Describe a Mushroom

"Something you keep in the dark and feed horseshit all day long."

It seems that the Superintendent was surprised to find out that all his plainclothes have been in uniform for the past month plus. When he asked why this was, no one had a good answer and no one was willing to throw the person signing off on the order under the proverbial bus.

The order was countermanded immediately and the teams are going back to CD. Good decision. Now how about demoting the mope who signed off on the order? In any event, the current command staff appears to have not related (by accident or by design) all of what's going on in the field. One might believe that the current gold stars are pretty much a collection of political hacks and incompetent double, triple and quadruple "merit" promotees.

Also, there is a new order to be released today stating that Tahoes will not be used in car chases. Ever. The Tahoe will be like a squadrol evidently, even though the Tahoes have been purchased with a police performance package. We are torn on this decision for a number of reasons:

• Anyone being stopped by an officer in a Tahoe now has an incentive to flee;
• Of the 300 or so Tahoes out there, all are camera equipped. By taking them out of pursuit business, you've now denied officers the video evidence needed to justify pursuit actions. We're going back to a system of "he said, he said," and we all know how the cases are going to go once they reach the Traffic Review Board - "here's your suspension and driving school."
• On the other hand, one only has to look at the Densey Cole crash. McCarthy says he lost two officers to SUV crashes, so we can appreciate his concern for the dangers posed by crashes in the trucks.

Debate in the comments.