Thank you to Charles Winkleman for his hard work as a public watchdog. His latest piece titled Chief Brandon del Pozo Bullies Critics into Silence is credible and urgent. It aligns precisely with my own observations and theories about the chief over the last three and a half years since he abused his power to intimidate me when I criticized his new police logo patch. I think lurking in the cyber shadows is this man's modus operandi. The most likely explanation for what happened in this poll, for example, is that del Pozo himself cheated in it by voting over and over through proxy IP addresses.
I told Miro to get rid of del Pozo then, and have reiterated my direction to the mayor over and over with each new abuse by his appointed police chief. I have warned Weinberger what keeping del Pozo on would do to his legacy. In my view, it's an appalling abdication of duty by Weinberger to have failed to fire del Pozo for this long.
It's also very vexing. Why does the mayor continue to make this obviously horrible choice? The only plausible answer I can think of is that Miro Weinberger himself is intimidated and afraid of del Pozo, and the elected civilian mayor is not in control. His hired gun is.
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