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Sundown counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While sundown laws became de jure illegal following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
The Orange County, California, sheriff's office, for instance, did not adopt a uniform until 1938. [5] By the early 20th century, the style and form of American police uniforms had essentially settled into its modern pattern of collared shirts, neckties, slacks and military-style jackets with open collars, all worn with peaked hats.
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Sheboygan at one time was thought to have sundown laws that were prevalent in the 1880s to 1960s.
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The Supreme Court declined to revive a controversial Missouri law on Friday that prohibits local law enforcement from helping federal officials enforce federal gun regulations.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) is the highway patrol agency for Missouri and has jurisdiction all across the state. It is a division of the Missouri Department of Public Safety . Colonel Michael A. Turner has been serving as the 25th superintendent since January 30, 2025.
New Year's Day brings new laws in both Missouri and Kansas.