My opinion..with knowledge of the workings of city gov't, is that it is very unusual and maybe never happened in the past that an officer gets promoted twice in one year especially to an upper level position.

This stinks of corruption that may even extend to SHOPO...being that 2 directors of that union are Kealoha's surfing buddys are somewhat involved in this stink.  Is the SHOPO boss a functioning member of HPD and what does he do?  Does he "hit the road" like other officers and supervise their actions...if yes, what area of the city does he work?

I am now ashamed to say that I served as a HPD officer for fear that people may think I am corrupt.