...police commissioner was named to helm the department. This man was a genuinely nice soul, kind and gracious, who had bided his time for decades, rising slowly in rank, until it was his turn to grab the brass ring. His resume did not include much police work. In fact, the business of policing...

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...the city was decidedly not the fuel that drove his career. Instead, his long trajectory owed much to having had been the driver for a previous police commissioner who had been among the more influential leaders of the department, a man who in his time had made and ended many a subordinate's...
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...career.

As I said, his car was chauffered by a man generally well-liked, who quickly made lieutenant, then captain, then colonel and so forth. It was all of little matter to the general operation of the BPD until such time he reached the rank of deputy commissioner at the same moment that...
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Daryl Gates of the LAPD got his start as chauffeur for the chief of police.
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