yeah, several large metro areas are combined county-city governments (e.g., denver) but the vast majority of cities are incorporated and independent of the counties they’re in, except for paying county taxes of course ...
Ok ...former Miami and Coral Gables and South Miami ...old cutler road resident here....my girls born there in the Grove at mercy in 1988 and 1989
It was Metro Dade county govt and sheriff Dept
And many cities within Dade county ..many who have thier own govt and police and some who don’t
Most have complimentary relationship with Metro sheriff but often the local jurisdiction holds sway
County incarceration is Dade county ....Dade jail by Jackson Memorial Hospital , Dade Stockade and TGK by airport , West Dade on Krome ave and north Dade
Some local communities are informal like Coconut Grove or Redlands or Kendall
Some are formal like Miami, Miami Gardens, Hialeah, and Miami Beach ....34 in fact...not all have individual police forces but most do.....Surfside does
The parts of Miami not under local govt are governed by metro Dade....that is a majority of Dade county land mass
It is no longer called Dade county but technically Miami Dade ....to exploit the international name
I disagree the county govt was born of desperate poverty ....
Surely not the case now....Miami Dade is a rich vibrant city ....a million more folks than when I lived there..it is the capital of Latin America ...no question....anyone with money in Latin America or the Caribbean has an escape residence in Myamuh
I love it ....