The gang was called the Shamrocks, and David Caruso played their leader, Tommy Mann.
Didn’t know it was Caruso. That makes it even funnier.
Yeah. The humor is
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HSB was a great show. It was set in an unnamed Midwestern city, and there were occasional references to Pittsburgh landmarks, as noted above, but some exterior scenes were filmed in both LA and Chicago. I remember once clearly seeing some US interstate highway signs on a pole in a street scene. My dad and I got out the road atlas, and the only place those particular highways came together was Chicago.
ISTR back in the Eighties that off-duty NYPD cops were required to have their badges and guns with them at all times, and were expected to intervene if a felony was committed in their presence. Don’t know if that’s still so, or if it is/was a matter of departmental policy or state law.
As to Caruso and CSI: Miami: - YouTube
The officers on HSB had varying levels of ethics. Renko was at a different level from [del]Sipowicz[/del], [del]Buntz[/del], Benedetto.
There is an exception for self defense/defense of others.
But who the hell loses their handcuffs? You don’t really think that happens, do you?
Dear Penthouse,
Wait?! You told them to drive drunk?
LOL.
Except after 37+ years and 2 separate careers in law enforcement in a major metropolitan area I could tell you stories that even Larry Flynt wouldn’t publish.
And only a small percentage of it involves cops (except for the 911 calls).
You would not fucking believe what some of your neighbors are involved it.
I’m not kidding.
You would have to have been there to understand. It was years ago, they were all cops, they were all anabolic steroid muscle men, and the alternative would have been continued drinking, fighting, chasing off the other customers, then driving home.
I don’t know. Left them at the stripper’s house? 
Aren’t almost all police actions in self defense/defense of others?
Officer Renko arresting a drug user wouldn’t be an action in defense of others.
That’s why I said “almost all”
I’m not trying to make trouble, just trying to understand that policy. If a cop was off-duty, and forgot to bring a spare magazine, he/she couldn’t arrest someone selling 10 kilos of Colombian Bam-Bam right in front of him/her? It just sounds strange to me.
Back in the 80’s, (about the same time Hill StreetBlues was on TV) I was involved with a sports club. A new guy joined us, who was a cop.
The club members did a lot of partying together, and naturally asked the new guy to come along. He refused, because in his words “I’m a cop” --how are you going to have fun if I’m there? I’d have to put a stop to it."
Heck of nice guy, actually. I don’t know what he would have done, but he always told us to wait till he went home after the sports, before the rest of us started having fun.
Sure , it does. Maybe police officers don’t , but the peace officers at my agency lose theirs all the time. (Even though they are required to have them on duty) It’s understandable when they get mixed up because more than one officer is involved* - but sometimes they are actually lost.
- I cuff someone and another officer end up lodging him at the jail and gives me the wrong cuffs back.
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Whether or not they can, it’s not legally self defense or defense or others. And I’d suggest they’d want to call it in and get some backup in that situation.
I know of Federal Agents that lose their guns, ballistic vests, computers, you name it. Handcuffs didn’t see that much of a stretch to me.
Hey, I didn’t write the policy. Doesn’t really affect me anyway as I almost never take action off duty. I do not see the advantage to it and a lot of the guys that do I’ve seen get tripped up by one thing or another.
Now keep moving, there’s nothing to see here.