29. Vincent DeMarco

This guy has had a great run, and by all accounts, it’s not even close to over. After serving as a Suffolk County deputy sheriff for 11 years, where he was known as a hard-nosed law enforcement official who racked up plenty of arrests, DeMarco was the first uniformed man to ever win the office of Suffolk County sheriff. As if that weren’t enough, he was the first member of a third party to win a countywide election when he ran as a member of the Conservative Party. In 2008, DeMarco’s department won many headlines when the sheriffs were assigned patrol areas that have long been in the purview of the Suffolk County Police Department. It has not been a popular decision, to say the least, but it has not swayed DeMarco from his stance as a crime fighter, and his men and women have answered the call.