America’s ‘Toughest Sheriff’ Says You’re Never Too Old to Be Mayor

Joseph Arpaio said he wants to be mayor of Fountain Hills, Arizona, and continue his legacy of service from years as Maricopa County’s top cop.

Joseph Arpaio, "America's Toughest Sheriff," and a candidate for mayor of Fountain Hills, Ariz., sits in his office at campaign headquarters on Sept. 26, 2023. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz.—When “America’s Toughest Sheriff” Joe Arpaio wore a younger man’s uniform—times were different in Maricopa County, Arizona. 

The streets and neighborhoods felt relatively safer. The now porous southern border was less like Swiss cheese, the fentanyl scourge but a specter in the future.