🚀 go-pugleaf

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.