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If you are a one party state minus Sheriffs then you are a one party state. Covid aside, 95% percent of the government is not law enforcement. And all the prose

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > If you are a one party state minus Sheriffs Which is not what I said, Sheriffs were an example, not an exhaustive list of exceptions. > 95% percent of the government is not law enforcement. That’s strange, because law enforcement, corrections, and criminal legal system is about 10% of California’s budget. > And all the prosecutors are dems No, they aren’t. Like all local offices, it’s a formally nonpartisan office, but its fairly common for Republicans or (especially in Dem-leaning areas), “independents” who were Republicans before running for the office and whose stances on policy issues are indistinguishable from Republicans to be DA’s, though DA’s are less consistently hard-right than Sheriffs.