Instructive, is it not, that Fargo City Commissioners Michelle Turnberg and Dave Piepkorn seem to have backed off their once-furious stratagem to sack Chief of Police David Zibolski? Not long ago they were calling for his head after he bungled a public briefing and press conference about two downtown shootings. When he finally got to making a statement and holding a news conference, he was condescending and petulant. Not the best performance for the chief, although the kerfluffle over his minor missteps was more about an overly self-important press corps and a cabal of chronic cop critics than what the public was demanding.

Nevertheless, the chief (who by my assessment has done a very good job) found himself drawn into the miasmatic ambitions of Turnberg and Piepkorn, both of whom belie

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