Lawmen != police My town just had the sheriff for example. The sheriff had a small crew of 1-2 deputies and a secretary. When something really rough would happ

Lawmen != police My town just had the sheriff for example. The sheriff had a small crew of 1-2 deputies and a secretary. When something really rough would happen, the sheriff would round up a crew. It was a really light group of people. Lots of differences between that, a militia, community policing, etc. Even today some rural communities are “policed” very differently. Now that same town has a standing police force of 40 officers, a K-9 unit, and they have fancy military vehicles. This is with a change from 5000->10000 in population. This was all up until pretty recently (1940s-1950s) too.