Thank you for asking the question and I must sincerely reply with the following: First, for several years LMPD has been the product of "absentee leadership." Chief White hardly ever showed his face to the platoons on the street -- I never seen him at a roll call (to the contrary, his Interim replacement has already been out to the platoon). Chief White lived in the Crystal Palace and worried more about who he could promote around him than the issues and problems faced by the dept (and to his credit