{"id":2194,"date":"2020-10-08T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:09:40","slug":"anybody-want-to-be-chief-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Anybody Want to Be Chief of Police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who want a job where your boss (or council of bosses) throws you under the bus at the first sign of trouble, whether you had anything to do with the trouble or not?<\/p>\n<p>Zusha Elinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cities-are-losing-police-chiefs-and-struggling-to-hire-new-ones-11602162000?st=y5ogfqfiz4rc7f7\">reports<\/a> for the WSJ that cities are having difficulty filling their top cop slots.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This summer, a headhunter called Lashinda Stair, second-in-command at the Detroit Police Department, and asked if she was interested in potentially becoming the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Her answer: \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a year that has seen protests in the street, defiant unions, and mayors who are quick to push out police chiefs, the job of running a police department has become less coveted among many law-enforcement leaders. They say what used to be the pinnacle of achievement in their profession\u00a0is now a job in which it is difficult to implement changes and easy to get blamed when things go wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of folks that are hesitant when they see chiefs are getting beat up and getting thrown under the bus by their bosses,\u201d said Art Acevedo, Houston\u2019s police chief and president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, which represents chiefs from 69 of the country\u2019s largest cities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who want a job where your boss (or council of bosses) throws you under the bus at the first sign of trouble, whether you had anything to do with the trouble or not? Zusha Elinson reports for the WSJ that cities are having difficulty filling their top cop slots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anybody Want to Be Chief of Police? - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2194\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anybody Want to Be Chief of Police? - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who want a job where your boss (or council of bosses) throws you under the bus at the first sign of trouble, whether you had anything to do with the trouble or not? 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