Facts: What we know about the shooting death of Breonna Taylor

That's true. It wasn't a perfect system but it picked better district commanders than the Major system has and by a huge margin. The weak political Captains were outnumbered. That made a bigger pool of good candidates for higher levels of command.

The Democrats got rid of it right after turning the chief's position into an at-will political job when Dotson was forced out. They wanted their old patronage department back and they've gotten it.