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* Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy The Kid (and wrote an awful book about it).
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* David Reichert (currently US congressman from Washington State, Reichert is best known for his pursuit and capture of the Green River Killer, and is still known in his local area simply as "The Sheriff")
* Johnny Behan, county sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona (including the town of Tombstone) during the [
* Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. [[Humiliation Conga|Makes his prisoners wear pink underwear, sleep in tents, and eat spoiled bologna sandwiches]], among other things. Viewed as either a [[Cowboy Cop]] or a [[Corrupt Hick]] depending on how you feel about prisoner's rights.
** Lending further weight to the latter characterization, Arpaio also has a well-documented history of using his deputies to harass and intimidate his political opponents and media critics.
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* The [[Love Interest]] in ''[[Practical Magic]]'' was a town marshal, and his devotion to the law turned out to be his own personal [[Applied Phlebotinum]].
* As Neptune, California, in ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' is an unincorporated town, there is a Sheriff's Department for the county, not a police force. Keith Mars is the ex-sheriff, ousted for political reasons.
** And he was replaced by Sheriff Lamb, who was pretty much just short of being a full-on manifestation of [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]. He's never shown taking bribes, but when a high school student reports that she's been raped, he [[Jerkass|laughs her out of his office]].
* Sheriff Jack Carter of ''[[Eureka]]'', though his job isn't so much to clean up the titular town, as to keep its [[Mad Scientist]] residents from turning it into a wasteland in the first place. This is a bit of [[Hollywood Law]] as Carter was appointed the Sheriff of Eureka by the federal government rather than elected by local residents, as is normal in the United States.
* Can't forget Little Bill from ''[[Unforgiven]]''.
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