The switch to Majors was all about being able to fire command at will. It began before merger and was the successor step to firing the Chief at will. Used to be the LPD Chief was protected from the Mayor, until Jerry Abramson got the Aldermen to turn it into a 100% at-will political position. The reason these protections existed in the 1st place was because LPD had long suffered from a corrupted political patronage system. We now see the effects of making LMPD as political as LPD was in the distant