What is the city's position on the nonliability of a city's police chief of police for wrongful acts of misconduct?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Jones v. City of Los Angeles, 215 Cal.App.2d 155, 30 Cal.Rptr. 124 (Cal. App. 1963):
The city maintains that an analogous situation is the nonliability of the chief of police for wrongful acts of his subordinates not done at his direction. In such cases the relationship of respondeat superior between himself and his subordinates does not apply. The latter are viewed as public servants and not in the private service of the chief of police. (Michel v. Smith, (1922) 188 Cal. 199, 205 P. 113.)
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