Talk:List of district attorneys by county

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Sandra Doorley has been the district attorney of Monroe County, New York since January 2012. 74.69.11.229 (talk) 22:02, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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It's weird to me that there isn't any indication in the title that this is about the US. Shouldn't "US" be added to the title? - 87.58.119.203 (talk) 16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"District attorney" is a term used only in the US legal system, and in that country it is only at the county level, so there's no need to specify which country it's in, or what country's counties it's talking about. The word "attorney" itself is usually only used in the USA in the sense of a state official, and even outside of the state, it's still rare. In other countries like England or Hong Kong (which like the USA are influenced by English common law traditions) there "attorney" more so refers to a lawyer representing a client, as in someone with "power of attorney", but even still they'd usually refer to the lawyer with a more specific term like barrister or solicitor. The word "attorney" crops up on the prosecutorial side in Canada as a "Crown attorney", which might be the only other case in the world like that outside the US, but the term "district attorney" doesn't exist in Canada. In most other English speaking countries, the position analogous to the US "district attorney" is usually called something like a crown prosecutor, state prosecutor, public prosecutor, crown counsel, or crown advocate. And as far as I know there are no D.A.-like positions in non-Anglophone countries whose titles are typically or directly translated into English as "district attorney". VolatileChemical (talk) 13:00, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Links to specific Wiki pages for District Attorney offices in specific counties[edit]

In the lists of DA's per state, where it also listed the corresponding counties in the left-hand column, the name of the county only links to the article on the county itself. There are certain District Attorney offices for particular counties which have their own specific Wiki article already, for example all five counties in New York City have their own Wiki articles for the office of each of their 5 District Attorneys (as you can see in Template:Current prosecutors of New York City): Bronx County District Attorney, Brooklyn District Attorney', New York County District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney, and District Attorney of Richmond County (New York). But in our article here, in cases such as that for example, under List of district attorneys by county#New York in the County column on the left, all the links to each county links only to the Wiki article for that county in general. Would it not be more appropriate and convenient, for cases where there exists such a more specific and relevant article about the DA office for that exact county, that the link to Bronx for example, instead of leading to the Wiki article on the Bronx in general, instead linked to the page Bronx County District Attorney? And it's not just for New York City, since there's definitely a few others for counties that cover large and important cities. The List of district attorneys by county#Illinois section (which notes DA's are called State Attorneys) links Cook under "County" and Kimberly M. Foxx under "State Attorney", but doesn't anywhere link to the actual existing article for Cook County State's Attorney. Should these articles not be linked, when possible, under the listing for "County"? Or at the very least, maybe just add after the incumbent's name something like (see Cook County State's Attorney). I haven't looked through all 50 states but just a glance at the larger populated areas show there's also articles for Los Angeles County District Attorney, San Diego County District Attorney and San Francisco District Attorney's Office, none of which are linked under List of district attorneys by county#California. A cursory glance also reveals a Dallas County District Attorney article, not linked here under List of district attorneys by county#Texas, where the counties on the list are not linked at all to any page, oddly enough. Pennsylvania has pages for the Allegheny County District Attorney and District Attorney of Philadelphia, also not linked here. I think anyone researching this list could definitely benefit from being immediately connected with the article about the actual office of DA in that county, when such an examples exists. VolatileChemical (talk) 13:34, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]