@WesternChauvinist1 The FBI (who I have more experience with than I’d like) consists of an overloaded minority of competent guys who follow orders, and a not-so-competent majority of ‘cops’ who do the footwork – often on loan from local and state police departments who hire avg IQ of just 105.
Most crime isn’t difficult. I’ve organized prosecution with postal, justice, fbi, and irs, and you know, it’s actually pretty hard to get them to act on someone. The crimes they need to solve are those that remove the career criminals and networks from society. Or those criminals that threaten the illusion of government control, and public safety – almost all of which is cultural, not admnistrative.
The problem in my experience (much like working with justice, vs intel, vs DOD) is that like the rest of life, you end up dealing with the nitwits who want to show that they have the metal to climb the ladder into midwits which their intellect prevents them from, and they engage by throwing you into ‘the process’ with other nitwits and midwits, and the people with talent work on what really matters.
So the few competent people provide the illusion of competency at the extremes while the nitwits and midwids use process to grind the population like every other bureaucracy. And this is just another example of why the ‘professional bureaucracy’ theory fails when the demographic distribution of the population can no longer supply the ratio of competent people the job requres – because the population is oversupplying people who are nitwits and midwits.
(Yes I have worked for or with Justice, CIA, and DOD – as well as a good number of the Fortune 150.)