"Then why doesn't Gov. Bush tell them "You work for me"
IF, and I doubt it, this story is true then you should know that:
Local police work for the city. The Sheriff's department answers only to the county. The governor cannot fire any of them. Law enforcement types are very territorial and clanish. The city police usually don't like the Sheriff's deputies. Both of these don't like State law enforcement types. They all resent the FBI and other federal law enforcement types, who incidentally fight amoung themselves (remember the intell. breakdown on 9-11). They are like a bunch of male dogs pissing on trees to mark their territory.
IF this story is true, it is a sad thing that a woman dies because of a turf war between junenile acting law enforcement at the lowest levels. Grow of children!
True, but not only does the Govenor have the State Police at his disposal, he also has the National Guard. Don't tell me he doesn't have enough authority to make a squad of county deputies back down and relinquish their side arms if they prove insubordinate. Besides which, are you suggesting that the county executive holds more authority than the chief executive of the state in which they reside? The governor does have authority over those deputies in his state, period. It doesn't matter whether he hired them or pays them. That's just absurd. That's like saying the President of the United States does not have authority over the National Guard from each of the fifty states because he does not hire them or pay them. A couple of people have put forth this argument and it is dead wrong.
Not entirely true. A governor can suspend a sheriff who is suspected of illegal or improper activity and appoint a temporary replacement until the allegations have been investigated.
When I lived in FL a governor did suspend a sheriff who was ultimately indicted and prosecuted. I don't remember which governor or which sheriff, but I do remember that it happened. Probably sometime in the 1980s, but I'm not at all sure.