Ronald L. Daniel

He resigned after 88 days in office, making him the shortest-serving commissioner in the department's history.

According to The Baltimore Sun, he held "more than a dozen posts", ultimately being promoted from major to colonel in 1994 by commissioner Thomas C. Frazier, becoming head of the criminal investigation division later the same year.

[2][3][4] He became chief of the field operations bureau, the second-in-command at the department, in 1996, serving alongside future acting commissioner John E.

[5][2] Frazier suspended Daniel in 1997 following a comment at a Vanguard Justice Society meeting implying that Frazier should be fired if he did not address "internal racism" in the department, accusing him of "insubordination" and that his comments amounted to advocating "an overthrow of the government".

This caused a revolt by 13 high-ranking members of the Vanguard Justice Society and calls for Frazier's resignation.