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 ...

To assess whether sheriffs’ partisanship affects political violence, Rosenzweig constructed a large dataset covering over 10,000 county-years across 37 states between 2004 and 2018.

Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of sheriff should be abolished due to its entrenched and ideologically driven ...

CARTER: Well, sheriffs are unique in that they are, as you noted, elected across most states in the United States, so 46 states elect their sheriffs. They're county-level offices, ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, states often make the choice for them. States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in deciding whether to participate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. But states increasingly are making the choice for them. More and ...

The first, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States," by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman (author interview here), is a rigorously synthetic work of political ...

So "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States," a new book by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, is long overdue.

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.

Sheriffs in the United States don't often get national news attention, but Zuchowski's request was covered in The Washington Post, NBC News and The Guardian, among others.. There are more than ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in deciding whether to participate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. But states increasingly are making the choice for them.