I’m fairly new to living in the US and I see all three on the roads here. In the U.K. we only had police.
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Different zones of authority. Local police usually the city, they are the people in charge, outside city limits its either county or state who are in charge counties usually have a Sherriff for that area who is the head of that area, state covers anything not covered by the below. Feds only cover federal offences or things that affect cross state lines, hence crossing state lines is a big deal.
Big diff between uk and us, in uk laws in one county can be enforced in others by the police, in county vs state vs federal some laws do not apply at the other level, so like weed isn’t processed in California but could be as a federal crime, the state or local cops ain’t doing shit.
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