Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Emily Farris
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^ the problem of (admittedly niche) descriptive data in our field - there's little incentive to collect it, as few peer reviewed journal article places would publish something based off that kind of data.
There's no arrest in this case (yet?) but if the sheriff is removed/resigned/or otherwise out of office, I haven't been adding them to the spreadsheet I'm informally keeping of sheriffs who have been arrested. Maybe at some point I'll get serious about the data collection and beef it up.
A sheriff was successfully recalled yesterday (almost never happens) over allegations of missing drug evidence and falsifying employee time sheets.
"U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran to Retaliate for Downed Helicopter"
They haven't made the sheriffs arrested spreadsheet yet. www.kpcw.org/wasatch-coun...
Utah voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2024 to enshrine independently elected sheriffs in their state Constitution, ensuring this problem would be made even more difficult to solve.
Writing today got interrupted for new plants, which is very exciting.
