[UA] Explain American laws to me

[Patrick O'Duffy]

Yiannakos wrote:

> Here in NY it's State Trooper / County Sheriff / City
> Police. (Side note, around here anyway, the sheriff is actually a single
> elected official who is head of the sheriff's office/department. The
> nice fellows in the cars who like to give me tickets are officially
> sheriff's deputies.)

We don't elect any law enforcement officials in this country, and there isn't this
level of subdivision in the police.  There are state police and Federal police
(kinda the same thing as the FBI, but a lot less glamourous), nothing more.

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

Sumo is the most perfect of sports.  It has elegance, ceremony, danger,
art, speed, and, most important, two fat bastards smacking the shit out
of each other.

 - Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #26



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