Law-Enforcement Officers

• The police are responsible for maintaining public trust and order and managing threats to safety such as terrorism and gangs. They are also charged with reducing drug activities in the community. Most of the funding for the precincts comes from the cities they support.
  
  

Prosecutors and Public Defenders

• Prosecutors and public defenders are funded by counties. This part of the system includes the Indigent Defense Commissions and Legal Aid. The responsibility of this part of the system is to establish guilt or innocence as defined under the current laws of the particular locality.
  
  

Court Systems

• This part of the system is split between trial courts, which are funded by counties, and appellate courts, which are state-funded. Some localities have federal courts funded by the federal government that are separate from the state courts.
  
  

Corrections Department

• The corrections department is the part of the system that handles punishment, supervision and rehabilitation of convicted offenders. Its funding comes from the cities and counties it supports. Federal prisons are funded by the federal government.