The absence of black men is similarly stark in the elite commands.
A decade later, Officer Leader, one of the few black men in the department's elite commands, has seen the limits of hard work.
In recent years, the department has used money earmarked to create a minority-recruiting unit for other uses, refused to document its performance to auditors and done little to address the virtual segregation of elite commands.
It also said he energetically recruited Muslims for the SS, the Nazi Party's elite military command, and was promised that he would be installed as the leader of Palestine after German troops drove out the British and exterminated more than 350,000 Jews there.
A resident in the city named Ahmed, reached by Skype on Thursday afternoon, said Aleppo was convulsed with rumors that the army's elite Fourth Division, commanded by Mr. Assad's brother Maher, was mobilizing for an attack.
On Sunday, an AP reporter found some 50 charred corpses in a makeshift lockup near a military base that had been run by the Khamis Brigade, an elite unit commanded by Gadhafi's son, Khamis.
Players' wages come in at €130m per season, roughly half of Chelsea's outlay, which just goes to show that their elite-level football doesn't have to command elite-level pay-checks and transfer fees.
The elite considers the command of written French as an expression of national identity.
Each can fill their immense stadiums, but neither has access to the broadcasting streams that a diminishing elite of clubs command.
For elite athletes, who command seven-figure salaries, returning to college is an investment and a hedge against what can be an uncertain future.
