{"id":222414,"date":"2024-04-10T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=222414"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:00:32","slug":"do-elected-sheriffs-have-outsized-power-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=222414","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><i>Do Elected Sheriffs Have Outsized Power In The U.S.?<\/i><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222415\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-10-at-7.58.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-10-at-7.58.00-AM.png 544w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-10-at-7.58.00-AM-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/25\/895423249\/do-elected-sheriffs-have-outsized-power-in-the-u-s\"><strong>READ HERE<\/strong><\/a>: A new report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign &#8211; that&#8217;s a research organization &#8211; analyzed data on elected sheriffs around the country. And a report concluded that they have, quote, &#8220;unparalleled autonomy and tremendous power,&#8221; unquote, in the communities they police with very little accountability. Their findings are published in a new report called Confronting The Demographics Of Power: America&#8217;s Sheriffs.<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}