I don’t like the term “deputies.”
I like “police.”
I don’t like “investigators.”
I like “detectives.”
So the detectives determined that Justin was smoking his bong in the wilderness after police said they heard a group around a campfire playing Wu-Tang covers with a sitar.
The investigators and the deputies just stood around sounding stupid.
Which is generally what pigs do.
“Investigator” doesn’t exactly conjour up an image of a Dick Tracy. It makes me think of the tax man poking his nose into my financial affairs.
Investigator seems too broad, anyone can investigate. Detective is, at least in my mind, implicitly linked to the police. Therefore, it seems to be a more precise description.