Why can‘t the LAPD be more like the Sheriff’s Department? By which I mean, why is it so resistant to meritorious criticism, and prone to cloak its operations as if it were some arcane sect?Put it another way. Why can‘t Los Angeles junk its demonstrably futile system of police governance and come up with something that works better — like the Special Counsel’s Office that oversees the county Sheriff‘s Department?Two developments fuel this question: First, the special counsel — better, if inaccurately, known as the Kolts Commission — last week filed its latest six-month update on how well the state’s largest police department is doing. In many ways, it‘s one of the most critical such reports in recent years. But it also records how the sheriff has made its previous suggestions into departmental routine.