History Series / Deputy

* TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect: Hollister met Paula, his future wife, when he was in the hospital after being stabbed and she treated him. He'd asked her to dinner afterward, and they ended up married with a daughter.

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Bishop, who has a masculine hair and clothing style, soon reveals they're a lesbian when talking to Hollister. It turns out they had moved to LA and joined the sheriff's department so they could live with their girlfriend. Later they also come out as nonbinary and switch to they/them pronouns too.

* DarkActionGirl: "10-8 Do No Harm" features a female villain named Rose, who impersonates a deputy sheriff, murders an actual deputy on being spotted and takes hostages along with her prisoner boyfriend in a jail infirmary to get him released after he gets life-saving surgery. She's quite ruthless and not hesitant about shooting people or threatening them.

* DirtyCop: In "10-8 Black & Blue" it turns out an LAPD detective with homicide is involved in murders, and drug dealing and frames an innocent man on a murder charge. While talking with Hollister he says he'd [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil slowly fallen further into corruption over time]] to get this far.

* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Several of the LA deputy sheriffs are black, with some Latinos as well. Joseph, who's a black rookie deputy, faces being [[{{Profiling}} profiled]] and threatened by LAPD officers, while also viewed as [[CategoryTraitor a traitor]] by some other black people for being a cop at all. His training officer, herself black, tells Joseph while on the job fellow black people are only going to see him as a cop.

* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: [[CowboyCop Bill Hollister]] sees ICE in this regard and holds their tactics in utter contempt, seeing this as a flagrant abuse of power and an insult to everything being a Sheriff's deputy stands for, with the first episode involving him facing disciplinary actions for disrupting an ICE coordinated raid using the LA Sherriff's deputies. Upon becoming [[TheSheriff Sheriff]], Hollister makes it clear to the senior ICE official that under his command the Sheriff's office will no longer support them in or participate in raids or mass roundups, only in the arrest of specific fugitives determined through the proper channels, despite [[PointyHairedBoss Undersheriff Jerry London]] pointing out this will cost them the massive federal grant the cooperation nets them.

** Paula is traumatized by being taken hostage and threatened, getting counseling afterwards. It continues to trouble her despite the different methods she's tried until at last she confronts the woman who'd taken her hostage, while at last helping Paula come to terms with what happened.

* TheSheriff: The plot starts as Bill Hollister, a CowboyCop deputy in the LA County Sheriff's Department is suddenly made Sheriff when his boss dies due to an archaic rule in the city charter. He decides to take advantage of his new position and change things for the better, but some in the department are very against his planned reforms.

* {{Yakuza}}: "10-8 Paperwork" has the main villain as a Japanese-American gangster connected with crime syndicates both in the US and Japan. Though the Yakuza is not specifically named, he has their telltale tattoos showing from under his shirt. He's in the US as the emissary for a deal with a [[TheCartel Mexican drug cartel]] to traffic cocain within the Southwest.

* ComingOutToSpouse: Bishop comes out to their girlfriend as nonbinary. This ends the relationship because Genevieve isn't sure who Bishop is after this or the implications for her, having defined herself as a lesbian meaning a woman who loves women and can't fit nonbinary into that.

''Deputy'' is a PoliceProcedural starring Creator/StephenDorff that premiered on Creator/{{Fox}} in 2020.

* BarBrawl: Carter picks a fight while in a bar with Joseph during "10-8 Agency". Joseph has to stop him beating the guy he gets in a fight with severely, and then reluctantly goes along with his excuse for it afterward.

* ComingOutStory: Bishop, though out as a lesbian (mentioning this in the pilot to Hollister) tells Paula later they're "not all woman" after having had a long period of discomfort on the topic, coming out as nonbinary this way too. When they told their girlfriend though, Genevieve was unhappy about this revelation, with the two breaking up eventually as a result of it. Bishop later also starts to use they/them pronouns. All of their colleagues and work friends accept this easily however, assuring Bishop they're supported. Hollister even sends a memo out helpfully updating people on their new pronouns. Bishop is quite pleased by this.
* ComingOutToSpouse: Bishop comes out to their girlfriend as nonbinary. This ends the relationship, because Genevieve isn't sure who Bishop is after this or the implications for her, having defined herself as a lesbian meaning woman who loves woman, and can't fit nonbinary into that.

