No one at the bottom has the power to fix anything. The web site chitchat defuses a lot of the animosity. No one's holding rallies or picketing like back in the days of Dave Armstrong. That might also be because so many people are far having 20 years and have more to lose. No one with sense stays past 20 on a department being run like LMPD if they can find a post-retirement job, unless their buddy can get them a nice easy job away from the street. I'm about 99% sure most of the people complaining