Yeah, I think it was partly that. Personally, I put a blank ballot paper in the box because I don’t see the sense in this being an elected position. They should hire someone with the requisite qualifications and experience! The candidates in my area, to the extent that I heard anything about them, seemed to be running on platforms involving “keeping politics out of policing”… from which I infer that putting politics in policing is perceived as unpopular.
Yeah, I think it was partly that. Personally, I put a blank ballot paper in the box because I don’t see the sense in this being an elected position. They should hire someone with the requisite qualifications and experience! The candidates in my area, to the extent that I heard anything about them, seemed to be running on platforms involving “keeping politics out of policing”… from which I infer that putting politics in policing is perceived as unpopular.