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).

PS: There were multiple police depts in NYC, Housing & Transit, in 
addition to the NYPD; but they were merged into one big force in 1995. 
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) still has its own Police Dept.

http://www.mta.info/mta/employment/mtapd-info.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Trans****tation_Authority_Police

Like the PANYNJ, their jurisdiction is not limited to the 5 counties 
which make up NYC.