Tompkins was charged with pressuring owners of a cannabis company by threatening to revoke a partnership with his office, ...

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 ...

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.

But states increasingly are making the choice for them. More and more, sheriffs’ hands are tied no matter whether they do — or don’t — want to help with deportations, though they often get ...

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.

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.

States are increasingly setting policy for sheriffs on how much they can cooperate with ICE at local jails. (Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) ...