So now even my three-star chiefs can't keep themselves out of the negative limelight.
Now, obviously, Ziggy was wrong. He violated established protocol on this one. The on-duty officers are in charge and what you do is comply with the orders. If he had done that, everyone would have been on their merry way (or, sitting off-duty in a department SUV for hours on end doing God-knows-what). I don't know what got into Ziggy expecting street cops to recognize him. Seriously, who the hell cares about the Chief of Community Affairs? This is a useless post I created to park this zero until his retirement. Is he really that delusional as to think anyone but those light-blue windbreaker wearing asskissers in his office at 1PP would know who he is? I myself even have trouble remembering this clown anymore these days, as his relevance to this department is incredibly minimal.
(And it's not like this is the first time Ziggy-the-jackass has gotten into confrontations with on-duty law enforcement officials. I seem to vaguely recall him getting a Secret Service firearm pointed at him for being an idiot inside the security perimeter of the Waldorf during a Presidential visit. I can't remember the specifics though, because quite frankly Ziggy just isn't that memorable of a person to recall much more about this.)
I do wonder what's next with this moron, perhaps dressing up in dirty jeans and a ripped up t-shirt, pushing a shopping cart full of garbage around in front of One Police Plaza, rambling delusional statements about racist conspiracies against him while waving his service weapon around in the air, and then screaming at the headquarters security staff for not "knowing who I am"? I wouldn't be surprised.
Of course, for political pandering reasons, obviously, I can't just go strip him of a star or two (or perhaps even bump this idiot back down to Inspector or Captain). It would be well-deserved, but politics is politics. I did, however, send him a bill for all that taxpayer funded fuel he's been wasting during his off-duty SUV adventures.