Years ago, the former police chief of San Jose, Joe McNamara, spoke to the California Bar Association about the War on Drugs. He believed that the enormous amount of black market money was too much temptation for young police officers.
He brought respect to the San Jose Police Department.
If you have not read his novels, you should. The novel set in LA made clear the problems then faced by the LA Police Department. For instance, every police person in town went to view celebrity crimes, in spite of the contamination of the crime scenes.
He believed that the police should become professional investigators, and not just be societies' "bouncers".
The War on Drugs made the intellectuals of the 60s hate the police. Dr. McNamara taught us that we could respect the officers of the law.
Dr. McNamara is dead. I am not certain that he can be replaced.
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