There usually nominally is, and they may do some of the work, but overfunding law enforcement and then having them cover work that should have been done by othe

There usually nominally is, and they may do some of the work, but overfunding law enforcement and then having them cover work that should have been done by other agencies that whose funding has been limited by the drive to stuff more money into LE is a pretty common pattern for US state and local governments. But also the dominance of car culture in the US is such that the principal state police force may actually be principally designed as a component of the highway traffic authority, as is the cass in California where the Highway Patrol was always larger than and in 1995 absorbed the State Police.