National Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Thompson says “We’re seeing a very favorable outcome of ...

Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

DOJ issues requests to California sheriffs for information on noncitizen inmates and release dates as part of Trump ...

Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.

There are more than 3,000 sheriffs elected at the county level in the United States, each of whom has authority and autonomy to both set and enforce law enforcement policy. For example, sheriffs ...

United States, and the court ruled 5-4 in favor of the main plaintiff, a Montana sheriff named Jay Printz. The majority opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said that the U.S. Department of Justice has threatened him with potential federal ...

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

Seven people believed to be in the United States illegally were taken into custody at an Albertville restaurant on Friday by ...

Across the United States, sheriffs will ask voters for their support this fall to remain in office. In most counties, these elections are uncompetitive: Sheriffs usually run either unopposed or ...