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"Corrupt greedy lawyers" give the other 1% a bad name.

In the present political environment, Police Chiefs have a similar status to the 'nomenclatura' of the old Soviet Union.

All the important tests for suitability for the job are political, both within the praetorian police unions, and within the interest-juggling petty bureaucracies of city government and state departments.

Our ambitious Chief Brame was no doubt in psychic agony over the possible rejection of himself by the Tacoma Establishment.

Socialist systems of hierarchy and reward tend to pervert people in this particular way. Milovan Djilas wrote a number of interesting books outlining the destruction of human values by such a system in his Tito-era Yugoslavia.

Things aren't that different in the Soviet of Washington, apparently.

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post #47 eloquent and sharp-witted.

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"All the important tests for suitability for the job are political, both within the praetorian police unions, and within the interest-juggling petty bureaucracies of city government and state departments."

Well said. Not all chiefs of police are like that, but there are far too many of them out there.