lawman

When a lawman confirms to Cal the rumor that Cathy, known by then as the nearby town’s madam, Kate, shot his father, Cal muses, “He must have done something to hurt her.”

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Four days before he was shot while sitting in a patrol car outside the station, the 30-year-old lawman had proposed to his longtime girlfriend, who coworkers said he was madly in love with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Odenkirk plays a lawman whose chief virtue is not getting involved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Sheriff Pusser inspired thousands to enter into law enforcement,” Sweat told me, gesturing to a Pusser admirer turned lawman who had just visited his shop to talk Pusser.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025

Agent Wren made his own inroads, attending tribal gatherings and gleaning information from Osage who might not otherwise talk to a white lawman.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

For nearly a decade, four small-town Louisiana lawmen and a Subway shop owner manufactured phony crime reports to help foreign nationals stay in the U.S., federal prosecutors say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

He is among a field of current and former lawmen who have criticized Luna’s time in office as ineffective, uninspiring and opaque.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

And in this scene, the lawmen converge to arrest one person they believe they can get information from, Ernest Burkhart, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

The federal investigation into Suffolk County’s top lawmen spanned years during the Gilgo Beach case, a period during which both Burke and Spota had spurned help from the FBI.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

This was a major departure from traditional policing, where lawmen were typically products of their own communities.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann