Chief Acevedo Blindsided by his MPD Staff
The Ron Pappier's wife accident coverup is a sad ugly event in the MPD history. But this type of event occurs only when you promote people based on friendship and political connections. Chief Acevedo's command staff most of them but not all of them have been promoted based on the "Peter Principle", they are incompetent and have been promoted to their highest level of incompetency.
Mayor Francis Suarez and most commissioners with the exception of Joe Carrollo and Manolo Reyes are to blame. They have politicized the department and corrupted the MPD staff. Francis was Pappier's buddy, even endorsing him during the Chief's first press conference.
Chief Acevedo needs to bring in two of his most trusted former staff members from Houston, one to be his Chief of Staff and the other to oversee the two most politically sensitive sections of MPD, Internal Affairs and the Special Investigations Sections. These two sections are critical to the success of Chief of police, the politicians usually use these two sections to gather dirt on their adversaries.
It is shameful and a national embarrassment that Chief Art Acevedo was BLINDSIDED by his staff.