Why do some sheriff’s and marshal’s badges have five points or six points?

Why do some sheriff’s and marshal’s badges have five points or six points? Pam Stockton Mountain Home, Arkansas Peace officers, then and now, can design their own badges. In frontier towns, they often made badges out of materials at hand that ranged from silver coins to lids off tin cans, hence “tin star.” Although the five-pointed star is the most common of these designs, some agencies had six-, seven-, eight- or nine-point stars for badges. Historically, a five-pointed star supp