Mayor Overruled After He Dissolved Entire Police Force Following Dispute with His Wife
Municipal government is usually defined by procedure, paperwork, and painfully slow decision-making. Not in the small town of Cohutta, Georgia. In the span of a little over a week, the town went from a workplace mediation involving the mayor’s wife, to the firing of the entire police department, to an emergency public meeting that reinstated every officer almost as quickly as they had been dismissed.