This is probably anther reason why we need the police to be placed UNDER the authority of the elected Sheriff.
I don’t want unelected bureaucrats enforcing un-constitutional laws without the consent of the local governed.
Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden aut to have the authority to fire the dissident police Chief.
Legislators are NOT empowered by the people to simply make whatever oppressive law they like. This is why we have an elected Sheriff in the first place, one of our last(not our last) practical checks on their unauthorized power.
After the Sheriff there is the judiciary. The clear intent of our system was to protect the rights of the people, as the primary and most pressing of concerns! The “safety of the community” in the judgment of our “leader” has always been one of careful suspicion and caution.
Liberty must be protected with a vigilant eye! For it is better to have no law and rely upon our own self-defensive capability to provide for our security then to be made subjects to an unlimited and otherwise uncontrollable tyrant.
God Bless County Sheriff James Alderden and his patriotism!
I can agree with that. In the past few decades, especially with asset forfeiture laws in place, local potentates (i.e. mayors, city councils, etc.) view municipal police as their praetorian guard and a source of revenue. Ostensibly police chiefs answer to elected officials, but with unions in place, they tend to be very unresponsive to the local populace. Elected sheriffs answer directly to their voters in a referendum on their performance every few years.