I agree that that an understanding of local culture makes sense but it is years and years of "local culture" that has us where we are.  I also don't think it's fair or realistic to think that a police chief or any transplant from the mainland would automatically be racist.  We all know some transplants are and some are not.  To me racism is about unfair treatment that some people are targeted from crimes while others are allowed to get away with crimes.  As a local person I don't feel targeted but as a local person I am also aware that if a police officer or their friends and family commit a crime against me that that unfair treatment may occur.  In the mainland the unfairness that needs to be cleaned up is racism but  in Hawaii the unfairness is this type of corruption and having a fox watch the hen house in cleaning this up hasn't worked before and I will not work again.  Hawaii deserves better.