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"Standard practice" is the refuge of unintelligent stooges. It's like "zero tolerance" policies - specifically designed to remove actual thought and accountability from process. It also nicely fits in with my earlier statement regarding many LEOs.

In a world of "standard practice" why exactly do we need so many overpaid and over-qualified bureaucrats then? The "standard practices" should streamline the system and allow it to run with much less hands-on management, no?

Also regarding LEOs (we have a couple in the family, federal, not local) there's a HUGE difference between honest-to-goodness professional LEO types and the run-of-the-mill street guys. The latter group outnumber the first about 100-to-1 and are unfortunately who the public typically encounters / deals with. They are all too often the sorts of bully / "hoo-rah" paramilitary wanna-be types that watched too much "Rambo" as kids or washed out of the service (or both).