The idea is that police and sheriffs can help the feds capture the bad guys.
Optimists say that it will, because sheriffs can do so many things to release inmates safely.
Shackled around his wrists and ankles, Holmes was escorted into Arapahoe County Courthouse by two sheriffs deputies.
The mountain roads were sealed off as dozens of police, FBI agents, sheriffs and snipers moved in.
In Louisiana 52% of prisoners while away their time in local jails, typically run by rural sheriffs.
At least two sheriffs in Arizona said that the law won't result in great change for their departments.
The president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Roy Felber, said it sounds like a call to vigilantism.
Refusing to enforce the laws is wrong, and one that will someday backfire on those who support these sheriffs.
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New Orleanians voted to consolidate the seven assessor's offices, the criminal and civil sheriffs, and the various levee boards.
In the over-worked courts, cases were hurriedly rescheduled and sheriffs told that they would have to work longer hours.
Horne's office would oversee the free training with help from sheriffs, he said.
The National Sheriffs' Association gave him the 2004 Sheriff of the Year Award.
Still, knowing what we know about the new sheriffs, should we be surprised?
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Some rural sheriffs view the federal government as an adversary, with gun ownership at the core of that belief.
Where would drama be without its stereotypical stream of greedy corporate types, evil southern sheriffs, and arrogant prep school kids?
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Since sheriffs can use the money as they please, some might simply build more jails, then fill them up again.
Would these sheriffs still be heroes if they decided that federal laws discriminated against illegal immigrants, and refused to arrest them?
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Since temporary sheriffs are a lot cheaper than permanent ones, the ruling will cost the Scottish government a lot of money.
The bill would also eliminate county gun boards that have controlled gun registration and turn the process over to country sheriffs.
Several Arizona sheriffs have joined in to support the proposal, Horne said.
The only way Louisiana's local sheriffs and private-prison operators can make a profit on the per-diem payment is to skimp on costs.
Sheriffs can, for example, send troublemakers to mental-health treatment instead of jail.
The main difference is that sheriffs and their deputies have much more discretion over how to deal with such offenders than state-prison wardens do.
These sheriffs of Wall Street carve a notch on their gun barrels for the likes of Martha Stewart, Raj Rajaratnam, and their ilk.
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There will be two sheriffs deputies on every single train, both subways and light rail, and additional police presence at train stations and on buses.
One must wonder what other laws these sheriffs would selectively enforce.
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What really makes Louisiana stand out is that it has built a system that pays local sheriffs to lock people up, making reform almost impossible.
This is because temporary sheriffs' contracts are only for a year.
In 2007, 143 sheriffs and patrol officers died on the job--a rate of 21.4 per 100, 000 workers--making police work the 10th most dangerous job in America.
Scott Burns of the National District Attorneys Association says that elected sheriffs would be punished at the polls if they went around seizing property without good cause.
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