She ranges across sanitation's long history here, from New Amsterdam's ban on scavenging pigs and Commissioner George E. Waring Jr.'s immaculate White Wings cleaning crews at the turn of the 20th century (whose brooms, Jacob Riis wrote, "swept the cobwebs out of our civic brain and conscience"), through the command breakdown that sullied the department's reputation after the 2010 blizzard.
A note about candidate and former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka: His name comes up in virtually every report or interview about command breakdown and jail violence in the last five years of Baca's tenure.
Whereas Meade inspected his lines, fine-tuned his plans and developed contingencies, Lee made a long list of mistakes: his ambiguous commands, his embrace of faulty intelligence, the command structure breakdown, a flawed artillery barrage and, finally, his inability to "manage his generals".
Lead breakdowns, command the huddle, the locker room and the sidelines.
For policy makers in the region, the worst case scenario would be an unruly power struggle accompanied by a breakdown of command and control over the country's nuclear weapons.
In fact, the American abuses appear more a product of poor training, a breakdown of command authority and astoundingly bad judgment than any premeditated plan.
Sadat said that under previous regimes it would have been unimaginable for a foreigner to be tortured to death, and he believed that it might reflect a breakdown in command.
But in the Financial Times on Monday, Christian Oliver broached the more disturbing possibility of an overall "breakdown in command in North Korea":Perhaps the most worrying of the possibilities is that Kim Jong-il is no longer in full command, possibly because of a stroke the North Korean leader suffered in 2008.
Arnhem Garrison commander Major-General Friedrich Kussin was killed by men of the 3rd Parachute Battalion as he sped towards his headquarters, and his death led to a breakdown in command and responsibilities.
Among the basic lessons of 9/11, two stand out: the agencies tended to put too many resources in a single place; and, in a crisis, communications and chains of command were vulnerable to breakdowns.
A short time after that, he received a phone call from an Army lawyer representing one of the accused, who described near-continuous violence, chain-of-command failures and the breakdown of discipline in Bravo Company's theater of operations: "What that company is going through, it would turn your hair white," he said.
