[Troy Tempest]

Hi Tom, what's the deal with electing your sherrif though? We don't elect any police or judges, they're all state government employees, so why isn't that the case over there? Should the local judge or sherrif be the result of a popularity contest? Couldn't that leave the prospect of corruption open, in a small town maybe, where one guy, and I use this analogy very loosely, like Boss Hogg, might be the big man in town, wouldn't someone like that have a lot of power that wouldn't be available to him if the positions of influence, like sherrifs and judges were state employees and thus out of local control or interference through money and or power? You have state police anyway don't you, so why don't they make all police in the state, state police?