Constitutional Sheriffs: Inside the Far-Right Movement That’s Above the Law
“CSPOA membership and the influences of its ideas have spread widely since 2020, although the numbers are hard to quantify. In 2022, Political Research Associates, a nonprofit that tracks extremist groups, estimated the number of CSPOA-aligned sheriffs to be around 400. Mack told me that he thought it was now closer to 800, which seems like a gross overestimation to me. Two political scientists surveyed 500 sheriffs and found that around a quarter of them expressed positive attitudes about the CSPOA. And it’s certain that around 50 sheriffs out of 254 in Texas attended CSPOA training sessions, which in the Lone Star State once counted as continuing education.”