The change to Majors was driven by the Mayor's office. By then they had already begun the process of making the 2 departments into Metro. Abramson and his temporary stand-in Armstrong never liked the degree of independence that LPD civil service. He began by making it easier to fire the Chief years before. He got a much more politically palatable Chief in Doug H but he only had limited powers because the civil service Captains were prone to thinking too independently. The politicization of the department