Jerry Dyer’s four years and change as Fresno mayor makes his 40 years as a Fresno police officer and chief feel like a lifetime ago.
Not just Dyer’s lifetime but someone else’s.
“It’s like I was never in the police department ever,” Dyer said toward the end of an hour-long sit down with The Bee’s opinion crew (i.e. Juan Esparza Loera, Tad Weber and myself) after one of us committed the journalistic sin of tossing out a weighty question when the interview subject is already late for his next meeting…