As with his idol, Donald Trump, as more documents are handed over because of ACLU Freedom of Information requests, it is becoming more obvious that the sheriff of Bristol County Massachusetts, Thomas Hodgson, has been quietly breaking the law in his effort to support the white supremacist organizations with which he is connected and curry favor with the White House.

Initially it was discovered that two years ago he reported the church he attends on Sundays to Stephen Miller, Trump’s anti-immigrant and white supremacist architect of his immigration policies, without anyone’s knowledge, because the church had made pamphlets available in various languages informing all immigrants, documented or otherwise, of their legal rights if confronted by ICE.

Beyond the actual reporting, what was more frightening was that sheriff included in that email that he intended to investigate if this was a single incident, or if it was something being done in any number of churches in the county that employs him, and that he would also report any other places, community centers, immigration support organizations, and places of business that might have such information available.

The dates on this email would lead any thinking person to believe that he most likely has secretly been doing this for at least the two years from his promise to do so to the time the email was revealed.

Unlike in many states west of the Mississippi where there are large swaths  of unincorporated land patrolled by county sheriff departments, in Massachusetts, where all the land, with the exception of state and federal parks, belong to cities, towns, and villages, with no unincorporated lands, the job of the county sheriffs and their departments is to run the county jails.

State police patrol, pursue, and apprehend suspects state-wide, with most people only dealing with them if pulled over on a state highway for a traffic violation. Local law enforcement does the same within the borders of their municipalities, their legal jurisdictions that ends at the town line. If during a pursuit the suspect heads to a town line, those in pursuit must either call ahead to the next town to take over the pursuit, something that could create a less than effective chain of such requests, or simply call for the state police who can cross town lines automatically.

County sheriff departments neither patrol, pursue, nor apprehend.

Local and state law enforcement are active participants in law enforcement because they pursue and apprehend, while county sheriff department are passive as they receive those pursued and apprehended by them.

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The county sheriff’s job is to run the county jails and get inmates to and from the jails to the courts, and to house and care for inmates, the majority of whom may have been arrested, but have yet to have their day court.

While state prisons house convicted criminals, more than 50% of those in county jails are innocent until proven guilty, their arrest not being a conviction.

Rather than the stereotype of sheriffs of the wild west who are a macho presence, in Massachusetts, the position of the county sheriff is an administrative one lacking the glamour of cowboy hats and John Wayne machismo.

There is no need for a county sheriff to have law enforcement experience because of this, and the major requirements for being a sheriff is to be a resident of the state, over 21, with at least a high school diploma.

Considering that more and more people being incarcerated struggle with drug addiction and mental illness, the best sheriff would be someone with expertise in those areas.

What should alarm residents of the county is another email sent to Stephen Miller prior to the one about the church was the one in which he complained about local law enforcement not being required to perform the work of the federal ICE agency in which he revealed,

“My undercover units are poised and ready for whatever we can do to identify and expedite the arrest and removal of criminal illegal alien. Our discussion regarding a hotline is clearly relevant.”

Not only does he reveal a unit that no one knew about and which is not part of his job, but also that he wants a direct line to Stephen Miller to report residents of the county who not only do not know there is a secret county surveillance unit, but that they might be a target of it without their knowledge while they are being reported.

Until this email was discovered, his original two year old promise to investigate, seemed to just be a bit of puffery, but now that we know there has been a secret surveillance unit, things have taken on a darker and more serious tone.

We have seen this sort of thing in fascist countries, and we have seen where it ends up.

Is Bristol County alone in this, or is this happening in the shadows all over the country?