As I understand it, judges typically defer to law enforcement. Anyway, replacing a leader would have very little impact on the laws, practices, training, or political mandate. Might just make for an unusual headline.
In my daydream, elected Sheriffs don't want to be dumped out of office - so they ignore crap-quality Intel, don't hire deputies based on phrenology, double-check the paperwork before releasing prisoners, ...
Right? In my reality, my County Sheriff has on multiple occasions hired deputies who had either resigned in lieu of termination for various problems, and on a couple of occasions, actually terminated. During COVID he denied vaccines to even immunocompromised individuals, but worse (yes, I know that masks are not "100% effective"), forbade the use of masks in his (overcrowded, typically 3 people in 2 person cells, one sleeping on a mattress on the floor, and smaller isolation cells designed for 1, often having 2 or even 3 inmates) county jails, with all the predictable results.
And in the wake of BLM, when Mayors and PD Chiefs were actually doing a fairly good job of trying to community build and form relationships, got on his bullhorn at protests and said that any Sheriff's Deputy who attempted to do so would be subject to disciplinary action and that he was going to be enforcing "zero tolerance" for any protest.
