"Municipalities are probably the best form of government". Unfortunately municipalities are arguably the most corrupt form of government, the major sins being

"Municipalities are probably the best form of government". Unfortunately municipalities are arguably the most corrupt form of government, the major sins being nepotism and crony favoritism. If all that TSA social network analysis software used (largely unsuccessfully) to locate criminals and terrorists was instead applied to _any_ large US city's municipal employee and political system a major scandal would result and heads would roll.