Most good police work is not brillant. It is hard work to find linking data/facts that leave a trail to the bad guy. So very true, and so very lacking in this case. Too many Ph.D.s in cheesy subjects like Urban Studies. Too many Ninja suits and MP5s. But nobody notices when they see the same car TEN TIMES and nobody notices it was modified to hide a sniper.
Policing suffers from the same diseases as public education: Too many credentials from dumbed-down postgraduate programs, a rigid unionization of the workforce, political correctness gone wild, topheavy management, inflated costs, too many personnel doing too little real work, etc. So why do we get jackboot lickers on this forum that won't say one bad word about cops? Contrast that with freeper teachers, military, and other government employees - all willing to rip the way their work is done these days. Until the blue wall of silence is torn down, it won't get any better.
Last week I got into semi heated discussion with a lady involved in the local school system. They are looking for a credential surveyor who will look at the credentials of a teacher to determine if they can teach a certain subject like physics, chemistry, math courses or whatever.
She was trying to make it sound like such a complicated task. I told her that I could handle the job part time and still have a lot of time to go fly fishing.
She said how could I do this complicated task. I said that I would hire a good secretary to go over their credentials to see if on paper they had the minimal quals. Then, I would hire a private detective to see if they did attend a college or university and complete these key courses and to interview the professors re the abilities shown by the applicant while they were students. Then I would get copies of any thesis or written work to review.
Then the key element would be an interview to see if they really know their subject or not. That might run 2 minutes to an hour.
She was appalled that I would be so aggressive and not just look at their resumes. She said that I was too judgemental and would never find qualified teachers. I just laughed.