If politics must be brought into policing, let it be local | Simon Jenkins

Police commissioners may not capture the public imagination, but we reject any measure of democracy at our peril

I always suspect anyone who tells me not to vote. The campaign against next week's election of police commissioners is meretricious. The vote may be less than a quarter baked. The purpose may be obscure and the process mad. But so are American elections where the "winner" can get fewer votes than the loser. A ballot is the nearest a secular society gets to a sacred ritual, the votin...