Lessons from Jersey, the only place under the British crown that already elects police chiefs

By Bagehot

FOR a different perspective on the debate about elected police commissioners, Bagehot left the mainland and this week flew to the island of Jersey, a crown dependency that has been electing police chiefs for several centuries. True, Jersey is different from the United Kingdom. It is affluent, tight-knit and small (with 98,000 people in an area about a tenth the size of London).

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