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Never said the good cops would engage in de-policing. This is not an all or nothing, police department wide thing. You have more than 1200 police. Doesn’t take many to cause a loss of public safety.

I am not trying to shame anyone. I’m trying to underscore that the County Executive is too obtuse to see how top two choices won’t help the police or Montgomery county.  Leadership matters more than people seem to think. [/quote]

If the choices are

(1) no oversight even when members of the county police department do questionable things while policing 
(2) members of the county police department having hurt feelings and refusing to do their jobs

I'm really not sure which is worse for public safety.[/quote]

Those aren’t the choices. The choices are Marcus Jones or some other Chief.  That’s it.[/quote]

And your intuition tells you that the more than 1,200 police officers in Montgomery County will either continue to engage in questionable behavior or they will just abandon their duties altogether under Antonio DeVaul or Tonya Chapman?[/quote]

Why evidence do you have that the whole force is engaging in questionable behavior? [/quote]

Didn’t say it was or that it would but evidently there’s some sense of paranoia going around that there’s only one messiah who can step in as police chief and keep the department from crumbling.  That’s a wild rationale that is far outside of my comprehension but damned it that’s not how folks are acting.[/quote]

Nobody said there’s a messiah. Only that the best candidate is internal and the executive instead picked two candidates who would be in over their heads. One would possibly make existing problems much worse.  If he’d picked somebody with a great reputation from another major city, it would have been an entirely different story. But he didn’t. He’s incompetent at picking department heads because he has no idea what leadership looks like. While residents may not be impacted by a bad HR director, people will likely be impacted by a bad police chief. [/quote]

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