With one HUGE difference: Local Police and State are hired and ultimately paid by Federal Funds via the State; i.e. play ball/our rules or your budgets get cut. Sheriffs are elected and paid by We the People; i.e. Do your Constitutional Job or you wont have one.
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A Sheriff of any county in the nation can as well. https://www.federallawenforcement.org/2014/12/local-law-enforcement-has-it-well-within-their-rights-to-arrest-federal-officers/
Any local or state law enforcement can but they need a DA or State Attorney General with balls. That’s the problem.
Paging Ken Paxton
With one HUGE difference: Local Police and State are hired and ultimately paid by Federal Funds via the State; i.e. play ball/our rules or your budgets get cut. Sheriffs are elected and paid by We the People; i.e. Do your Constitutional Job or you wont have one.