Sheriffs' Insignia of the United States
Author: James V. Claflin
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781882824168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James V. Claflin
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781882824168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Emily M. Farris
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2024-09-05
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0226834506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sobering exploration of the near unchecked power of sheriffs in the United States. Across the United States, more than 3,000 sheriffs occupy a unique position in the US political and legal systems. Elected by voters—usually in low-visibility, noncompetitive elections—sheriffs oversee more than a third of law enforcement employees and control almost all local jails. They have the power to both set and administer policies, and they can imprison, harm, and even kill members of their communities. Yet, they enjoy a degree of autonomy not seen by other political officeholders. The Power of the Badge offers an unprecedented, data-rich look into the politics of the office and its effects on local communities. Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman draw on two surveys of sheriffs taken nearly a decade apart, as well as election data, case studies, and administrative data to show how a volatile combination of authority and autonomy has created an environment where sheriffs rarely change; elections seldom create meaningful accountability; employees, budgets, and jails can be used for political gains; marginalized populations can be punished; and reforms fail. Farris and Holman also track the increasingly close linkages between sheriffs and right-wing radical groups in an era of high partisanship and intra-federal conflict.
Author: David Struckhoff
Publisher: Justice Research
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890867065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William K. Emerson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780806126227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →army branches - infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers - as well as the service and support branches comprising doctors and nurses, chaplains, musicians, quartermasters, military police, and the many others who have made up the U.S. Army. Insignia worn by all soldiers, such as eagles, devices with the letters US, and other letters and numbers, are also described and illustrated. Historians, military collectors, military reenactors, antique dealers and collectors,
Author: John M. Hollenbeck
Publisher: M.T. Publishing Company
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781932439809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R Spencer Kidd
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-11-23
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1471777294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book gives an historical overview of all the fifty State Police and Highway Patrol organisations, together with the uniform and badge descriptions and state law enforcement museums where they exist. Includes 218 black & white, 226 coloured illustrations and 81 colour paintings of uniforms and badges.
Author: Brent K. Ashabranner
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780761315223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the planning and creation of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and profiles some of those police officers who gave their lives in the line of duty.