S poiler alert: Short-term rentals are high on new Scottsdale Police Chief Joe LeDuc’s to-do list, as well as maintaining the public’s trust and “community engagement.”

But before getting into the nuts and bolts – or Tasers and handcuffs – of running a police department, ask LeDuc how he got into the only line of work he has known.

Then grab a drink and a snack and hit the sofa.

Listening to him answer is like watching an old movie:

“I always knew from a very young age that I wanted to be a police officer, even in Chicago. We lived in a suburb … You could cross the street at that age back then, 1974 or ’75. And I would walk across the street and there’d be a police officer in this old police car with an officer, and he’d be doing radar with his big radar gun up and down the street, my

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