This post is spot on! After 21 years at LPD/LMPD (been retired 10), it shouldn't still amaze me at how consistently the administration(s) and Mayor's office truly get this whole "police thing" absolutely wrong, but yet somehow it does. I hate to sound like an old-timer, or over-simplify how things were in those days, but it really wasn't that difficult to understand: you diligently patrolled your beat, addressed any suspicious activity, took the bad guys to jail, watched your fellow officers' backs,