Not wishing to insult your intelligence more than usual, our splendid Constitution was designed from an understanding that perfect systems don’t translate well from paper to the real world. As a case in point, the local pro-democracy crowd seems to have found a way to pump power from those elected and their appointees, and in a nonnegligible way.

A root problem with current turmoil among city police is a powerful worker grievance board, top city officials said Friday.

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