No, genius, I can get somebody who ISN'T a bumbling idiot for one Helluva lot less than the feckless politicians in Anchorage have given the APD for union support in their elections.   You can call on emotion and whine, but the reality is there is no management in APD and the whole line of supervision is simply a group of co-conspirators who make sure everyone gets as deep as possible into the taxpayers' pockets.

The reality of the AST recruitment problems is the fact that the Alaska resident workforce is so drug and crime ridden that it is very difficult to recruit Alaska residents and you have to exhaust resident recruitment before you can go elsewhere.

And assuming you're a cop, I wouldn't do your job because I can hire you; you couldn't have done my job because you don't know how, and are very unlikely to ever learn how; it was a little more demanding than flipping burgers or rousting drunks.

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