eli5 What’s the difference between a police officer and a sheriff?

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eli5 What’s the difference between a police officer and a sheriff?

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Another version; the sheriff department runs the whole county, they don’t do much in town because that’s where the police have their jurisdiction, but the sheriff still technically has jurisdiction in town, they just let the police boys mess around with that non sense. But police only have jurisdiction in just their town or city. It’s weird.