{"id":221728,"date":"2026-06-17T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:14:14","slug":"lower-merion-township-police-union-passes-vote-of-no-confidence-in-its-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221728\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion Township police union passes vote of no confidence in its chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the results of that survey were never made public, Braun says they were \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for McGrath.\n<\/p>\n<p>But he says no noticeable changes were ever made. Instead, he says things have gotten worse, citing a recent instance of cheating during an entrance exam, which Action News\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/lower-merion-township-police-department-cheating-during-exam-lieutenant-suspended\/12115234\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on back in August.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike McGrath has single-handedly destroyed the integrity of the police department. Your officers deserve better,\u201d said Braun.\n<\/p>\n<p>Board of Commissioners President Todd Sinai says he has listened to the concerns, but as policy, the board does not discuss personnel matters.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Action News has reached out to the Lower Merion Police Department for a response to the vote, but we have not yet heard back.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the results of that survey were never made public, Braun says they were \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for McGrath. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2153,183,185,184,186,206,106],"class_list":["post-221728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-6abc","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-police","tag-police-accountability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}