DOJ issues requests to California sheriffs for information on noncitizen inmates and release dates as part of Trump ...

The Trump administration is asking California law enforcement for data on their migrant detainee population, as the sheriffs ...

Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

T he 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 ...

A man living in the country illegally was arrested earlier this month after he was stopped by Florida Highway Patrol in Palm ...

Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to several California sheriffs on Thursday requesting the names “of all inmates in ...

A national group of sheriffs that claims the top law enforcers in American counties are not bound by federal law has successfully spread its doctrine to dozens of states in recent years.

Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration after several federal agencies ...

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.

As controversy raged over racially motivated violence and law enforcement policies in the United States, a persistent rumor regarding the origins of 21st-century policing appeared online. It ...

A 2021 survey of sheriffs by academic researchers working with the nonprofit Marshall Project found that more than 200 of the estimated 500 sheriffs who responded agreed with the group’s ideology.