From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police.

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    11 months ago

    Our sheriff is a corrupt piece of shit and apathetic people keep voting him in anyway. So this wouldn’t help here.

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      11 months ago

      My small town’s sheriff is a corrupt, and people vote him in because they know him.

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    11 months ago

    The part about sheriffs scares me as someone not well-versed in American affairs because I read previously that some sheriffs don’t believe that federal laws should apply to them and that could be good, I guess? But could also be really bad.