That is a pretty low ratio nationwide.
I do not feel comforted.
It is low indeed. We need to lobby our Sheriff’s to get on the right side of this. If it’s any comfort, the list is growing quickly.
There are 3,033 organized county or county-equivalent governments in the United States according to 2007 Census of Governments.[2]
[2] http://www.census.gov/govs/cog/GovOrgTab03ss.html
Nothing to feel good about if only 9% of Sheriffs aren’t on board.
I feel angry. Our Republican group in Brazoria County, Texas, spent a lot of time, money and energy on our Sheriff’s re-election and his name is not on the list. He’s going to have some explaining to do to a bunch of folks tomorrow.
Same here, FRiend. A paltry 5 county sheriffs in Florida, and I read yesterday that the Florida Highway Patrol will start doing "maintenance inspections" on major highways in and out of the Tampa Bay area.
This is death by a thousand cuts or boiling the frog slowly. They are testing the public's tolerance of travel suppression by police. It's only a matter of time before they turn entire neighborhoods or even counties into patrolled ghettos.
My hope for this nation is diminishing quickly.
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Exactly, and it’s a low enough number that hte government does NOT fear FORCING them to comply- the number of towns and cities and states refusign to comply shoudl be large enough that the governemnt is FORCED to back down- but given hte extremely low numbers of ‘sherrifs’ resisting, you can bet that when push comes to shove, MOST of them will back down because they are NOT gettign enough support from Americans-
Not too long ago the government tried forcing soem assinien mandate down America’s throat, and a couple of states stood together and told the govenrment ‘Not on our watch you aint pullin that crap” and the govenrment was forced to back down- but now that we are faced with losing our constituional rights, NO state is standign up and saying “Nope- not on our watch’?