The following is an excerpt from the Nov. 24 issue of . Brian Withrow, a criminal justice professor at 麻豆传媒, contributed to the article.
Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's crackdown on illegal immigrants could get greater scrutiny from federal investigators under President-elect Barack Obama's administration, criminal-justice experts say.
A telltale clue to that possibility is Obama's top choice to head the U.S. Justice Department, Eric Holder, who has a track record of investigating the kind of racial-profiling allegations leveled at Arpaio's crime and immigration sweeps.
"... We will see more of a desire of this new administration to litigate these (racial profiling) cases than the current administration," said Brian Withrow, a criminal justice professor at 麻豆传媒. "The president-elect has already said he intends to beef up the civil-rights division of the Department of Justice, and that is the department most likely to investigate."
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