I think I'll no longer grant you much credibility on this issue, especially as to how Arpaioi's supposed to be exceptionally bad/corrupt/whatever relative to other Sheriffs in big metro areas. Once past the thin icing of accusation, where one expects a pound cake, one finds a spongecake.
(1) How many lefty, ACLU-bound law students & law profs are going to help sue a lefty female lesbian Mexican American? Yeah, not many takers. But, dangle Arpaio in front of them...
(2) Use of legal system as a weapon. We see the Saudis and other Islamists using lawfare and venue-shopping to silence critics. We saw another kind in the multiple groundless lawsuits vs Palin after the election. It looks like the tactic is being used vs Arpaio, trying to destroy him and make him look exceptional when he is more garden-varoety.