Michigan Map It’s Called Pop Shirt
They are elected. This can be good and bad, of course. So that means there is a more direct layer of accountability, in theory. However, it can also mean that people elect a shitty sheriff, because (s)he is shitty to minorities or whatever but not to them. A famous example is sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County. Mob approaches vehicular gates and begin to push on it in an act of defiance. Unfortunately, someone forgot to lock them and they swung wide open. A freaked out KNP cop starts running to the Michigan Map It’s Called Pop Shirt gate to lock it, but his Sargent recalls him and scolds him for ‘freaking out’. The Sargent grabs the keys, takes a breath, and calmly walks to the gate and locks it. The protesters watch as the gate is locked, wait for the cop to step away, and begin rocking the shit out of it.
I’ve lived in Maricopa County for 30 years. Everyone I know was so freaking happy when Arpaio lost. A bad sheriff can change a community in a really awful way. I’m hopeful, although the state has a long way to go. Sheriffs’ offices spend a lot of time doing civil work, delivering paperwork, transporting prisoners, all kinds of stuff, and they also have their criminal jurisdictions. In my city, the city sheriff handles court security as a primary responsibility, for example. In Virginia, they have no term limits. Virginia is different in that every city is its own jurisdiction… they don’t fall under the jurisdiction of Michigan Map It’s Called Pop Shirt counties. So in addition to county sheriffs, each city in Virginia also has a sheriff. The sheriff is the top law enforcement official in a county, but not in a city… that’s usually the chief of police. Again, that’s how the Commonwealth (state) of Virginia does it.
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