Oh the department will deploy you, but they will tell you what to wear and what to use, so as not to appear too aggressive or too intimidating. Then the chief and his command staff will lock themselves inside headquarters, call you, or someone they golf with, and tell you how best to handle a protesting crowd. From behind the locked doors of headquarters. Recall that chief? You and Ozzie Gibson, cowering in your locked headquarters while we handle the job out in the street? If you think "leadership"