Somatotypes

A post over on M-M-M-My Pomona announcing the "retirement" of Pomona Police Chief Joe Romero featured a photograph of him. This put us in mind of our own Chief Paul Cooper and similarity these two chiefs of police have in their physiques. We then dug out our copies of Sheldon, The Varieties of Temperament and The Varieties of Human Physique to see if there was an explanation for this extreme endomorphy in the upper echelons of law enforcement. Alas, Sheldon is more descriptive than he is explanatory, so no help there. In fact, most psychologists today dismiss his ideas as so much hooey.

Still, the characteristics must be widespread enough to gain the attention of Hollywood moguls who can make a buck off of anything if it's obvious enough.

You form your own opinion. Below we compare photos of top law enforcement officers in Claremont (Paul Cooper), Pomona (Joe Romero), and New Jersey (Paul Blart).