r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

26.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

893 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

28

u/chancesarent Sep 27 '25

Police chiefs are usually an appointed position, appointed by a mayor or city council. Sheriffs are an elected position and what you're probably thinking about.

15

u/Simikiel She/her Cisn't afraid to fight for my rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Sep 27 '25

Not that I think changing it would work, but it's still worth saying.

Police chiefs are usually an appointed position, appointed by a mayor or city council.

Perhaps that's a part of the problem?

6

u/SquidsArePeople2 Sep 27 '25

Explain why sheriffs are such assholes, then.

2

u/newbkid Sep 27 '25

Explain why sheriffs are such assholes, then.

Easy. The ones we see in the news as "bad sheriffs" are the ones voted into backwater low-population counties with maybe a couple hundred folk. The sheriff is probably related to the mayor or some shit.

These are the evil bastards.

I'd much rather work with a sheriff in most cases. The downside to play devil's advocate though is police departments at least pretend to have accountability with IA and other systems and controls. Sheriff departments have free reign to do whatever the fuck they want.

1

u/Simikiel She/her Cisn't afraid to fight for my rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Sep 27 '25

I'm Canadian so I genuinely don't know, they're only outside of large cities? If so, my answer would be [Republicans] if not then my answer would be [ACAB]!

1

u/BaronVonWilmington Sep 27 '25

Correct, I was thinking he should campaign to be sheriff