I’d love to see cops start enforcing the no-right-on-red signs, especially when drivers cut off pedestrians to do it. But half the time they’ve got blue line or other pseudo fascist stickers all over their gigantic trucks when they do it, so I’m not holding my breath.

Local politics. Sherrif is usually an elected position by the public directly or by an elected body. Sherrifs tend to have pretty strong sway in the culture of the departments.