Washington MPD aren’t a bunch of buffoons at the patrolman level. At the administrative level, MPD is as screwed up as the rest of DC. Not as bad as Baltimore, these days, but badly in need of a housecleaning. Neither Muriel Bower nor DC Police Chief Kathy Lanier would survive that housecleaning.
Where’s Hercules when you need him?
I didn’t know any cities still hired effective cops anymore; I thought they’d all gone the way of patronage-type jobs. In some cities they have special-forces type units (not SWAT - just the ones without fat asses and guts) that do the real work, and the rest just lounging around...