I watch C*O*P*S on occasion.  A common technique for them is to show the officer in a patrol car or other non-intervention situation, talking about the job and why they like it, how they got into it, and so on.  Then they go on a call and you see them in action.

There's one where you see the officer talk about his history.  Where he worked before, he was a dispatcher.  He said he had trouble moving up, but then he moved to Arizona and here he was!  He's one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies.

Now the action portions:  The officers stopped a young man in a car and asked to look in his car trunk.  There was marijuana.  The kid was arrested. 

The twist was that the kid was just a few doors down from his house.  His mother and then his father came out to try to help.  His mother wanted to get the car keys and take the car home but, no, it was going to be towed.  The father came out and was obviously angry. 

The officer told him to go home.

The guy turned around and went home.

The officer then followed him and arrested him.

You know, if this sheriff had actually had police training, I might have given him the benefit of the doubt in that he might have seen or heard something that made him think the father was doing something wrong.  But come one.  He was GOING HOME as instructed and you arrest him for it?

And these are the people who are supposed to make the judgment calls on whether someone's an undocumented alien?  Based on their shoes?  Stop putting me on, it's "arrest 'em all and let INS sort 'em out."

This law can't go away fast enough.  It's being challenged on Constitutional grounds, and I think that's correct, but it's flawed all the way through, from concept to execution.