Louisville never gets someone who's been Chief of a similar sized or bigger city. White came from Greensboro, NZ which has 280,000 people and Conrad came from Glendale, AZ which has 235,000 people. Whenever you hire a Chief from a much smaller city like that you take a gamble, especially if they were only there a few years. Sanders was hired from DEA, and turned out OK for tiny J-Town, but bigger departments like Chicago have been severely burned hiring Chiefs from federal agencies. Departments
Louisville never gets someone who's been Chief of a similar sized or bigger city. White came from Greensboro, NZ which has 280,000 people and Conrad came from Glendale, AZ which has 235,000 people. Whenever you hire a Chief from a much smaller city like that you take a gamble, especially if they were only there a few years. Sanders was hired from DEA, and turned out OK for tiny J-Town, but bigger departments like Chicago have been severely burned hiring Chiefs from federal agencies. Departments