Population: 1,567,924
Murders: 167
City Manager salary range: $163,592 to $257,670
Estimated cost to taxpayers of lawsuits filed against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio: $43 million
Riders served by the new light rail project last year: 11 million, beating expectations by 34 percent
Time Friday and Saturday service ends: 3 am
Amount paid to the family of a man who was brutally assaulted by his deputies after video showed fourteen guards beating, choking, and suffocating him: $8.25 million
Year the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series: 2001
Average high temperature for the first three weeks of July 2003: 110 degrees
High temperature that year inside the tent city that Sheriff Arpaio set up jail people: 138 degrees
Number of those inmates given permission to strip down to the pink boxer shorts issued them: 2,000
Annual rainfall: about 8 inches per year
Predicted number of games it will take the Los Angeles Lakers to beat the Phoenix Suns in this year's Western Conference Finals: 5
Year that the GOP convention won't be held in Phoenix: 2012
