Yeah I mean you kinda gotta have ties to the police to run for municipal administration, how are you going to run anything if you don’t have some sort of a relationship with the people in charge?
That's true. It's still wild to me though that a lot of death and suffering in this country is almost certainly the result of very low level corruption, i.e. "I want it to be easier for any idiot to become a cop in my town, because my son, an idiot who wants to be a cop, flunked the exam."