>Police Chiefs are usually in urban areas and appointed - sheriffs are usually responsible for more rural areas and are elected officials. Police chiefs seems to be for gun control, whereas the sheriffs are not. Lot of this has come to the attention of the news media over the weekend.

Not that simple in Pennsylvania. Police Chiefs run the police department, but even in urban areas, the sheriff runs things like moving prisoners around (to get them to trial and so forth). That is, we have both.

Tamar