About the ‘Anglo-American Heritage of Law Enforcement’
Jeff Sessions is right about the ‘heritage” of U.S. sheriffs, in more ways than one.
by Robin Washington
Feb 13, 2018
2 minutes
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was technically correct when he lauded the office of sheriff as “a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement” before a gathering of those officeholders on Monday. Assuming he was speaking etymologically, the word can be traced to the Old English , a combination of scir or shire, and , for reeve or chief, as the “representative of royal authority in a shire”
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