Either the APS is a good ol' boy oligarchy, or it is not.

A few tens of thousands of dollars will pay for a
special procedures examination of standards and
accountability in the leadership of the APS.

The audit would show considerable recent improvement in
written standards, and no improvement at all in actual and
honest accountability to those standards.

The audit would reveal that the chief executive officer can
take a legitimate complaint lodged against him, label it
a nuisance, and then shit can it.

There are three schools of thought;

1. good ol' boy oligarchy is in the public interests
2. good ol' boy oligarchy doesn't affect the public interests one way or the other, and
3. good ol' boy oligarchies are better replaced with honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence; in the public best interest.
   

Members of the first two schools of thought are
unlikely to stand up and demand a special procedures
examination of standards and accountability in the
leadership of APS.

Members of the school of thought that,
there should be a special procedures examination with
the ultimate goal of replacing good ol' boys with
public servants accountable honestly accountable to the public,

will not stand up either.

... go figure.

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