Big Boys Don't Cry

Big boys don't cry, do they? Especially if 

they're brawny and brainy and chief of a

large metropolitan area police force. Do they 

cry then? They may, if the circumstances are 

crushing enough and personally frustrating 

given the duties of security and public order

incumbent on the holder of that office. He

is reputed to have once warned a subordinate

he was on the cusp of cutting off his 'balls'

for bookends. Faced with a crisis of public control 

when other big brawny non-security protesters 

converging on the city saw his own rebelling 

against the candidate recruited from 'outside' 

despite his 35-year experience in the profession 

and his deputy-chief role in the biggest city in the 

country, that won him the trust as winning candidate 

in a search to replace the retiring chief, the Police

Services Board saw in him a progressive-minded 

administrator capable of dealing with rising crime

but the rank and file viewed him an uppity Black.