Beating up on the sergeant

In an episode fo the Nick Carter radio show, the head of the local Reform League comes into the office where the police sergeant and Nick are talking, and begins to berate the sarge for not having put a stop to a racket involving organized panhandling. The fallacy in the scenario is that no one would come to a sergeant on such a matter, because he is at too low a level to be able to do anything about it. The writers goofed on that one.