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County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability

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• vundercind 2y ago
  “Maybe we don’t need sheriffs” (Some More News) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gt5I3V5hWkU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gt5I3V5hWkU Presented in a style that is a bit of an acquired taste but covers the weirdness of the institution of sheriffs, the ways their lack of oversight makes the office exceptionally prone to abuse (observed, not just hypothetical), and the “constitutional sheriff” movement of sheriffs who think they answer only to whatever they imagine the law to be, basically. One part of that movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Sheriffs_and_Peace_Officers_Association https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Sheriffs_and_...
  • 082349872349872 2y ago
    Having moved to a jurisdiction with no counties, there are (among other improvements) trivially no sheriffs here. [we may not have counties, but we do have viable family farms. Good luck with that in the Old Country]
• DerekL 2y ago
  This part is relevant to Hacker News: > A Northern California sheriff accepted bribes to grant gun permits to political donors. That was Laurie Smith, sheriff of Santa Clara County.