Re: CSI: Horatio - whose arm was that, anyway?

Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <atropos-1FEF05.19322805042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-6581AB.14261005042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In article <atropos-57A7A0.16564705042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-798A93.11140605042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> In article <atropos-7082F1.11155905042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-271747.07084605042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>  Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> In article <47F75A02.D5ECB9D@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>  David B <bothecat3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>  CSI Miami is a cheesy cop show.
>>>>>>> Only if you consider Horatio Caine a cheesy cop!
>>>>>> Or any kind of cop at all, really...
>>>>> Which brings us back to the classic 'which of these people
>>>>> are cops at all' thread.
>>>>> Horatio seems to have been a cop before he was a CSI,
>>>>> but he now corrects people that call him a cop, even
>>>>> though he has the rank of LT. Although doesn't he identify
>>>>> himself as Miami-Dade PD? Which should make him a county cop?
>>>> No, Miami-Dade is one of those hybrid departments that covers
>>>> both the city and the county. Basically, the city of Miami
>>>> encomp***** every square inch of Dade County, so it would be
>>>> silly to have a city police department and a county sheriff,
>>>> since they'd have identical jurisdictions.
>>> The sad thing is, I have no idea if you're being sarcastic or not.  :\
>> No, it's really true. New York is the same way. There's no New York 
>> County Sheriff because the city of New York encomp***** the entire 
>> county, so NYPD is the only local police force (well, there's the NY-NJ

>> ****t Authority, also, but that's a whole other issue).
> 
Sure they do. See web site at http://www.usacops.com/ny/s10017/index.html
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It probably varies from state to state. Some places, when the city takes 
in the whole county, they still have a sheriff, but all he does is run 
the jail and supply officers for bailiff and warrant serving duty. 
(IIRC, San Francisco is like that, and I know that Indianapolis still 
has a Sheriff, even though they have had county metro government for 
decades.)

Note that in most states, Sheriff is a STATE office, even though it only 
covers the one county, and is not under control of the city or county 
government, even though the county usually supplies most of the budget. 
  Only people Sheriff answers to are the state AG and the governor. (And 
in some places, the only one that can arrest the sheriff is the 
coroner.)  The job duties go back to Old England, when the ****re of the 
Rief (sp?) was the king's local rep, and provided a check on any 
mischief the local lords and constables may get up to. In Louisiana, 
they are still involved in tax collection.

Standard disclaimer- IANAL, but the above is still mostly correct.

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