21-hour days and $320,000 of overtime highlight 'shocking' extra pay to 7 LMPD officers

Fischer has consistently tried to keep the bad news at arms length like the article said. He could have easily put Doug Hamilton or some other retired chief above LMPD to manage Conrad better when he started getting into trouble. I'm sure the job seemed much easier to Conrad when he was an administrative major, but you can't run a police department spending all your thinking time on community relations and administrative matters to the detriment of enforcement. There are multiple legs to the stool.