Good riddance to bad rubbish.Mrs. Ip, who kept a sword from the People's Liberation Army at the front of her desk, has overseen the city's police, immigration, customs and other uniformed officers since July 1998.
Her efforts to push through the proposed security legislation, demanded by Beijing but deeply unpopular here, became almost as controversial as the bill itself. She questioned last autumn the value of democracy in protecting civil liberties and suggested that Hitler gained power because of universal suffrage, a position that historians dispute because of Hitler's reliance also on political violence. Three days before the July 1 march, she declared that she would not feel any pressure no matter how many people showed up.
