Consider Downtown Madison. Within blocks of one another are the city police department, the county sheriff’s office, the Capitol police and UW-Madison police. There’s a Secret Service office, U.S. marshals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and, over on the West Side, the FBI. In addition, Madison’s many surrounding towns and suburbs have forces of their own.
If you drive down the Beltline, you never know which police agency might pull you over.