JayUtah
Penultimate Amazing
Sure, why not. As I said previously, if corrections officers are laughing at how untrained you are, you're pretty untrained. In rural areas, sheriffs are the de facto local law enforcement, since every square foot of canonical American territory lies within a county and therefore within the jurisdiction of some county sheriff. In metropolitan areas such as mine, sheriffs (and their deputies) are typically relegated to acting as enforcement officers for court orders and as the operators of the county jail. So the metro sheriffs in Minneapolis are mostly jail guards and process servers.So equally well trained for every environment from peaceful urban protests to the surface* of Jupiter
*Yes
There is a hierarchy of prestige, qualification, and training in American armed peace services. So if you want to be an armed peace officer in the United States, your most prestigious services will be the national ones: U.S Marshals, Secret Service, and the FBI. Then you have local law enforcement such as city police, who are seen as the front line of crime prevention and domestic peacekeeping. Ironically slightly below that are typically "state troopers." That is, local police look down on state police who generally just guard state facilities like the capitol buildings and enforce traffic laws on the highways outside major cities. They are rarely tasked with face-to-face arrests or investigations. This is markedly separate from state criminal investigation bureaus, which may be armed but are almost never uniformed.
At the bottom of the totem pole you have corrections officers—the people whose main or only job is to guard prisons and jails. I say this because they are usually people who failed to qualify for the more prestigious services, often for temperament reasons. It's not a glamorous job, so it's hard to recruit people to do it. Hence the standards are lower and the training requirements are lower. Therefore it tends to be a haven for people who want to brutalize a disfavored, disempowered, and captive population and have a better chance of getting away with it. So when these people look at you and say you're doing "bush-league policing," that's a pretty stinging rebuke. That's where we find ICE.
This is a broad-strokes generalization. I happen to know both our county sheriff and our relatively new chief of police, and they are doing great jobs. Our sheriff is especially well respected. For a female non-Caucasian to earn that kind of respect in this particular valley says a lot about her integrity and competence. So don't come at me too much. I just want to put the Minneapolis sheriff's comments in a context as they would be seen from inside law enforcement.
I'm sure there's a single word in German that means all that.