* DirtyCop: In "10-8 Black & Blue" it turns out an LAPD detective with homicide is involved in murders, drug dealing and frames an innocent man on a murder charge. While talking with Hollister he says he'd [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil slowly fallen further into corruption over time]] to get this far.

** In "Deputy Down" when a deputy is killed on the job, there's a ceremonial roll call made by the LA County Sheriff's Deputies which ends with his send off.

** Hollister and London team up to oppose District Attorney Carol Riley when she's announced her candidacy for County Sheriff because neither one wants any outsider running their department, no matter what else they disagree on.

** In "10-8 Firestone" Hollister runs into Valeria, a woman who once had been informant when he worked narcotics. They were also involved, as he admits to his wife while assuring her it's long over. Valeria's now a money courier for criminals and gives him information about human trafficking that she knows of. She gets a new life in WitnessProtection because of this, and they have a bittersweet farewell.

* ObviousRulePatch: The failure to do this is what kicks off the series. Presumably, if someone had noticed the LASD's line of succession rules have not changed since 1850, they would have amended the charter. Alas, no one did, so it stood that, should the sheriff die in office, his replacement is the longest-serving member of his mounted posse. In 1850 the sheriff's mounted posse would have consisted of his most trusted and senior deputies. In 2020 few deputies even know how to ride a horse and the mounted division is a secondary department with little clout. Hollister has served in the mounted division for so long because he is deeply unpopular with the senior brass and was thus never transferred or promoted to a more prestigious division.

* OutrankingYourJob: Hollister continues dealing with crime as if he were a street cop and not the Sheriff responsible for a department of thousands. However, this is deliberately invoked by Hollister, as he feels, not incorrectly, that one of the biggest issues facing the Sheriffs' Department is the disconnect between the upper-level brass and the boots on the ground.
* PleaBargain: District Attorney Carol Riley tells Hollister she plans to cut a deal with [[DirtyCop corrupt former detective]] Johnson that will have him plead guilty in exchange for light punishment, as he's given useful information to her office. Hollister opposes this strongly, and works to kill the plea deal.

* {{Profiling}}: Joseph endures this when a friend of his gets pursued as a murder suspect, with his trying to help through saying he's a deputy sheriff ignored by an LAPD officer. He gets forced down at gunpoint as he attempts to show his badge, with the officer clearly not seeing anything except just another dangerous black man in his mind. Joseph is very upset about it afterward, saying how even becoming a cop hasn't changed being treated like this.

* SemperFi: Cade is a Marine veteran who'd been a sniper. His skills come in handy [[BadgesAndDogTags as a deputy sheriff]], with him being consistently shown to be among the best because of his background.

** Paula is traumatized by being taken hostage and threatened, getting counseling afterward. It continues to trouble her despite the different methods she's tried until at last she confronts the woman who'd taken her hostage, while at last helps Paula come to terms with what happened.

* TransEqualsGay: The LA County Jail has a ward just for LGBT+ inmates. It's described being for the gay inmates, although some are clearly trans women, like Daisy. Of course, the deputies probably aren't very concerned with specific terminology. In any case, they treat them well.

* TwerpSweating: Hollister is very protective about his daughter Maggie, an attitude her mom and grandma note is common among fathers. Though polite, after meeting her boyfriend he browbeats the kid a bit while making clear he'll never tolerate any mistreatment of her. He later apologizes for not trusting her judgment and doing this however.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Bill Hollister becomes acting sheriff as he was the longest serving member of the previous sheriff's mounted posse (interpreted as the LASD's mounted division).

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Bishop, who has a masculine hair and dress, soon reveals they're a lesbian when talking to Hollister. It turns out they had moved to LA and joined the sheriff's department so they could live with their girlfriend. Later they also come out as nonbinary and switch to they/them pronouns too.

