Police around the US have been selling guns illegally for years

how many of those states are dem run

In this paper, we analyze nearly a quarter million officers,2 covering 98 of America’s 100 largest local agencies, and representing over one third of all local law enforcement nationwide, to examine the distribution and consequences of officers’ partisan affiliations.

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Using our newly assembled data, we first demonstrate that relative to civilians in their jurisdictions, police officers are not only more likely to affiliate with the Republican Party, they also have higher household income, vote more often, and are more likely to be White.