Do police chiefs really bawl at inferiors like they do in movies?

Heh. I did a google search on the Director last night.

She was fired after 22 years on the force for mismanagement of a unit and for “lying and withholding information” in an investigation into that unit. Then she sued and was reinstated, but retired at 23 years on the force.

My opinion of her was that she was a great Bureaucrat, but a lousy Manager, and that she probably earned her stripes by being a great paper-pusher in an era when the department was being pushed to promote as many women as possible.

As far as my experience of bad tempered/exasperated movie Police Captains goes anyone with any dreams of being one in the last 15 years had better be African American. Or the fake bad guy.