sheriff
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“The sheriff evacuated 60,000 people out of a portion of Spokane in a matter of two hours without injury or accident,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nanos, who is serving a second term as elected sheriff, approved broad access to his department during the show’s four months of production last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The board later voted not to remove him but Supervisor Rex Scott said the sheriff needed to repair a lack of trust in his leadership.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
He points to a reduction in crime for the county during his term and says he brought stability after a series of one-term sheriffs since 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Security at Mar-a-Lago is extremely tight, with an outer cordon of local Palm Beach sheriffs and an inner one maintained by the Secret Service.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
In the immediate term, America needs the equivalent of those retired cops and off-duty sheriffs from 1976—principled leaders who step up as a stopgap for the most urgent challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
As one of the sheriffs on the tour said to me, “Generally, autopsies don’t lie.”
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
But the Joneses knew there were more sheriffs lurking in towns throughout Illinois and across the northern states.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
