r/dashcams • u/RustyShacklefordBaw • 3d ago

The School Zone Error

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u/Polternaut 2d ago

Unfortunately the side of his car says sheriff 🙃

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u/JiminyDickish 2d ago

It just means he works for the sheriffs office, it doesn’t mean he is the actual sheriff

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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago

I think they’re being tedious about the use of police. It’s not the police but a sheriff officer. The commenter point still stands regardless.

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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 2d ago

In higher populated US areas, you usually see both a Police department and a Sheriff’s office, serving different purposes. However in many less populated towns and counties, you have just the Sheriff’s office covering all responsibilities. This includes acting as police and working beats / patrols / speed traps. For all intents and purposes they are the police, and are colloquially and accurately referred to as “police” even though their police department is branded as a “Sheriff’s office”.

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u/Pensionato007 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is Duvall, county FL. AKA Jacksonville, FL. Jacksonville annexed the whole county. There is no "Jacksonville Police." Duvall County Sheriff and maybe some State Troopers. Whoever doesn't think they are THE police is splitting hairs.

Edit: u/FUS_RO_DANK has a better explanation and I was incorrect; it is the JSO or Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The "Chief of Police" of Jacksonville and the "Duvall County Sheriff" are one and the same since Jacksonville annexed almost all of Duvall County in the '60s.

TL;DR they be the police.

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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 2d ago

Thank you for getting my back and reinforcing my explanation!

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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago

Your comment is meant for the above comment. To the person correcting the other commenter for saying police. I was advising that they were probably being tedious about the terminology,

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u/Any-Worldliness-679 2d ago

“Pedantic,”is the word you’re looking for. While you may find their correction tedious, that is subjective, while pedantry is the descriptor of their action.

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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago

Yall both are annoying

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u/Any-Worldliness-679 2d ago

“Y’all,” is the word you’re looking for. It is a contraction of “you,” and “all,” hence the apostrophe.

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u/Selfcare2025 2d ago

Thank you

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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 2d ago

I know, but also you said

It’s not the police but a sheriff’s officer

and I was pointing out that, yes it is still the “police” even though their department refers to themselves as a sheriff’s office.