Most of our officials have no real training. The coroner is a funeral director and judges are mostly business people. Hell, we don't even have a chief of police.
Most times I like it this way. Sometimes it does suck that they really don't know what they are doing. We have a friend that has a 14 year old daughter involved with a 24 year old married man. The local police claim they can't do anything about it. Of course the county DA saw it a different way