[BlackAdderess]

Basically you have some jurisdictions taxpayers paying for their own police departments as well as paying for the State police to police other jurisdictions that have chosen to close down their own police departments so the State can take care of it for them, with taxpayers state-wide footing the bill. So no thank you. Not a fan of defunding the police no matter who does it.

[Joe 6-pack]

In most Pennsylvania counties, Sheriff's Deputies don't have the full investigative powers as they generally do in other states, and in PA Sheriff's Offices tend to be oriented on running jails, prisoner transport, court security and fugitive arrests.

Unlike other states where the State Police are pretty much the state highway patrol, the PA State Police are typically the primary law enforcement in unincorporated areas that don't have their own municipal department.