I mean that’s happened a lot now, there’s been many instances of mayors and city councils at odds with their police forces and well… The police have the guns so it usually goes nowhere.
In the city I grew up in the police union ran the police chief out of town after two cops were caught doing drugs on duty in their cruzers. Police chief wanted to regularly drug test his police force saying “if we enforce these laws we better follow these laws.” Union took him to court said it violated their rights. He was stalked and harassed by his own police force. The police union won in court. I’d call that defying a direct order and the city yawned and moved on way back in 2007 when it happened.
Source: worked in local news and we ran multiple stories on this over the course of several months. The public was absolutely informed about it.
I mean that’s happened a lot now, there’s been many instances of mayors and city councils at odds with their police forces and well… The police have the guns so it usually goes nowhere.
In the city I grew up in the police union ran the police chief out of town after two cops were caught doing drugs on duty in their cruzers. Police chief wanted to regularly drug test his police force saying “if we enforce these laws we better follow these laws.” Union took him to court said it violated their rights. He was stalked and harassed by his own police force. The police union won in court. I’d call that defying a direct order and the city yawned and moved on way back in 2007 when it happened.
Source: worked in local news and we ran multiple stories on this over the course of several months. The public was absolutely informed about it.