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.

The political affiliation of elected sheriffs in the United States does not appear to influence the local incidence of extremist violence, according to a new study published in Political Research ...

There is no better ground-level intelligence than cops,” Kash Patel said, as the Israel-Iran conflict and recent incidents ...

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared Monday at a national sheriffs’ conference in ...

Chesapeake Sheriff Dave Rosado plans to run as a write-in candidate this November despite losing the Republican primary to Chesapeake Police Officer Wallace Chadwick.

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 ...

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.

In Washington State, a law passed in 2019 put strict limits on what information could be shared with the federal government, and the attorney general, Mr. Brown, said his lawsuit against Sheriff ...

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 ...