Smith v. State Department of Public Safety

I concur specially to point out that, the letters written by Smith had “the reasonable tendency to lead to [the] disruption [of the internal operation of the department].” Angle v. Dow, 822 F.Supp. 1530, 1540 (S.D.Ala. 1993). Captain Oscar David Kyles, Smith’s troop commander, testified that the comments in Smith’s letters created friction between Smith and the people involved in the investigation and could possibly have resulted in friction between the Highway Patrol Division and the AJBI division of the Department of Public Safety. In light of the need for discipline in law, enforcement…