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Well, the officer is being investigated for insubordination (or failure to obey orders) if I read the article correctly. The captain allegedly ordered the officer to not write tickets outside his assigned area, and the officer supposedly did so, catching the boss's mother. The captain then wrote the formal complaint on the officer. If this is true, the officer did disobey orders and will be disciplined. The IA should investigate the officer and the complaint. As a matter of fact, it has to investigate it to clear him (and the article makes it sound like that will happen with witnesses saying he was authorized to write tickets there).

Now, if I were the officer, I would probably file a formal complaint on the captain. The two charges would be interfering with justice (dismissing the ticket) and either harassment or retaliation. Of course, with working conditions like this, I can see why the officer might not want to rock the boat any worse. And, IA may decide to investigate the captain on their own as a result of the other investigation.

I would be very interested in how the stop went down (generally, a cop would not write the mother of another cop if she said something about her son, but traffic cops also don't let a whole lot of people off) and in why the ticket was dismissed by the judge. I can see a real scandal brewing on this about hwo tickets are handled by Houston Municipal Court judges.