Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.

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 ...

So " The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States," a new book by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, is long overdue.

Across the United States, sheriffs will ask voters for their support this fall to remain in office. In most counties, these elections are uncompetitive: Sheriffs usually run either unopposed or ...

The sheriffs group has railed against gun control laws, COVID-19 mask mandates and public health restrictions, as well as alleged election fraud. It has also quietly spread its ideology across the ...

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.