# Put together the ultimate TV law enforcement team!

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**Created:** [July 19, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-together-the-ultimate-tv-law-enforcement-team/313087 "2005-07-19T02:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-together-the-ultimate-tv-law-enforcement-team/313087/21 "2005-07-20T20:45:47Z")

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Investigating officers: Constable Benton Fraser and Shaft (the newer Shaft, not his Uncle, who I don’t know much about) Fraser is a natural-born tracker (even comes with his own wolf) and Shaft is one bad mutha… but I digress.

Supervising cop: Odo, from Deep Space Nine. He kept a tight space station. Alien invasions, Founder Spies, and Quark’s money-making schemes aside.

CSIs: Either Cain or Grissom from the CSIs, depending on whether or not a child’s parents were killed (Cain seems like more of the guy you need if a kid was wronged somehow) Lt. Commander Data with his Sherlock Holmes hat, and Monk.

Coroner: Quincy, obviously.

District Attourney: Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden. He’s just that cool.

Prosecuting Attournies: McCoy from Law and Order and Colonel MacKenzie from JAG (since McCoy does his best work if he has a hot female lawyer helping him, and because Mac can both kick-ass in a firefight and can speak Farsi. That’s gotta come in handy sometime.)

I’d pick Harmon Rabb, except his undeniable skills as a fighter pilot are somewhat limited in scope of application in a city courtroom.

Bonus all-star TV Defense attourney team: Matlock, Captain Picard, and Keanu Reeves from Devil’s Advocate (What? That movie’s been on TV a few times! 😃 )

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-together-the-ultimate-tv-law-enforcement-team/313087/22 "2005-07-20T22:10:59Z")

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Most of these have been picked already, but here goes:

Investigating Cops: Columbo and Sipowitz

CSI: Sherlock Holmes from the PBS series, Adrian Monk, and Robert Goren.

Commanding Officer: Lt. Castillo

Special investigator (I know it’s not in the OP, but I can’t resist.): Johnny Smith from the Dead Zone.

Coroner: The sarcastic older red-headed woman from L&O. Don’t know her name or the actor who plays her.

District Attorney: Adam Schiff.

ADA’s: Jack McCoy and, what the hell, The DA from the Rockford files just to make the prosecutors not all be L&O people. (What was her name again? Beth Davenport?)

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-together-the-ultimate-tv-law-enforcement-team/313087/23 "2005-07-20T22:36:01Z")

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**Investigating police**

Inspector Sledge Hammer  
Dirty Harry

**Police superior officer**

Captain Trunk (with two gun-crazy officers, he’ll probably have a heart attack/stroke before the first commercial break…)

**Crime scene investigators** (up to three, plus one coroner)

Dana Sculley  
Fox Mulder  
Dr. Laurel Weaver (Coroner from MIB)

**Prosecuting attornies** (up to two)  
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law  
Reducto

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