🚀 go-pugleaf

Merlin Dorfman wrote:
> 
> In ca.general Jeff Bishop <jwbishop@ocf.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> : In article <7rkj50$35a@dfw-ixnews13.ix.netcom.com>,
> : Merlin Dorfman  <dorfman@netcom13.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> :>     The important thing is for the survey to be repeatable, or to
> :>be phrased in such a way as to show its scope of accuracy.  If
> :>a similar survey were run by police associations, police departments,
> :>universities, HCI, etc., and got similar results, I would accept it
> :>within the statistical limits of accuracy.
> 
> : Surely you wouldn't expect HCI to admit to such results and publish them?  I
> : don't believe the SDPOA survey was unique, however.
> 
>      Probably not...but if they got different results we would both
> question why the two surveys came out differently, and the truth might
> eventually emerge.
> ....
> 
> : That anti-gun mayors prefer to appoint chiefs out of the anti-gun minority of
> : LEOs should come as no surprise.
> 
>      In my city it's not that important.  The Chief is picked (from the
> captains or lieutenants, or from out-of-town chiefs) based on a number
> of factors, but views on gun control are far down the list, if on it at
> all.

The official list is important at all.

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