A man wanted in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy in Cypress Park has been returned to the ...

A funeral procession will carry a fallen Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office captain to his final resting place on Thursday.

A captain with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office has been identified as the victim in a head-on collision Thursday ...

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 ...

The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office arrested an El Salvadorian national who’s been wanted for 20 years on an outstanding ...

Roberto Salazar is the last of six charged in the killing of Deputy Juan Abel Escalante, who was gunned down while leaving ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...