[Bruce Campbells Chin]

If the right people are hired and put on the right cases it might work.

Agreed, but the odds of that happening are very small. These positions are more likely to be political patronage/spoils positions for more people to collect a government check.

[Covenantor]

...called for eliminating 30 vacant sworn police officer positions and replacing them with civilian investigators.

sub-text, despite all our efforts we could not recruit enough abcdef...xyz's to fill the vacate positions...seems nobody want to be Ballamo cop.