RB> Now, consider the police in a large city, like, Detroit, or Los Angeles, 
 RB> where 
 RB> there is a huge network of precincts, all with their own career cops and 
 RB> political in-fighting, all working within the jurisdictions of an 
 RB> enormous 
 RB> inner city. What I'm saying is that perhaps your career experience is 
not 
 RB> enough on its own to judge what is going on at a national level. 
Los Angeles is a poor example - they have the largest area to cover per man 
of 
any of the cities, and they have only around 8000 cops in toto.  Here in 
little Baltimore we have more than 2000, and not near 1/4 of the area.
I think Tom probably knows pretty well what's going on other places.  There's 
this thing called Networking - and when you've been in any business for a 
while you learn to do it, or you don't  progress.
Frankly, I think you've found your whipping boy in cops.
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