You should live here for a while. Many new and improved Captains have come and gone from the district and it hasn't solved the big problems. Too soon to see if Mulligan will be different. Do you want to know why some residents don't have confidence that another insider would be the solution?
One example: the intermittent resident who got immunity after he helped dump Lynn Friend over the side of the boat years ago. He's a problem to say the least. His believable claim that he was close with you know who and his "I dare you to call 911" stance ? As a proven dangerous guy, who is undeterred by the threat of a 911 call, It's not worth the risk. Does this mean that today, with a new Sheriff, if there would be a need to make a 911 call, that we're safer from this cat; or is he still an untouchable? That's only ONE of the scary characters who lurks around here. People wont report crime when there's of a lack of confidence and low expectation of enforcement. They buy a better security system and grow the hedges higher.
We are very hopeful that the new Sheriff, from the outside, will look at things from a different perspective and not through the eyes of community policing. As we have all learned 49 visits to a house later, some individuals are just dangerous.