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Does anyone live in a rural place with only a county sheriff? I live in rural ND and there is more law enforcement than that. Also, corrupt sheriffs have been

• tyingq 6y ago
  Well, yes, there's technically things like State Police, but they aren't physically around much. The corrupt sheriff problem is rampant in Oklahoma for sure. I know that civil asset forfeiture laws made it worse. Since they are elected positions, it's difficult to get rid of a bad apple because they have more money than anyone else to run campaigns.
• wccrawford 6y ago
  I used to, and to my knowledge, that place is still like that. If you lived outside the city limits (which is really easy in a city of 3000 people, but a large county overall) then the only police who would respond to calls were county.
• kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  Some towns share the cost of policing by letting the sheriff's office handle law enforcement. The county extracts more money from taxes to do this but there is less duplicated effort overall.