The Chief is an appointed politician and politicians have double-standards and generally don't know how to do their job as well as they know how to stay in office. All of the Majors are non-merit appointees too. Don't expect fairness or even competence from them. If this City were serious about having a professional police department, they would restore some legitimacy to our corrupted civil service process and would use it to select our department's leaders instead of reserving those spots for