Fan Casting Commissioner Dalton in Stephen Fung's Hard Boiled II

A bottom-line bureaucrat more concerned with PR and his mayoral ambitions than justice. He's weak, risk-averse, and paralyzed by fear of bad press—he caves to Waxman's demands not out of malice, but out of sheer cowardice. He's the cautionary figure of what happens when a cop becomes a politician: all talk, no spine, and willing to sacrifice anyone to save his career.