Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:02 pm
I have to admit with the current polarization of American politics, I'd be afraid of a system in which all local (county/city) police, fire, and judicial employees were State appointees sitting locally rather than being responsible either to the voters or elected officials of the local city/county.
Like local elected prosecutors being removed by the Florida government.
In Michigan, some of the state university boards are elected and others are appointed by the gov.
Also, law enforcement jurisdiction tends to be overlapping in places. So, in a place like Isabella County, Michigan which is home to that other school (Central Michigan University) and the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, you have:
1. Isabella County Sheriff
2. Michigan State Police
3. Mt. Pleasant Public Safety
4. Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police (federal officers who are also deputized by the county sheriff to assist off of trust land partly because the reservation is not contiguous.
5. Central Michigan University Police. I think they may be deputized by the Michigan State Police as well. My university's police were deputized by the county sheriff.
I don't know if the small towns still have a local police force.
Up where I used to live we had the county sheriff, state police, tribal police, and the National Park Service Police and the national lakeshore was not contiguous so I don't know where the rangers had jurisdiction. IIRC, the tribal police were also with the various sheriff departments (their trust land was in more than one county and a major road going through the middle of the trust land).
Even here, besides local, county, and state, there is also the Naval Station Great Lakes which may have some jurisdiction on the major public roads that are surrounded by the base, though I am not entirely sure. I make sure not to speed around them anyway. No need to find out.