What Is Nearly two-thirds of the local police and sheriff's departments in the U.S.?
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Passed professional hit men in the employment of the billionaire's generals!
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In California, the answer is yes.\n\nPolice officers, deputy sheriffs, highway patrol officers and all peace officers defined under California Penal Code 830.2 have jurisdiction anywhere in the state. Generally, city police departments have primary jurisdiction over all criminal offenses - including traffic offenses - that occur within their cities. City police departments often have a traffic enforcement division to fulfill this role. County sheriff's departments are generally primarily responsible for non traffic offenses that occur within unincorporated areas of a county. The California Highway Patrol is the agency primarily responsible for traffic enforcement on all roads and highways within the unincorporated areas of the state. That being said, a peace officer retains law enforcement authority anywhere in the state. For example, an LAPD officer could theoretically stop and ticket you in San Francisco. Would they...unlikely. Could they legally....aboslutely.\n\nFYI - I am an 11 year police veteran with a Southern California sheriff's department.
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As of 2004, just over 2.9 million.  That's the most current data available from the census bureau.
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Assuming that you're speaking of government, there is an executive at the head of every geographic subdivision (i.e., country, state, county, city/town/borough).  In the U.S., these are the president, governors, and mayors or city managers.  they essentially manage a huge staff of people whose function it is to oversee the safety, health, education, and social welfare of the people who live in the "subdivision" (called "constituents") and execute all functions that keep these areas appropriately afloat.
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If social degeneracy* is gradually eliminated, it will be possible to gradually reduce the size of the FBI, State and Local Police Forces.\n\nYes, compared to the theoretically possible ideal, there are far too many people working for the government.  There are currently far too many functions where government overlaps, with federal, state and local involvement.\n\nIf these functions could be served by regional authorities rather than by city, county, state and federal, there would be incredible savings.\n\nThe States could further the savings by making all police forces a part of the State Police.  This would enable bettering monitoring of the police and crime statistics and immediate apportionment to pronlem areas, far better crime prevention and evidence control and standards.\n\nTo say nothing of the far greater efficiencies.\n\n*prostitution, assault, robbery, burglary, theft, shoplifting, bank robbery, murder, kidnaping, illegal drugs, &c.
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As defined by the Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states, and is split into three smaller units: The South Atlantic States, which are Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia (plus the District of Columbia); the East South Central States of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee; and the West South Central States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
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local police department website
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good question.  i've been in countries where there's a soldier on the corner with a machine gun.  yet when i have a cup of coffee with one of the locals they admit they perceive the US as a police state.  it's a quandary.  there is a lot of crime here.  the terrible thing is the more rules and laws, and the more police, the more crime.\n\nin a democracy the level of freedom is determined by voters.
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Neither is "better".  They all serve basically the same function, that being the enforcement of the laws of the state and uphold the Constitution of the United States.\nThe difference comes only in the jurisdiction served.  City Police serve within the boundries of a city.  Sheriffs and their Deputies serve within the boundries of a county (including the cities within their county).  State Police or Highway Patrolmen serve within the boudries of the entire state (including all counties and cities within the state).\nTherefore, the State Police or Highway patrol have more jurisdiction than Sheriffs, who in turn have more jurisdiction than the City Police Departments.
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Pretty much anywhere. Every job involves some type of reporting, documenting, literature. Making a report the number one thing that most police officers are weak at. Politicans/ Government will love an English graduate. Telecommunications need script writers for the anchor persons.  Everywhere. Lawyers need paralegals and legal assistants.  Do not have to limit yourself to teaching. Every career requires excellent writing skills, knowledge of the English grammar. The opportunities are endless.
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Please note -- the greater majority of crimes are local crimes, not federal crimes.  It's not the duty of the federal government to make sure that state and local laws are enforced.
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Local governments are cities, counties, townships, school districts, fire districts, etc.  Anything less than the state level that can make laws and levy taxes.
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There are thousands of adminstrators that run different agencies and programs.  The are responsible for providing services that we use every day.  On the federal level, they are running Social Security, US Armed Forces, IRS, Department of Transportation, and so on.  On the state level, they are running MVD, state police, welfare programs, and so on.  On the local level, they run water services, garbage, police, fire, libraries, and so on.
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In the US it's gotta be New Orleans.  Worldwide, I would guess any communist country.  I see some people put Mexican cops.  I was once in Mexico with my wife and was talking with to Mexican cops.  Later, as we walked past their post again, one of the cops recognized me and asked me if I wanted to buy his police ball cap for five bucks.  I declined.  My wife said that they probably needed the money.  I didn't doubt that, but I told her it would be my luck that if I bought the cap I would probably be arrested for stealing it and then I would end up in a Mexican jail.  The cop would be five bucks richer, get his cap back and I'd have to pay a hefty fine.
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Central Organization for Police Specialists!\n\nBOO YA!
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For what state and county? You need to check with your local state corrections department or sheriff's office.
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The answer about the FBI is good.  There are also Federal Marshals, DEA, and other agencies which act in crimes crossing state lines too.\n\nAnd the "state lines" portion is critical.  America is a Federation of Sovereign States.  Each state is subordinate to the Federal government, but is allowed to, usually, make its own laws inside the state and trade agreements with other states in the Federation.\n\nAs such, each police force is different in their training, "rules of engagement", procedures, and authority.  With a country as large and diverse as the USA, this has worked well. The differences in the needs to police coastal cities verses areas in "fly over country" alone make a single police force unwieldy and cumbersome.\n\nJapan, South Korea, and Germany are relatively small, relatively homogeneous (though Germany is increasingly diverse) nations with long histories of central government control.  A central police force makes sense for them.  It does not make as much sense for an independently minded, large country such as the USA.\n\nAs for making up enemies or the "need" to have an enemy, the enemies we are fighting are the same ones defined by the Clinton Administration.  Was he making up enemies to cause “bloodlust” too?  Ohio thought they had no jihadists either, but caught several last month.