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Tuesday, June 04, 2024

County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability: "A failure of democracy"

County sheriff's officers are three times more lethal than city police, a CBS News investigation has found. 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide.
-WiscoDave