Or in the mayor's office.
Or in the WHITE HOUSE!
Sheesh!
Well Iconoclast... from my experience iconoclasts are usually old fuddy duddies > 60 years or 750 moons without any imagination.
Is it so hard for you to imagine that two drinking/shooting buddies might have been in LE together. Maybe one joined in order to get on the SWAT team. 10-20% wash-out or leave one reason or another.
Now, do you need to extrapolate to argue your point or had you not thought about it more than you knee-jeck response?