I think it's time for states, cities and other municipal governments to have their public risk managers elected by popular vote, rather than appointed by those who might see the post as something of a non-entity, politically speaking.
After all, we elect people to all kinds of offices, from attorneys general to insurance commissioners. Why not have a person responsible for the public welfare directly accountable to the people they serve?
I realize that to make the post of public risk manager an elected position could politicize the job. But that might not be a bad thing, since one of the problems with public risk management is that it does not always have a high profile within local government.
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