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Detective Jimmy McCarron is, at 29, one of the younger members of the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division. He works the RHD day shift, alongside his partner, Sergeant Ryan Sheridan, along with golden boy Detective Frank Smith and legendary Sergeant Joe Friday. Their supervisor is Captain Ruth Hagermann. McCarron is also close with Sergeant T.J. McCabe, a sniper on the LAPD's SWAT Alpha Squad. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, raised in the Bronx, and spent time with the NYPD before he moved to Los Angeles. No one has any idea why, but he hates New York with a passion.

McCarron has a stereotype as hotheaded and vengeful. He is definitely the most intense detective on the squad, and while he can use violence to force the outcome, it is never without cause and never violence for violence's sake. Jimmy McCarron never pushes anyone harder than he pushes himself. He is obsessively, passionately devoted to his job, and under his controlled exterior is a fierce drive for justice. McCarron has no family life to speak of; the job comes first to him and he is always looking for the next fight, challenge, or arrest to push him and make him better. Conversely, no one takes a screwup harder than he does. He internalizes much of what he feels, holding himself to a strict self-imposed code of justice and ethics that no one else really understands.

He lets few people get close to him. He and married man Sheridan disagree when it comes to methodology. His relationship with T.J. has been fraught with controversy. Frank drives him up the wall. He has an adversarial relationship with Los Angeles County D.A. David McNorris. His two closer friends are agents of the CIA's Counter Terrorist Unit, Michael Colefield and Brittany House, a former husband and wife team who collaborated with him on several occasions when they lived in Los Angeles. McCarron's complicated history with them involves both a professional and personal stake, as he saved both their lives yet was once in love with Brittany. The pair are now divorced and living in New York, and McCarron has taken over some of their former cases.

But he now finds himself becoming increasingly bored with his work as a homicide detective. Jimmy McCarron is looking for a challenge. What happens if he's conquered everything?

The character of Jimmy McCarron and L.A. Dragnet belong to ABC, Dick Wolf, et cetera. I make no profit from this venture. All original content, including original backstory, any original characters, elements, plots, stories, or other content, are the author's personal property. I have no relationship to Desmond Harrington, the man who played McCarron, though I did meet him once.

Since L.A. Dragnet gives McCarron very little canon (he's from the Bronx and he had a girlfriend with a tattoo), most of his backstory here is a mesh of the actor's own background and the writer's perceived canon. It also mixes characters from the first season of Dragnet (2003) before it became L.A. Dragnet in 2004. Spoilers are possible for the unaired episode "Killing Field" as well as all other episodes of the remake.

McCarron also has RP-related history with the 24 fandom and some other multifandom characters. He has developed relationships and backstory outside of Dragnet canon, and therefore may be involved in crossfandom events and relationships as necessary.

Jimmy is not a nice guy. He's an ass, sometimes. He swears. He drinks. He beats people up. This journal is not intended for anyone under the age of eighteen. This is your content warning.

Oh, yeah...and Jimmy McCarron is not a real person.