What is the difference between a sheriff and police department? Do they govern different things and have completely separate powers? Does one have more jurisdiction over another and what happens when it comes to committing a criminal offence?
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So – to put it in british terms – It would be the same as if the police commisioner of York was elected, not appointed, with the power to change/enforce “”some”” laws as he/she saw fit for that area. He/she would have the same powers – but in the US vs UK there is a bit more jurisdiction differences, in that a Yorkshire police officer, is still a UK police officer in Newcastle, or London, while in the the US its many different law enforcement agencies, sometimes overlapping – and the FBI is supposed to be “the national cops”
I have never been a cop in the US – but in reality I imagine its not at all a “competition” like in the movies where the police starts questioning each other on authority, but more on “who is actually going to fill out the paper-work for this arrest, well it should be “you” because he was arrested where you had jurisdiction. I can not imagine a situation where ie a local cop was to abort a chase just because the car is now in a different jurisdiction, its not that black/white.
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