[mandmandam]

Seems like the smart thing to do would be to give the "too smart" people training to tackle more interesting and important problems - like white collar crime, tax loopholes, internal corruption, etc.

I'll give you three guesses why that's never even floated as an option...

[giantg2]

To be fair, the white collar crime is mostly tackled by other organizations who have investigators but aren't typical police. Like the FBI (accountants comprise a large percentage of agents), SEC, IRS, etc.