LAPD Chief Tells Newsom Where He Can Stick His New Anti-ICE Law

This wasn’t an act of defiance for defiance’s sake. It was a professional judgment call — one that implicitly admits what Californians already know. Sacramento politicians live in a fantasy world where laws are written for applause, not consequences.

Police chiefs, meanwhile, live in the real world, where bad laws get people hurt.

Newsom can posture all he wants about “secret police” and authoritarian imagery, but even his own state’s largest police department isn’t buying it

When a law is so poorly conceived that enforcement would create chaos rather than prevent it, refusal isn’t radical — it’s responsible.

The irony is rich. Democrats constantly insist that police chiefs should have “discretion” and “local control. ” Until, of course, that discretion is used to ignore a progressive pet project.

Then suddenly it’s a problem.