I support what they are doing but in my lifetime I have seen a lot of corruption at the county, state & city level.
In fact I think if there is ever an honest investigation I think the average American would be astounded at the depth of political corruption from federal on down to city & county. In the state I grew up in there were a lot of corrupt county sheriffs, if wasn’t for the Fed’s coming in and busting up their little fiefdoms they would still be there.
In California, the Attorney General is superior to the Sheriffs. CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE
SEC. 13. Subject to the powers and duties of the Governor, the Attorney General shall be the chief law officer of the State. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to see that the laws of the State are uniformly and adequately enforced. The Attorney General shall have direct supervision over every district attorney and sheriff and over such other law enforcement officers as may be designated by law, in all matters pertaining to the duties of their respective offices, and may require any of said officers to make reports concerning the investigation, detection, prosecution, and punishment of crime in their respective jurisdictions as to the Attorney General may seem advisable. Whenever in the opinion of the Attorney General any law of the State is not being adequately
enforced in any county, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute any violations of law of which the superior court shall have jurisdiction, and in such cases the Attorney General shall have all the powers of a district attorney. When required by the public
interest or directed by the Governor, the Attorney General shall assist any district attorney in the discharge of the duties of that office.
We recently had a huge (about 1,000 people) rally here (Defend Rural America) where we had 7 Northern CA and S. Oregon Sheriffs speak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIrGFRMIryk People gave each a standing ovation. They are fed up of being hogtied and pushed to the wall by environmental regulations. The current catalst is the “travel management plan” to close hundreds of roads on the National Forest. I believe another 7 Sheriffs have now joined the CA group.
There is a similar movement among rural county supervisors and commissioners in the western states. They are in the process of forming a multi-state coalition.