National Sheriff’s Alliance recommends disbanding all city Police Departments.

Not a week goes by without a story of out of control police officers doing something horrible to a violate some poor civilian’s rights. Yet at the same time it seems new stories about out of control sheriff deputies are rare. Given this trend along with other issues dealing with city police the National Sheriff’s Alliance is calling for the closing of all city police departments.

Most people do not realize this but the office of the Sheriff is part of the Constitution in each state. The Sheriffs Department is not a branch of county government. Sheriffs are an independent office that exercises the public trust, based on the knowledge that the public can vote them out of office.

So the National Sheriff’s Alliance is calling to abolish local police departments. As the spokesperson for the alliance said, “this nation needs to get back to the guiding principles of the Constitution, both the Federal and State level Constitutions. The Sheriff is granted power by the Authority of the office as outlined in the State Constitution. The people affirm that authority by voting for the person they think best to lead that office.”

One Sheriff speaking off the record told us this. “Face it, city police are basically just revenue generation for cities. How many small towns do you know of that don’t do any real police work, just sit running traffic all day to get ticket revenue? Most of the cities in my county can’t process a simple burglary scene, so they call for deputies to do their police work for them.”

The Alliance feels that getting Law Enforcement back to its roots is needed. “The distrust of Law Enforcement needs to stop. This nation needs Andy Griffin not all the guys acting like Rodney Farva we got. The NYPD was not founded till 1845, a full sixty-nine years after this country was founded.”

When asked about all the jobs lost the Alliance admits that many police officers will be hired onto the Sheriff’s department. But notes that Sheriffs will be picky as to whom they will and will not add on to meet increased caseload for the Sheriff Department.

The next official meeting of the National Sheriff’s Alliance is in January 2014. At that time voting members will decide if they will continue to explore this idea.