Judging by the column inches devoted to governance issues in our press, especially to police reforms, one could be excused for believing that this country was awash with experts in statecraft, and that the magic solution to all our problems was as close at hand as the opinion pages of the day’s newspaper or the next evening talk show. Alas, there seems little real connection between these endless discussions and write-ups and the problems they are meant to address. The problem is that whereas, on the one hand, the armchair analyst and the pontiff has little idea of the ground realities and complexities of governance, the practitioner, on the other hand, usually really does understand the issues but lacks the articulation, and sometimes the breadth of perspective, to make the right case in the right way before the right quarters.