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In many cities the mayor cannot fire the police chief. In my city in Texas, the city council can only fire the city attorney and the city manager. Of course, th
by buerkle 6y ago
In many cities the mayor cannot fire the police chief. In my city in Texas, the city council can only fire the city attorney and the city manager. Of course, the mayor and council can apply pressure to the city manager, but it's not as easy as "booted out by the mayor".
- csilverman 6y agoAnd in a lot of situations, the police chief can't even (permanently) get rid of bad cops, even if they want to. The fired officers sue with the backing of the union, and are often rehired. There was an NYT article a while ago—I'll see if I can find it—featuring a number of chiefs who described how they'd fired cops guilty of everything from small-time incompetence to horrific abuses of power. They were forced to rehire these idiots after lawsuits.