After Katrina, we had some Florida Troopers in the area to help keep things real. I was putting up a sign at the end of the road to warn potential looters that we were an armed community...I had my .357 strapped on when a Florida Trooper came by. He looked at the sign, glanced at me, then touched the brim of his hat and drove off. Sheriffs can be useful or detrimental but their positions are often political enough to give one doubts about their loyalties - Mike Byrd in our area of MS demonstrates that you never know...
That trooper must have come from somewhere north of South Florida.
A couple years ago my house was broken into. I arrived shortly after the cops and told them there were guns in the house as they went in to clear it.
Short time later they asked me to check the guns. One cop asked me how many I had. Not in a friendly sort of way.