Doesn’t matter. You would be selected at random among all eligible residents.
True. I’d just be astonished that they’d get me into the rolls that fast.
I think the standard model is something like this.
In any given county you have four levels of government that may be interacting.
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Municipal governments - Depending on the county there can be several municipalities or only one.
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County Government - This is fairly self-explanatory, this is the overall government that governs the entire county. There is usually an elected executive office that goes with county government, the name of the office varies widely from place to place.
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State Government - Also self explanatory.
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Federal Government - Also self explanatory.
In any given county you could have these, or more law enforcement agencies:
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Municipal - Any city large enough to need/hire it’s own police force will have one, and this police force is responsible for the jurisdiction that corresponds to the municipality in question.
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County - Most every county has some form of police force. In counties that have many rural/non-municipal ares, or areas without a municipal police force, the County Sheriff’s department will typically be responsible for all law enforcement in the area.
In many cases the Sheriff’s department is technically given jurisdiction over an entire county, which would include and override the jurisdiction of municipalities. But in these cases the Sheriff’s department will often tend to avoid increasing its workload and let the municipals work it out themselves.
Sometimes there will be two county police forces, one might be called the XX County Police Department and they will be responsible for regular police duties while the other may be the XX County Sheriff’s Department and they may just be responsible for things like criminal transportation, detainment et cetra.
- State - Every state has a statewide police force. Typically this police force tends to concern itself with law enforcement in any areas where the locals might need more help, or areas of high traffic like interstate roads.
Many of these state police will often do most of their work on the highways writing tickets.
In some states, though, there is a specific police force called the Highway Patrol and they exclusively deal with Highway matters while the State police do other things.
An example of how the State police might be used. At a college football game there are always state police. Often times the police in the local city won’t be able to handle the extra security needs, so state police come in to help out at the stadium.
Other times the resources of a larger police unit like the state police may be needed.
And sometimes crimes occur in which the crime is committed all over the state, and in this case the state police have to deal with that just like it is their original jurisdiction.
- Federal - The FBI has field offices all over the country, and they enforce federal law in those areas.
The U.S. Marshall’s service also has similar offices and they deal with protection, fugitive recovery and et cetra in those areas.
All of this becomes confused because every municipality, state, and county has different rules and the system may be set up differently.
Often times in large cities the municipality has grown to cover the entire county, and sometimes several entire counties. In these cases it is often seen as prudent to combine the municipal and county governments, I believe New York City has done this and many other large cities have. This basically eliminates the need for overlapping municipal and county police agencies.
I’m a little late to the party here, but your thread reminded me of this thread from earlier this year. Could it be something like that?
Too bad you missed the call. Expect a knock on the door about 3:00 AM.
Don’t even expect a knock. They’ll just storm in. Happens all the time in this country.