That was exhausting to read and intensely frustrating. I struggle to describe the impression that it gives of Captain Akhil; words like, "frivolous," and, "shallow," come to mind. I suppose that it's too 'on the nose', but he even reminded me of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Perhaps it's a merely how the writers portrayed him, but he seems like somebody who rose up through exploiting defects in the system and gladhanding, not through meaningful accomplishment and effort.

There are probably more than a few officers like him in the PPD, which seems very vulnerable to such characters and deprived or uninterested in having or using defenses and controls against them. Leadership, if I may be pardoned for stating the obvious, has a powerful effect upon the character of an organization. Leaders like Captain Akhil exacerbate and enable the police department's worst impulses and habits. Their influence presumably also extends to the Fraternal Order of Police, which is an abhorrent organization that seems to exercise more control over the PPD than any formal, notionally democratic civilian authority. The police, which is a larger social entity than just the currently serving sworn officers, seem to operate for their own interest rather than that of the public, which is a profound latent threat to society.

I always rejected, "defund the police," as rhetorically reckless nonsense and outright police abolition seems insane as something to serve the function of the police will always exist and that something is probably best kept within the state, but they are thoroughly unacceptable in their current state. They should ideally be torn down, the old cultural edifice of 'The Police' destroyed as surely as Carthage was, and be rebuilt as something quite different, but that seems politically and practically impossible.