Why not John?

Kind of random, but I was thinking about it today; is there someone among the existing characters ranks, besides Hope, Rafe or Roman who would make a suitable police commissioner, and suddenly it seemed kind of obvious - what about John?  He's a "veteran" of the ISA, he's worked for the police when he thought he was Roman, surely there'd be grounds for making him commissioner.  I know there's precedent for at least some areas that don't require being a police officer as a prerequisite for being commissioner (Teddy Roosevelt was a New York Co-Commissioner, but was never an officer.  It was more like a political appointment).  John doesn't have much other story than doting on Marlena, which gets tiresome.

Sad to say that the story is probably already settled, and will probably be either Rafe or Hope, or both, but it would make so much sense to make John commissioner; then make, say Hope, Captain for that precinct.