* RiteOfPassage: Hollister's daughter Maggie has a quinceañera since she's a Latina along with his wife, her mom Paula, which they're shown making the preparations for ahead of time. In the last episode when it's performed he misses the event as he's saving an informant from being murdered.

** "10-8 Agency" sees confidential informants being killed all over LA, which the Sheriff's Department starts investigating.

* RiteOfPassage: Hollister's daughter Maggie has a quinceañera since she's a Latina along with his wife, her mom Paula, which they're shown making the preparations for ahead of time.

* BadgesAndDogTags: Cade Ward was a Marine before he became an LA County Sheriff's Deputy, serving as a sniper for the Marine Corps and then the LASD sometimes too.

* HappilyAdopted: Cade and his wife Teresa have been unable to conceive. As a result, they look into adoption, taking two orphaned kids in before adopting them. They become loving parents to their adopted kids Roberto and Camillo, gaining the trust of both while also finally having a biological child. Cade had grown up in the foster care system along with his sister, so he's determined to give the kids the loving family which he never had.

** Paula is traumatized by being taken hostage and threatened, getting counseling afterward.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: DarkActionGirl Rosa in "10-8 Do No Harm" becomes willing to murder and take hostages for her incarcerated boyfriend. It's shown the couple genuinely love each other, and he really does need surgery to save his life which the prison system otherwise won't authorize before they're hostage-taking coerces this into being provided.

* ComingOutStory: Bishop, though out as a lesbian (mentioning this in the pilot to Hollister) tells Paula later they're "not all woman" after having had a long period of discomfort on the topic, coming out as nonbinary this way too. When they told their girlfriend though, Genevieve was unhappy about this revelation, with the two breaking up eventually as a result of it. Bishop later also starts to use they/them pronouns.

* TheYakuza: "10-8 Paperwork" has the main villain as a Japanese-American gangster connected with crime syndicates both in the US and Japan. Though the Yakuza is not specifically named, he has their telltale tattoos showing from under his clothing. He's there as the emissary for a deal with a [[TheCartel Mexican drug cartel]] to traffic cocain in the US Southwest.

* TheYakuza: "10-8 Paperwork" has the main villain as a Japanese-American gangster connected with crime syndicates both in the US and Japan. Though the Yakuza is not specifically named, he has their telltale tattoos showing from under his clothing.

* HostageSituation: "10-8 Do No Harm" centers on one which occurs at a jail infirmary when a male prisoner and his female accomplice [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer disguised]] as a deputy take hostages to have him transferred so he can get the surgery needed for saving his life, which the authorities hadn't approved.

* TattooedCrook: Villalobos, a major Latino LA gangster, has a gang tattoo on the side of his head.

* TraumaButton: In "10-8 Paperwork" Paula's triggered by hearing an alarm go off while she's about to perform surgery, as this makes her remember being held hostage during "10-8 Do No Harm". She does manage to calm herself though and continue the operation.

* PleaBargain: District Attorney Carol Riley tells Hollister she plans to cut a deal with [[DirtyCop corrupt former detective]] Johnson that will have him plead guilty in exchange for light punishment, as she thinks a public trial would damage the city. Hollister opposes this strongly, and works to kill the plea deal.

* PleaBargain: District Attorney Carol Riley plans to cut a deal with [[DirtyCop corrupt former detective]] Johnson so he'll plead guilty for light punishment, as she thinks a public trial would damage the city. Hollister opposes this strongly, and works to kill the plea deal.

** Hollister and London team up to oppose LA District Attorney Carole Riley after she's announced her candidacy for LA County Sheriff because neither one wants any outsider running their department, no matter what else they disagree on.

* PleaBargain: LA District Attorney Carole Riley plans to cut a deal with [[DirtyCop corrupt former detective]] Johnson so he'll plead guilty for light punishment, as she thinks a public trial would damage the city. Hollister opposes this strongly, and works to kill the deal.