Talk:Police ranks of the United States

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MILHIST tag

I've removed the MILHIST tag because MILHIST does not cover civilian law enforcement and there was no notable military element to the article.Monstrelet (talk) 17:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History?

Shouldn't there be an explanation as to why there are so many different ranks structures in place throughout the USA?it of note, that each state seems to do its own thing. Only Federal bureaus have a consistent rank structure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.158.250.195 (talk) 11:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Simply put, because there is no uniform authority for police departments. Each local police department is autonomous, and set up by local governments. There is no "police ranks of the United States". There's the ranks of the NYPD, the LAPD, the Chicago PD, and all the way down to the least populous area in the country, and none of them have anything to do with each other in rank structure. The commonalities of titles (which really vary greatly in detail) are the result of their being common military ranks in the English-speaking world, and nothing more. The article is a load of WP:SYNTH, and should be deleted as WP:OR.oknazevad (talk) 13:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Police corporal?

Should Police corporal be merged into this page?--Robert Treat (talk) 03:45, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please fix page structure (cannot understand or read information)

Is it possible to have this page re-written in such a way whereas each significant set of information is noticeable? I am having a real hard time trying to read and get a grasp of what this article is talking about? 110.175.32.32 (talk) 23:28, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Investigator

There should be a link to Investigator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation#Rank_structure

Kenixkil (talk) 11:54, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]